Example sentences of "and [adj] and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corners of the mouth may be cracked and sore and the tongue unusually red . |
| 2 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |
| 3 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 4 | He says it 's come to my knowledge cos er they want this and that and the other . |
| 5 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 6 | Bitsy bitsy bitsy of this and that and the other . |
| 7 | He says and er , you got this and that and the other ! |
| 8 | Adam had put henna on his hair and that and the sun had turned it reddish-gold . |
| 9 | It was when the when the laird was out in India and that and the factor was stationed on the island . |
| 10 | We had a strong improvement in operating cash generation and that and the sale of brought net debt down to a low level . |
| 11 | But latterly you see there 's an awful lot of folks coming and buses on tours and that and the tourist trade on the Loch here 's busy you know . |
| 12 | So it 's the dog and that and the poppy . |
| 13 | The perfect evening would be sometime in August when the heat of the summer is distilled and concentrated and the ground in the pine forests has become brown and crackly , the tarmac on the roads quite soft . |
| 14 | The award is higher where the employer is found to have discriminated against the employee under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 , the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 and the Race Relations Act 1976. ( iv ) Special award Special awards are made where a dismissal relates to trade union membership . |
| 15 | Should the nobility refuse to cooperate , the monarchy would be left high and dry and the monarch himself would be unlikely to survive . |
| 16 | Kennel floors should be free of crevices and dry and the bedding should be disposed of daily . |
| 17 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 18 | When the atmosphere is hot and dry and the humidity low , skin also gets dehydrated . |
| 19 | Its body was hot and dry and the coat had lost its black lustre , so it stood up on end , pale brown and rumpled . |
| 20 | Huge and insidious and the Pope is behind it all . |
| 21 | The total work force equals 150 , it was noted that the workers all looked rather miserable and depressed and the working atmosphere was not at all pleasant . |
| 22 | She felt humiliated and depressed and the fact that Joanna and Ian seemed so close did nothing to lift her spirits . |
| 23 | I was a bit dubious at first , but I was hot and sticky and the water looked tempting . |
| 24 | John Burns takes up the story : ‘ The green is long and narrow and the approach shot has to be perfect . |
| 25 | I do n't want to see I I deeply deplore the divisions between left and right and the accentuation of often very phoney distinctions and mislabelling that goes on . |
| 26 | Shrewsbury , the Sorbonne and Pembroke College , Oxford , enabled me , or so I thought , to pass for white , although of my grandfathers one had been a railwayman on the London and Northwestern and the other a clerk in Bristol Gas Works . |
| 27 | Aelfwald was residing in the far north of his kingdom when George arrived in Northumbria in 786 and this and the association of his cult with Hexham seem to locate this Bernician prince essentially outside Deira . |
| 28 | The High Court ruled the closure plan unlawful and irrational and the Employment Select Committee slammed the government 's actions unacceptable . |
| 29 | But the day before it was cold and breezy and the day after it rained . |
| 30 | When I went to see the family , the mother was very rational and calm and the girl told me : ‘ there must be millions like me , Mrs Kazi . |