Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 2 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
| 3 | She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment . |
| 4 | He does not observe or understand them as lessons in natural history , but knows their names and as much about their habits and life-history as he needs for his purpose . |
| 5 | He chattered at her , sleepy and indignant as she dived for him among the dirty linen , the old letters , a moth-eaten scarf . |
| 6 | The cello concerto swelling through the house , the briny tang of the scallops in their marinade , doors opening and closing as he searched for the missing due . |
| 7 | Just eighteen months previously Diana 's mother had given birth to John , a baby so badly deformed and sickly that he survived for only ten hours . |
| 8 | Born at Cardross , Dumbartonshire , he lost his hearing in infancy through illness and was admitted at the age of 8 into the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where he remained for seven years . |