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

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1 How smart and glamorous they looked when they went off to London in the evenings , Dad in his suits and Eva with shawls and hats and expensive shoes and handbags .
2 Bigger hooks and baits and heavier indicators brought more success than anything else I had tried .
3 Towering two hundred foot-high statues of the Phoenix King and the Everqueen face each other across the mouth of the bay and around the harbour are other great statues of the Elf Gods : Asuryan , Lileath , Kurnous and Isha and many others .
4 Alone in the dining room — for Twomey had stopped softly jangling spoons and forks and fitting plates each to each , and gone , quietly as his shadow — Nicandra 's mind became a perfect blank .
5 Get the knives and forks and some bread and a few plates and take them next door ! 1 ’
6 I could just make out Tobermory , looking like an Anne Redpath painting , cubes of white and blue and primrose and Venetian red , the houses and shops strung out along the bay , tiny in the distance .
7 Mostly musicians spend their time jerking off in front of others and guitar and bass-playing readers are basically fans of the idea of that , but the truth is that it 's all individual — every neck on every guitar just has to feel a certain way .
8 Local man Ray Jenkins brought The Doid home first in just under and hour and 35 minutes , 15 minutes ahead of local cyclist Tim Davis and 22 minutes ahead of Mark Croasdale , the fastest runner .
9 He became managing director of the British Industries Fair ( 1954–6 ) , and chairman and managing director of the Chad Valley Toy Company ( 1956–8 ) .
10 They were advised that this was n't necessary , but a leading QC has since ruled this ‘ unlawful ’ because Walkinshaw , at the time , was chairman of both the BRDC and their trading subsidiary Silverstone Circuits Ltd and chairman and major shareholder of TWR .
11 Lots of toys and activities and various refreshments available .
12 Tall orders , indeed , for the hapless language tutor needing to prepare his/her lesson , choose materials and activities and appropriate methods without tight guidelines .
13 The Report emphasised the need for old industrial nations , e.g. UK , West Germany , to re-deploy capital and labour resources into technically advanced industries and activities as traditional manufactures ( textiles , ships , steel , etc. ) are replaced by LDC imports .
14 ‘ Yes , ’ whispered Fenella , and wished that Caspar had not used the word sucking , because it made you think about coldly evil creatures with grisly appetites , who might leap on to you and cling to you and sink teeth and claws and needle-sharp pincers into you and suck out your blood and your marrow and all your life juices …
15 His iron-clad limbs flailed in a scrum of fur and claws and wet teeth .
16 The electric light was burning and mixers and other equipment were making a steady hum .
17 ‘ They had a few minor cuts and bruises and slight shock .
18 Fillings used include natural fibres such as cashmere , lamb 's wool , horsehair and felt and synthetic materials like polyester .
19 An international study , published on Sept. 17 in the US New England Journal of Medicine , showed that the death rate among Iraqi children under the age of five had tripled after the Gulf war owing to a dramatic increase in disease and malnutrition and reduced access to health care .
20 The Lord of the Rings is a Wagnerian tale partly domesticated — its style reminiscent , as befits an Edwardian boy , of the Kipling who once wrote Rewards and Fairies and delighted children with Puck of Pook 's Hill .
21 Instead it has announced a ‘ strategic relationship ’ with Lotus , the first fruit of which is a mail gateway between Office and Notes and direct database support so that InForms can use data held in the Notes database .
22 The monumental Portland Building rose in the early 1950s and teaching and residential accommodation space grew rapidly in the 1960s and 70s to keep pace with the growing demand for university places .
23 Is it as I imagine — masses of oak trees and birds and secret glades haunted by the ghosts of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men ? ’
24 The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop .
25 Can you see oh and snails and little houses .
26 Keep to work and sanity and open air — to the cheerful and the matter of fact side of things .
27 The racism which manifests itself in employment is only one , albeit crucial , part of the general experience of discrimination and subordination that black people have had to confront in Britain .
28 , 30 , has a diploma in Food and Nutrition and considerable experience in the food industry from his previous positions as shift manager for the company and production manager for — a manufacturer of chocolate based breakfast products .
29 Just put a little sunfrock and T-shirt and that hat on , which I know she wo n't keep on .
30 He hung on to his memories , walking alone on the Geest , past the streets and houses and dark alleys where he had walked with her that winter .
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