Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 But these firms , as I said , they wanted this or that or the other and with er because of this fellow Mr he did nothing to get it out of his so it just happened , you know what I mean .
2 Wrangham writes that in his observations the mounter could be either older or younger than the partner and that approaches were made in situations commonly lacking in social tension .
3 There are towns and cities along our route which boast the best ale houses in the land , and whilst we can not linger we can , I am sure , find the time to slake a thirst or two that the ice and snow have worked up in us .
4 that the purpose of avoiding liability to taxation was not the purpose or one of the purposes for which the transfer or associated operations or any of them were effected ; or 2. that the transfer and any associated operations were bona fide commercial transactions and were not designed for the purpose of avoiding liability to taxation ( s741 ) .
5 And is not this medium exceedingly more rare and subtle than the air and exceedingly more elastic and active ?
6 She was startlingly beautiful , with proud elegant Kashmiri features and eyes so sensitive and expressive that the pain and humiliation she had suffered struck me , too , like a knife .
7 He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest .
8 The wind was blustery and cold and the wheelbarrow and Land Rover were wet with melting frost .
9 Fernando 's eyes were cold and expressionless once the horror and surprise had faded and as Ruth made pointless reminiscent remarks in a voice that was barely her own she saw him take a worried sidelong glance at his beautiful companion .
10 John remained silent and brooding while the Swede and the Australian played the hole .
11 GO ON GO ON GO ON … ’ their voices seemed as harsh and frightening as the sky and as chilly cold as the wind and whatever they said he could n't , he knew he could n't .
12 And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with .
13 Amabel smiled at her now as she sat by Gemma 's bedside tranquilly embroidering a cambric handkerchief , patient and beautiful as an angel and so terribly wronged .
14 History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all .
15 An ‘ orthopaedic ’ bed is just another way of describing a bed that is firmer and harder than the average and certainly is n't necessary for a lightweight child .
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