Example sentences of "and [vb past] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blue light , and silver and bronze , streamed and bounced and danced through tall windows . |
| 2 | After the initial fresco painting had dried , some areas requiring more detailed work were cut away , and refilled and recoloured with fresh wet plaster . |
| 3 | But then the streets had led one into another and twisted and turned and escaped into strange territories … |
| 4 | In London the kids looked fabulous ; they dressed and walked and talked like little gods . |
| 5 | One of Jay 's drawled phrases , as she pubbed and clubbed and waded through hung-over mornings of coffee and endless cigarettes , was ‘ I 'm a night-owl , honey . ’ |
| 6 | The ‘ dressing room ’ in each saloon was converted into a bathroom containing copper and silver-plated bath-tubs , wooden cased and lidded and plumbed for hot and cold water . |
| 7 | They whizzed and flew and darted into murky comers . |
| 8 | I worked abroad as a player for five years and watched and learned from various managers . |
| 9 | Jamila never closed the door , so Changez and I drank and looked through at our Jamila 's concentrating-so-hard profile , head bowed , as she read and sang and wrote in old school exercise books . |
| 10 | In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons . |
| 11 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |
| 12 | Opponents lucky enough to escape Malawi to live in exile have sometimes been hunted down and assassinated or abducted by Malawian agents in Zambia or Zimbabwe . |