Example sentences of "and [adj] and [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable . |
2 | She feels that I should take my cod and coalfish , garfish and grayling , salmon and sole and even the shark steaks , and install them in the old deep freeze in the garage . |
3 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
4 | Dave is very much his own man — young and impulsive and finally the arbiter of his own convictions . |
5 | The Springvale Enterprise Park held out greater promise because it is mixed Catholic and Protestant and so the government might be willing to fund it . |
6 | And black and black and then the denim shirt . |
7 | Materialism is subtle and persuasive and easily the church can become trapped by it , becoming far weaker , more complacent and faint-hearted , voluntarily seduced into the ME-generation and the glorious gospel of self . |
8 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
9 | ‘ And green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath , Green as a dream and deep as death … ‘ |
10 | The house was well-kept and clean and even the garden looked well-kept , which her uncle said had been an awful mess before she came . |