Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |
| 2 | At this moment , she realised , all she felt was cold and stiff and tired and more than a little queasy . |
| 3 | Alongside the mirror Josie had hung out an evening gown , long and slinky and black as a panther . |
| 4 | Consideration , yes — anything less is to use one 's partner as a sexual object and less than human and a good deal of sexual dissonance between partners is a result of lack of this mutuality of feeling ; but to allow consideration of a partner 's pleasure to override the joy of sex for oneself is not only unfortunately genteel and polite , it may mean that the partner 's pleasure is actually diminished by one 's timorous courtesy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Probably because of the heat , Bishop Malduin 's face had assumed a motley of different colours , like a majuscule in a saint 's gospel-book : blue and pink and yellow and red and a little white , here and there . |
| 7 | 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 . |