Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | getting up and coughing and wheezing and all the rest of it and they actually slept very well last night . |
| 2 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
| 3 | She rose and plunged and rolled and staggered and behaved generally in a most frisky fashion . |
| 4 | One so that I can go up there and sit and read and erm sit and knit and er learn to type |
| 5 | My therapist , Elinor , a man called Graham Young , suspects that the only way forward for me emotionally is to fasten my fingers round your windpipe and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze until your face turns black … ’ |
| 6 | My therapist , Elinor , a man called Graham Young , suspects that the only way forward for me emotionally is to fasten my fingers round your windpipe and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze until your face turns black … ’ |
| 7 | And he would bring back goods from the market , such as meal , and sell or exchange that for what the Dalesfolk had brought . |
| 8 | He opened his eyes to be caught by the early morning sun , and to see that Bicker and the Myrcans were already awake and fixing breakfast . |
| 9 | They 'd stop and think and wonder and while they were doing that someone 's great boot would come down — crump — and that ‘ ud be the end of them … |
| 10 | John Kenny played with drama and panache a whole range of effects from his first entry , in which his breath metamorphosed into sound , to talking and singing while playing and producing chords . |
| 11 | They represented a solidity , a security , a stamp of survival on the unquiet experiments of two decades , a proof that two disparate spirits can wrestle and diverge and mingle and separate and remain distinct , without a loss of brightness , without a loss of self , without emasculation , submission , obligation . |
| 12 | She 'd lived and learned and lived and learned but then |
| 13 | He said to come upstairs to the flat only to fetch his jacket , and then they would go and eat and talk and maybe sit by the river . |
| 14 | Perhaps more than any other man in Canada , he has put poetry on the map — at the centre , indeed ; and fought and argued and worked demoniacally to preserve it there . |
| 15 | She sobbed and fought and screamed but Martin pinned her down with his new strength . |
| 16 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
| 17 | Well , he would just chop and chop and chop and chop |
| 18 | ‘ They failed to do so , ’ said Sherrin , ‘ and Michael fretted and fumed and explained that his immense following of fans would be mortified and he would be shamed . |
| 19 | I do n't like it when people take monies from people and forget or pretend that we are the faceless people . |
| 20 | He came through the door , and he was laughing , he took Rosalba in his arms and kissed her and they went down on to the sheepskin with soft cooing giggles and sucked and licked and flowed together in the nest like a mother cat and her kittens . |
| 21 | In a bedroom , its walls lined with posters of death and blue-eyed warriors , a hand begins to scratch and flick and swat and scratch and scratch . |
| 22 | For advanced courses , the next few years should be a time to consolidate the positive achievements of ACDP and to adjust and refine as necessary , but not to initiate radical change . |
| 23 | yeah all the frame work was sixty six , all morticed and tenoned and dowelled and there were |
| 24 | And soon it will catch me up and I 'll be bloodsuckled and toothpluckled and stonechuckled and chewed up into tiny pieces , and then the Spittler will spit me out in a cloud of smoke and that will be the end of me ! ’ |
| 25 | Everyone in London looks pale , delicate and emaciated or suntanned and emaciated . |
| 26 | We looked so thin on the ground , I thought we 'd sit and wait and see if everyone 's coming , but erm we 'll have to get started anyway . |
| 27 | There was an awkward silence between the three people then , while the music played and the dancers whooped and shouted and clapped and stamped . |
| 28 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 29 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 30 | It was only about twelve feet long a baby by local standards — but it hissed and barked and thrashed and stank until finally converted into a writhing sack of potatoes . |