Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] [coord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or the black and the cerise and all the jacquards |
| 2 | The posture is organised as carefully as the length of the red tags or the Sta-prest or the hair . |
| 3 | It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties . |
| 4 | sort of well we ca n't pay this that and the other and the thing that really gets me and , and , you know , I , I 've tried to reason it through so many times but top er top of these mums ' sort of shopping list is these disposable nappies |
| 5 | Even then , it was not free from disaster , and the central and the south-west towers collapsed in a storm of 1210 and had to be rebuilt . |
| 6 | Similarly , the inventor must be careful when discussing his invention with potential manufacturers and the like and the law of confidence is very important at this stage . |
| 7 | Tom did not much like the long train journey through Harrow and Northwood and Wembley down to Baker Street , and the changing and the waiting . |
| 8 | The charter party is the document made between the merchant and the bourgeois or the owner of the ship to make a voyage … |
| 9 | The Greek myths , war and peace and the great and the good . |
| 10 | And the long and the short of it I 'm afraid is , your mother 's gone . ’ |
| 11 | The black and the black and the black . |
| 12 | Unfortunately for this theory , the genes carrying tail-reduction in the two cases are quite different , and the Manx and the Bobtail bear only a superficial resemblance to one another . |
| 13 | But the rejoicing and the laughter which followed the tears were of equal importance , because they powered the erotic joy that was as important as the water falling from the sky . |
| 14 | I know the perfection of it all , but the ideal and the reality rarely match . |