Example sentences of "and [adj] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastbourne won the 14th and 15th and halved the 16th , to win 3–2 . |
| 2 | His heart will have started to race as he looked left and right and saw the two main practice strips . |
| 3 | The CGA graphics are large and clear and use the basic colour capabilities of the CGA monitor very well . |
| 4 | She made rivers of melted butter in mountains of sweet potato , snacked on corn boiled in broth or greasy fish and bammy and discovered the thrilling sophistication of Coca-Cola . |
| 5 | Occasionally several males may form loose groups together , but whether they do this or not the essential point here is that it is the combined efforts of the females that control the herd , and rear and defend the young . |
| 6 | THE WORLD OF CHAS ADDAMS — ( Hamish Hamilton , £25 ) The original cartoons featuring Morticia and family — sophisticated and witty and given the big-screen treatment in this massive tome . |
| 7 | Many aviation memorials tend to be stones with plaques attached , stark and simple and reflecting the high cost of even a basic design . |
| 8 | Most aviation memorials tend to be stones with plaques attached , stark and simple and reflecting the high cost of even a basic design . |
| 9 | Pioneered Channel 4 's coverage of Women 's Football and developed and produced the outdoor adventure series ‘ Conquer the Arctic ’ for Channel 4 , ‘ Chris Evert 's Wimbledon Farewell ’ for the BBC and the two best selling Nick Faldo Golf Instructional videos . |
| 10 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 11 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 12 | To pay for this , Galileo was made to kneel and admit to being vain and ambitious and to abjure the Copernican doctrine as being wrong . |
| 13 | Q What 's black and shiny and sails the seven seas ? |
| 14 | I then counted three needles each to the right and left and transferred the next stitch to adjacent needles as well , leaving the empty needles in non-working position . |
| 15 | Then I skipped the part she says yes and goes and gets her things and all and pictured the two of us in the coach again . |
| 16 | After her five Wimbledon singles wins , she retired from lawn tennis at the age of twenty-one , and , turning her talents to golf , she became a semi-finalist at the Open Championship in 1898 and 1899 and won the British Women 's Golf Championship in 1904 at Troon . |
| 17 | The 27-year-old North-East man was at times impatient and ragged and displayed the expected ring rust from the ten-month lay-off he had had before the fight . |
| 18 | ‘ Come over here and live and take the whole house from me ? |
| 19 | Men are n't afraid to be soft , girly and foppish and celebrate the inner life . |
| 20 | Now she understood his failure to add two and two and make the obvious four ; it was due to Simon doctoring the facts . |
| 21 | He won the Open in 1887 and 1889 and designed the old Sunningdale course ( opened in 1901 ) and the Huntercombe course , in which he was a major shareholder . |
| 22 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 23 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 24 | The tenant may wish to dispense with 7.6.3 , 7.6.4 , 7.6.5 and 7.6.6 and add the following proviso to 7.6.2 : If for any reason the premises and all other relevant parts of the centre sufficient for the Tenant [ or any undertenant ] to carry on its [ or their ] normal trade and business including the means of access to the Premises and all essential services therein and thereto shall not be reinstated in accordance with the provisions of this clause as they were at the date of the relevant destruction or damage by the second anniversary of the date of the destruction or damage the Tenant may thereafter determine the Term by giving not less than one month 's notice to the Landlord and upon expiry of such notice the Term shall cease but without prejudice to the claim of either party for any earlier breach of covenant by the other This will doubtless be resisted by the landlord who will wish to have the unilateral right to terminate . |
| 25 | THEY were fresh-faced and cute and heralded the Swinging Sixties . |