Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hungarian people are warm and friendly and very open to the Gospel . |
| 2 | ‘ What , are you there ? ’ said the voice below , full and clear but very low . |
| 3 | Kalchu had brewed some millet beer months ago to ferment out ready for today and it was sweet and clear and very strong . |
| 4 | ‘ Why did our large country , our wise and old and very large country , begin to think so small that we became a nation of losers , a country of discount shopkeepers content to bask in the glory of our heritage . ’ |
| 5 | We were cold and wet and very tired . |
| 6 | The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red . |
| 7 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |
| 8 | She was quiet and serious but very passionate underneath , Aunt Kit says , rather like Emily Brontë . |
| 9 | His wide smile was perfect and dazzling and very unnerving , ‘ But I do . |
| 10 | She was young and pretty and very nice indeed . |
| 11 | His cheek was warm and smooth and very desirable , and she gave in , unable to push him away when having him close was so much more delightful . |
| 12 | Some Minpins say they have seen his back legs , huge and black and very hairy , shaped like lions ' legs but ten times as big . |
| 13 | Liverpool Street station , in process of being rebuilt , was dirty and noisy and very large . |
| 14 | It was thick and heavy and very large across his narrow shoulders , but it was the finest jacket Frankie had ever seen , and it belonged to him . |
| 15 | She put an arm across her eyes and opened them beneath it , seeing him in such a way that he could never be certain whether she had looked or not , naked and hairy and black as she might have imagined , thick-set and arrogant and very ready — that much at least was certain — to take her without any further preamble . |
| 16 | It is like playing chess with a Martian : eerie and weird and very interesting . |
| 17 | It was long and wide and very dark , with many pillars . |
| 18 | Of the six employed women among the present forty , two were assessed as satisfied with housework , two as dissatisfied and two as very dissatisfied . |
| 19 | Her three rotor towers were taller and wider but very similar in construction and weight to those of the Buckau , thanks to the use of a new light aluminium alloy for their mantles . |
| 20 | Well , I think we 're talking here about hospitals in particular and not GP practice but we 're also saying that this is something which the enthusiastic and bright and very capable people we have in our health service are very keen on because they believe it will do better for their patients . |