Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easy to sit up here for hours , feeling fresh and invigorated and envying the local people their beautiful surroundings , but we were keen to press on and see a Stone Age burial chamber sited just off the path . |
| 2 | There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3 oral papillae , the distalmost of which is long with its free and widened and squared off . |
| 3 | She was X-rayed and diagnosed as suffering from pleurisy or pneumonia . |
| 4 | Platt , who has yet to make his Italian League debut for Juventus , said : ‘ My nose has been X-rayed and confirmed as broken , although I thought I was fit enough to play today . |
| 5 | But then the streets had led one into another and twisted and turned and escaped into strange territories … |
| 6 | She had no idea what to do , less than if her sister had become violent and raved and attacked her , or claimed to be Lady Hamilton . |
| 7 | Everyone in London looks pale , delicate and emaciated or suntanned and emaciated . |
| 8 | You with a mind full only of natural & unembarrassing thoughts , & of me , probably awoke early and remembered & rejoiced ; perhaps you had even prepared for it , & went happy walks , singing , garlanded . |
| 9 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 10 | So she learns to give all her stories happy endings and take her troubles to bed with her — after she has cooked , cleaned , washed and ironed and prepared for another day . |
| 11 | Orin looked sick and hugged and kissed her . |
| 12 | With the children , at the hospital , in Pediatrics where the light is never off , where the little victims whom we patiently deform lie drugged and lost and itching — with the children John is at his briskest . |
| 13 | She was busy and tired and underpaid and fed up . |
| 14 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 15 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 16 | And some people that 's where you 'll probably get mugged anyway , if you 're safe from well from one road cutting through the flats where all the empty flats are that is the point where they 'd probably get mugged and assaulted and raped and God knows what . |
| 17 | The Lord Lieutenant responded with his personal congratulations to all concerned and said that making a double presentation was a first for him too . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , he got sculpted and frescoed and painted and even woven into the bloody Bayeux tapestry dressed as a Norman soldier . |
| 19 | Miranda and Xanthe looked at her , and at her legs , which were pale and sheeny and crossed and held together , aslant to the chair , to one side of the café table , as if her wicker chair were seagirt rock and she a siren with a fish 's tail . |
| 20 | But I could never again imagine him doing something as spontaneously crazy , as aggressively , contemptuously fate-tempting and unleashed as running out across the frozen ice , arms out , laughing . |
| 21 | You get zapped and flogged and dumped on — by almost anybody 's standards , you have a really terrible time . |
| 22 | Its face was blunt and furred and screwed up as though about to burst into tears . |
| 23 | The pearls were artificial and when the string broke they got scattered and lost and forgotten about . |
| 24 | The doors to the kitchens seemed to be the originals , stripped and revarnished and rehung after being fitted with modern Yale locks . |
| 25 | Some parents achieve this by being consistently very strict while others are very caring and child-centred but establish clear boundaries for the child 's behaviour . |
| 26 | ‘ Not until you are useless and flayed and bent , ’ said the Robemaker softly and Nuadu knew that his thoughts had been heard with ease . |
| 27 | Vietnam 's foreign minister , Nguyen Co Thach , hemmed and hawed and told reporters that he had ‘ not yet accepted and not yet rejected ’ the conditions . |
| 28 | The chanting rose in volume and fell , syncopated and flowed , loved and released , flew and dived , teased and reassured and elevated and entranced and redeemed . |
| 29 | She was fair and frecKled and had a nice white smile . |
| 30 | Karina Gauvin , as Tuesday 's enfant terrible ( there are two casts , over four nights ) , has a voice bell-bright and focused and creates her havoc with a delightful gaucheness . |