Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked what they were : creatures , Spirits of Trees , that had emerged from the ancient Wolfwood from a long , long sleep and who were alive and alert and completely without pity towards their enemies … |
| 2 | His body was up against hers , close and strong and totally in control . |
| 3 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 4 | The aunts had sat half-veiled in the evening , talking in Arabic and French and sometimes in English for me , but I had n't listened . |
| 5 | Manucci , who was employed in Dara Shukoh 's artillery , portrays his patron as a flawed hero , brave and generous but constantly in danger of being outwitted by his wily opponents : |
| 6 | The days of the popularity of black and white etchings waned at the turn of this century : the demand was filled by photographic views , first in black and white and then in colour . |
| 7 | He had been dismayed , almost horrified , when she had opened the front door a crack and displayed herself pale and ill and obviously in need of cherishing . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |
| 9 | The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair . |
| 10 | We had a flood of cases : buildings of all types and sizes , of all styles and ages , but with one thing in common — they were disused and decaying and evidently in need of a new owner or a new use , as their present owners were being decidedly neglectful . |
| 11 | Cranmer had no desire to make the Anglican Church national in doctrine and ritual but only in jurisdiction . |
| 12 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 13 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 14 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |