Example sentences of "and [vb past] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone laughed and clapped and the music started to play . |
| 2 | The vehicle had been stolen and recovered and the number plates have been . |
| 3 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 4 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 5 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 6 | It is envisaged that these arrangements shall remain in force until initial expressions of interest have been received and analysed and a decision taken regarding the handling of the next stage of the formal sale process . |
| 7 | They are well preserved and maintained and the rampart walks are accessible , giving interesting views into the town and out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 8 | ‘ One firework somehow went wrong and exploded and a fragment hit the baby . |
| 9 | Adolf Hitler 's ruthless occupation policy across Europe and the discovery of the concentration camps ensured that Germans were loathed and hated and the destruction they suffered was seen as deserved . |
| 10 | The revolver bucked and flared and the figure before him leaped and fell back with outflung arms . |
| 11 | The existing building has been carefully restored externally : the brickwork on the Holyrood Street elevation was cleaned and repaired and the render on the rear elevation was largely replaced and painted white . |
| 12 | Forests are destroyed , cattle reared and slaughtered and the land left infertile . |
| 13 | ‘ This played for at least 10 minutes and finished and the phone went dead . |
| 14 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 15 | Erm , that can not be done overnight , and it 's one that clearly needs to be looked at and , and managed and the care needs as stated in that management . |
| 16 | Women , because they were equated with nature , acquired a similar duality , being both repositories of natural laws to be revealed and understood AND the source of uncontrollable passion not tempered by reason and therefore dangerous . |
| 17 | The original game was abandoned when lock John Howe collapsed and died and a replay was arranged for Wednesday night . |
| 18 | By 5.30 pm the last barrowloads of whindust were laid and rolled and the job was done , apart from one set of bollards ( to stop vehicles ) which had still to be erected , and some tidying up of site . |
| 19 | Alex laughed and laughed and the crowd in the street ignored her laughter as more-to-be-pitied , ignored Derek 's flying as mad , bad and dangerously low . |
| 20 | Occasionally one could dispense with the bran and undersheet and purchase a tailored mattress ; likewise the sides could be padded and buttoned and a pillow provided . |
| 21 | She just shook her head and smiled but the boy said she was dedicated to God . |
| 22 | He waved his ID and smiled and the clerk did n't even jack in to check it . |
| 23 | Three helico , oh , or helicopters went over three times in the night I thought I was gon na raped and pillaged but no luck ! |
| 24 | Moisture ran from her brow as the fire flourished and crackled and the pressure inside her gathered fearful momentum . |
| 25 | She leant lazily against the sofa and they talked a little and ate and drank and the evening progressed and Robyn found that , astonishingly , she was enjoying herself , relaxing back against the sofa , stretching out her long legs in front of her , listening to the deep , magnetic timbre of his voice . |
| 26 | I do n't know how long I lay there , pushing , relaxing , pushing again as I gasped and groaned and the sweat ran steadily down my beck . |
| 27 | And I says let us see , and she 's and I says now keep back and I rung Don and explained and the doctor said Jean just ring for an ambulance . |