Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] it [verb] " 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 | The champagne tasted sharp and dry and it had lost its fizz . |
| 4 | The gesture was both intimate and impersonal and it reminded her of Maggie 's physical friendship that never grew into love . |
| 5 | This process can be painful and revealing but it leads to greater self-awareness — the first step to unambiguous communication . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This seems quite antiquated and unnecessary but it seems to appear in virtually all commercial leases and landlords ' solicitors seem reluctant to start a new trend by agreeing to its deletion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The heartache and suffering over the centuries has made them tough and strong and it 's been a slow evolution . |
| 10 | The offence this may cause is attributed to the fact that it ‘ crosses the line between private and public since it makes available … some sexual act of a private kind … for a voyeuristic interest ’ . |
| 11 | The new style is bright and crisp and it reflects the thorough , professional approach adopted by the college . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Literally , and then you have to sit there with this cream on , and it 's all very fiddly and messy and it smells . |
| 14 | She 'd be polite and charming if it killed her ! |
| 15 | But like those marriages , it should at least be fast and exciting while it lasts . |
| 16 | Baffling because it is all so new and strange , and exciting because it brings the first hint , the first distant suggestion that for women an independent economic identity is possible . |
| 17 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 18 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A kitchen-dining room is ideal for a family ; it 's cosy , convenient and economical since it saves heating another room . |
| 21 | Caroline Little for family reasons had to give up many of her recreational classes , but started a class for stroke victims which has provided so beneficial and popular that it has now been recognised in an official capacity . |
| 22 | The cost of educating our children is below the national recoupment figure , and that I think is good , right and proper and it reflects the many years of excellent Conservative administration that Oxfordshire has enjoyed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The grass rolled in waves , glistening and gleaming as it undulated . |
| 26 | It is black and gleaming and it gives his wife Meriel the willies . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In fact , the response was so uniform and repetitious that it started to irritate him before long . |
| 29 | As he rushes hither and thither , his note-books become crammed with an amazing collection of miscellaneous information which is so diverse and uneven that it gives colour to and so in a way explains Robert Lowie 's famous definition of culture as a ‘ thing of shreds and patches ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |