Example sentences of "and [adj] and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned back towards the stands , jumped nimbly over the thirteenth and fourteenth and soared over the Chair with Sebastian V , Royal Stuart and Zongalero keeping him company and Spartan Missile starting to make ground from the rear . |
| 2 | Woolworths opened its first British shop in Liverpool 80 years ago , thrived on its ‘ nothing more than 6d ’ formula until the second world war , lumbered through the the 60s and 70s and came into the embrace of Mulcahy 's team with more than 1,000 outlets . |
| 3 | These three cases have to call into question the rights of parents , ignorant of the lives of the mentally handicapped in our society , and fearful and shocked by the discovery that they have a mentally handicapped child , to make decisions about the future of their handicapped children . |
| 4 | And then the monster looked very hurt and sad and stared at the floor . |
| 5 | Eva was excited and perplexed and intimidated by the crowd . |
| 6 | ‘ But the men were many and clever and shot at the eagles with arrows , and trapped them in nets and put them to death , one after another . |
| 7 | She looked young and pretty and relaxed for the first part of the evening until a ghastly sense of anti-climax set in when she realized that many of the young English guests had arrived well watered and rowdy after their coach trip , soon to become hideously drunk on the Ashley 's generous provision of champagne and wine , with a few dainty canapés and other elegant nibbles . |
| 8 | On discovery the following morning , the wives were extremely angry and frustrated and broke into the clubhouse , selected a club each and in groups of twos , threes and fours began to search for the Maharajah . |
| 9 | She was lean , dark-skinned , and ancient and wizened as the baccala , the salt cod pegged out in the harbour to dry . |
| 10 | This is not to be wondered at , for it is both huge and beautiful and possessed of the most breathtaking spire in all Christendom . |
| 11 | The seeds tended to be large and heavy and passed through the gut in 13 hours , the passage time inversely correlated with specific gravity of the seeds and had an indirect effect on the distance that seeds were dispersed away from the mother tree . |
| 12 | It was only the light from their own carriage lamps falling on the neglected driveway that told her they were approaching the house , and the salt smell that got stronger and stronger and seeped through the closed windows of the carriage . |
| 13 | Outstanding among these are 202 coloured drawings collected by John Talman in Italy between 1709 and 1717 and added to the great collection of architectural and ornament drawings amassed by himself and his father William , the Comptroller of the King 's Works . |
| 14 | The fog was yellow and acrid and bit at the back of the throat like acid . |
| 15 | The Nova comes with a map ; I drive through the neat little lanes and some straighter , faster roads , feeling even in those few miles that the place is too damn clean and twee and crowded after the West Highlands . |