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

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1 Damian said unsteadily , and bent his head to kiss her mouth with slow , sensual desire , and that was how they made love , their bodies moving as slowly but surely towards that ecstasy as that initial kiss did , until Rachel , this time , was breathless and incoherent , delirious with pleasure as she reached climax through his strokes and expertise and unbelievably exciting lovemaking .
2 Although the orang-utan of Sumatra and Borneo is primarily a fruit-eater , it takes a wide variety of foods including leaves , young shoots , flowers , pith and bark and occasionally mineral-rich soil , insects and possibly small vertebrates and birds eggs .
3 So he had gone to that other place where , so Mrs Parvis said , red and orange fires burned day and night , so hot that glass and brick and even solid rock melted to liquid .
4 There followed regular contact between student and professor and more published work by Nietzsche on Greek subjects : besides reviews , there were articles on the lyric poet Simonides , the historian of philosophy Diogenes Laertius and the anonymous quasi-biographical piece known as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod .
5 The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music .
6 ( Other aspects of the discipline , such as methodology and equipment and even physical location on the campus , can provide subsidiary means of self-definition . )
7 The public were curious to know what was going on , often trying to get their reflection in the mirror in order to appear on television , and then there was the problem of health and safety and too much camera equipment in a confined space , and then the light was n't quite right …
8 Because , you know , I 'd never been skiing before , so I went out all togged up , with like , my tights sort of , like , you know , thermal tights and you know , pair of track suits , sort of bottoms , plus plastic overtop and then I had like , sort of thermal top on , plus the that 's a sort of like , T-shirt , plus the polo-neck plus a jumper , plus a sort of like erm , a sort of sheepskin waistcoat and , and jacket and then this plastic thing over the top .
9 These features were accompanied by pericellular fibrosis and cholestasis but little associated inflammation .
10 In acute infections , there is anaemia and lassitude and occasionally respiratory embarrassment .
11 Figure 17–2 shows how these advantages should be compared with the disadvantage of the deadweight burden caused by the failure to equate marginal cost and price and hence marginal cost and marginal benefit .
12 Low-grade malnutrition ( slightly fewer vitamins and minerals than you need ; too much fat and sugar and too little fibre ) can show itself in small , insidious ways .
13 I still wear little make-up , just a bit of lipstick and mascara and perhaps some eyeshadow .
14 She remembered everything at once then , in one big bright colourful blurt of sound and light and music and immensely accelerated action .
15 Queasy from 40ml and smack and so much wine , his stench makes me want to vomit .
16 At the SCG I was impressed with the way the South African pace bowlers tightened line and length after somewhat loose opening period of play no doubt caused by first-time tension and over-eagerness to do well for the folks back home .
17 The MCC voted by a large majority to retain termly modules for reasons including greater flexibility in module size and length and more frequent feedback to students on their progress .
18 In addition , my practice is participating in a scheme that involves fundholding for the whole range of hospital and community services with the exception of accident and emergency and sexually transmitted disease .
19 The land speculator operates in two different ways , either using entrepreneurial initiative , negotiating time and ability but relatively little capital ; or by investing on a long-term basis with the ultimate possibility of substantial capital growth .
20 Most large corporations have dedicated staff responsible for organizing and controlling business travel and expenditure and most major travel companies have departments which deal exclusively with the business traveller .
21 It also has serious implications for the professional health of the Authority and its schools , since the belief that getting on is merely a matter of saying and doing what significant others wish to hear and see produces not just disaffection and cynicism but also unthinking conformity and the loss of The professional analysis and debate which are essential to educational progress .
22 Polythene had also been laid between carpets and solid , tiled , flooring which of course led to sweating and dampness and more black mould .
23 Health and Finance and possibly National Power .
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