Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exact prices and postage and packing charges will be given on request . |
| 2 | It was concluded that the media had no business either relaying bad news about government and party policies and activities or suggesting that alternative measures might be better . |
| 3 | Gary broke a bone in his back , split his lip and sustained several cuts and bruises when trying to douse a blaze started by vandals in the quiet County Armagh village of Laurelvale . |
| 4 | The fact is that such breakages are very uncommon , and that the quoted figure of 2,000 tank-related accidents a year includes things like ruptures and hernias while trying to lift them … |
| 5 | This intensive programming involves careful observation of the baby 's cues on urination and defecation and linking these to the presence of a potty . |
| 6 | The author should imagine at his elbow a Querying Counsel criticising and cross-examining every phrase and sentence and pouncing on every lapse into " jungle " English or common jargon . |
| 7 | The relationship between language use and teaching and learning in schools is an integral part of many contexts and processes in both initial and in-service teacher education courses in this School of Education . |
| 8 | I fell in love with a deaf and dumb man and I planned to spend my life earning and loving and teaching and praying , all on his behalf . |
| 9 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 10 | People are realizing that you just can not expect much of them and that one way of improving local lives is to get together in local communities and groups and participating wider area networks and in such coalitions of people , th th they manage to keep some sort of community spirit and activity going . |
| 11 | Module timetable confirming the agreed times and groups and detailing which rooms have been booked . |
| 12 | By the reign of Richard I the industry was so important to the nation that the ‘ Stannary ’ towns ( from the Latin stannum for tin ) received their own charter , awarding them their own courts and parliament and exempting them from ordinary taxes . |
| 13 | 3 Do n't repeat wrong sounds and forms when correcting them . |
| 14 | We were wearing wetsuits , helmets and lamps and carrying ex-army ammunition boxes that were watertight and into which had gone the cameras and flashguns we were going to use to photograph the mine . |
| 15 | Except for an entitlement to a police car and driver when attending official functions , they receive no formal allowances . |
| 16 | They clambered to respectability by continually putting their own house in order , and in a way the battle to bring in not only the middle classes but the religious , the political , and the serious-minded took far more energy and ingenuity than winning that initial mass audience . |
| 17 | Standard machines measure 600 mm ( 23⅝in ) deep by 595 mm ( 23⅜in ) wide , to fit between units and can be stacked one above the other , but , unless you have a separate utility room , that does not leave much space nearby for storing laundry supplies and accessories or setting down the just cleaned laundry . |
| 18 | There are mixed doubles all afternoon , and Scrabble and acting games and trying on trunkloads of period clothes all evening . |
| 19 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 20 | I love honesty and freedom and giving . |
| 21 | Next comes the oral trauma associated with the coming of weaning and agriculture and resulting in polytheistic religion . |
| 22 | However , there is a fundamental difference between pooling sovereignty on trade and agriculture and pooling economic sovereignty . |
| 23 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 24 | It 's got a bad stigma to it and that 's what 's the main problem with it , y'know , this junkie in a dirty squat with a needle hanging out of his arm and OD'ing and dealing on his doorstep and everything and looking like the pictures you see of people falling to bits , but for me personally it 's not like that , y'know , I do try to conduct a normal law-abiding life . |
| 25 | IN THE tunnel between Gloucester Road and Earls Court , the train-supposedly bound for Richmond-has come to a halt : 25 minutes pass , a hot , cross silence broken only by the coughs and tuts and groans and rattling Evening Standards of disgruntled passengers ( sorry , ‘ customers ’ ; London Underground now wishes to refer to the sad user of the subterranean network as a ‘ customer , ’ dictionary definition : n. one who buys ) . |
| 26 | He was full of minor nervous habits : an eye-twitch , a frequent snapping of the thumbs and fingers when reading or in conversation , a flicking of the tongue before starting a speech , and , in a rather different category , an addiction to putting objects , particularly books , but matches , pipes , paper knives and almost anything else as well , to his nostrils and audibly sniffing at them . |
| 27 | At meetings of the Anonymous Fellowships , continued recovery is sustained by sharing one 's own experience , strength and hope and hearing others share how life was , what happened and how life is now . |
| 28 | Sipping a gin and tonic and lighting up another Camel cigarette , he says : ‘ It 's almost impossible to find a decent barman in England . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's no use playing two wingers like Morrissey and Nevin and asking them to do the defensive bit for you . |
| 30 | For example , an Orc Boar Boy is cavalry wearing light armour and shield and riding a war boar , his save is therefore 3+ ( 4+ with a further +1 on account of the boar ) . |