Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 2 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 3 | It would droop lower and lower until it rested on her knees , then she would clasp her knees with both hands and rock herself , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , moaning , her face hidden in her skid . |
| 4 | Oh well , I do n't know then , but I know she used to live in Spotter 's Wood cos erm they showed that , you see , she showed her this thing , a dog license and that and it said like , the dog and it had the dog 's history on it . |
| 5 | Calgary , took a train over the Rockies to Vancouver and then a cruise ship up to Alaska and , and back via Vancouver and you saw the erm ice floes er dropping off and er er seals and that , dolphins and that and it looked pretty good . |
| 6 | Its head twisted this way and that as it tried to reach my fingers with its chopping teeth . |
| 7 | The champagne tasted sharp and dry and it had lost its fizz . |
| 8 | The gesture was both intimate and impersonal and it reminded her of Maggie 's physical friendship that never grew into love . |
| 9 | She continued to lean against the gravestone , sick and shaking , her teeth chattering , her stomach as knotted and tormented as it had been in childbirth . |
| 10 | The original outline for settlement looks both feudal and foolish — foolish because the men of importance were to be ranged in a tidy hierarchy with outlandish titles like cacique and landgrave , and feudal because it rested on the assumption that the proprietors would get a permanent rental income from politically loyal and economically co-operative tenants . |
| 11 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 12 | She 'd be polite and charming if it killed her ! |
| 13 | Whereas the house was darkly masculine in its Victorian confidence , Miss Hatherby 's music room was so light and feminine that it seemed quite out of place in the general heaviness and gloom . |
| 14 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 15 | The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 , the sub committee bill of rights and seniority reform all helped to break the power of committee chairmen in the House of Representatives while other changes , including public and recorded voting , plus new rules decreeing open committee meetings , except in special circumstances , had the effect of making the House more open and accessible than it had ever been before . |
| 16 | The grass rolled in waves , glistening and gleaming as it undulated . |
| 17 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 18 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 19 | In fact , the response was so uniform and repetitious that it started to irritate him before long . |
| 20 | His shaggy , walrus moustache was deeper coloured , streaky , with irony grey still in it and it was brown and sodden where it dipped into his own , special , pint-size mug which had the word ‘ Father ’ executed on it in rosebuds . |
| 21 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 22 | ‘ It was warm and personal and it felt right for him , ’ says Marie . |
| 23 | This again met with a cool reception from the other five , first because it might foreclose the question of EEC enlargement , and second because it seemed to seek to push the EEC more in an intergovernmental direction . |
| 24 | It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been . |
| 25 | The campaign became increasingly bitter and rancorous as it progressed . |
| 26 | I know but you but you see if it came to be something big and serious and it went into the newspaper he would . |
| 27 | The September night was hot and humid but it did not perturb Constance as she struggled through the crowds of noisy , gesticulating passengers purposefully carrying cardboard boxes , mattresses and crates of chickens down the long platform . |
| 28 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 29 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 30 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |