Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [conj] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head lay harmlessly flattened into the grass , but the broken shaft pierced through Cynan 's tunic and shirt and stabbed and splintered against his ribs . |
| 2 | He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled . |
| 3 | But they all tightened their belts and after a great deal of grunting and squeezing and pulling and pushing they emerged , one by one , into the moonlit churchyard . |
| 4 | Might the consequence of that be , that people then go out and murder and steal and rape and fight wars , and do all , do all these kinds anti-social things ? |
| 5 | We 're willing to come forward and talk and try and do things . |
| 6 | On moonlight nights , we , the women , used to sit there and talk or sing and prepare and eat Pan ( betel leaf ) . |
| 7 | Then one day I was standing there on a dune top , straining against the pull of the wind in the kite , gripping and hauling and sensing and adjusting and twisting , when one of those twists became like a strangle around Esmerelda 's neck , and the idea was there . |
| 8 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 9 | You know , you went there and there was fiddling and singing and dancing and eating and drinking and this to Party time all the way . |
| 10 | In Noah 's day , if you go back to Noah 's day it was exactly the same now , is n't that what Jesus said justice in the days of Noah , so it will be in there somewhere , they were eating and drinking and marrying and doing all the things that you , you know , you and I do today is n't it ? |
| 11 | Much of this small industry was stagnant or declining , especially after the disruption and contraction that accompanied and followed the War of Independence . |
| 12 | The following were listed as the key points in economic construction during the coming decade and the eighth five-year plan period : strengthening agriculture ; strengthening the basic industries and infrastructure and reorganizing and transforming the processing industry ; and strengthening educational , scientific and technological undertakings . |
| 13 | He thought of himself , stunning them all by running and swimming and riding and shooting better than the lot of them , and them all eating their words and cheering and him being cool , man . |
| 14 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 15 | At Level One students are given a high degree of support and supervision when devising and implementing a programme of activities . |
| 16 | The mental functioning and range of capabilities at any age is related at least as much to expectation and habit as to age and physical condition , hence the underused capacity in almost any population at any time is considerable . |
| 17 | Slash and gash and carve and gnaw . |
| 18 | John Dearlove argues ‘ that they emphasise leadership and hierarchy and centralise and concentrate power into the hands of a small group of leading councillors and officers ’ ( Dearlove 1979:183 ) . |
| 19 | And I , I suspect that they 're on their way out because the way they leap and scream and bang and thump I should think that they , most of them have been on drugs . |
| 20 | It was a scurrilous attack on Khomeini that the Shah allowed to be published in an Iranian paper early in 1978 the led to the beginning of the apparently endless cycle of protest and suppression that undermined and destroyed the Shah . |
| 21 | The giants washed their breakfasts down with immense tankards of mead and ale and grunted and were inclined to be morose , which seemed to bear out Caspar 's remarks about them not being morning people . |
| 22 | Well let's go ask and roundabout and go and see if there 's ah any cheap things cos we 've been to see her again and |
| 23 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 24 | It aims to develop knowledge and skills in personal budgeting , consumer skills , health and fitness and identifying and responding to social needs in the local community . |
| 25 | The purpose of these days will be to join with others who are interested in finding out about the work of Cafod or Faith and Justice and to support and encourage those working with poverty both in our own diocese and in other parts of the world . |