Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [conj] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As everyone feasted themselves Mum went round with the drink , pouring out gin and whisky or stout as they preferred , making sure to test them all as she did so , while Dad and Fred did the same with the ale . |
| 2 | The last issue of Punch has a satisfactory collection of advertisements for cigarettes , beer and whisky and one or two bizarre items for the connoisseur — a two-page spread for Kimberly-Clark lavatory paper and a single colour page for ‘ the ultimate collection of Sportsman 's Knives ’ . |
| 3 | Stoutstroke dipped and bit and sliced and dug , building a huge triple-deck dam , the main section of which backed up the water in the North Burn for eighty paces ; not far off the record for the position I had chosen . |
| 4 | Like any over-populated , under-capitalised place , it could stink of smoke and shit and sick and sleep . |
| 5 | The emergence of ‘ race ’ and racism as political and educational issues and the consequent range of educational policy responses are outlined in the article by Ali Rattansi in this volume . |
| 6 | It 's hot in the kitchen , Bacon 's burning , now she 's used the same sort of thing , it 's hot in the kitchen Bacon 's burning , you too could use the play on words for the idea of bacon and burning and cooking and sizzling if you want to be really gruesome . |
| 7 | In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're living off beans and cheese and horse and ass-meat if they can pay for it , but even the price of dogs and cats is getting on the high side . |
| 9 | and it said about tin cans and aluminium and that and it was costing them less excuse me to use recycled you know er used aluminium |
| 10 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 11 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 12 | Among the former have been the national trends towards acceptance of credit accumulation and transfer and all that they imply ; among the latter have been the effect of a tightening national steer on undergraduate student numbers in particular subjects . |
| 13 | Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onion and garlic until soft but not coloured . |
| 14 | It is likely that , at a deep level , some link remains between mother and child as long as both of them are alive . |
| 15 | He played Henry V in February 1949 on his beloved BBC radio , the home of the Word and poetry and all that mattered . |
| 16 | Initially the road winds through woodlands of birch and alder and hazel and oak uncharacteristic of the harsh Sutherland terrain and alongside a dancing beck ; it then crosses an open moor between the buttresses of Quinag and the waters of Loch Cairnbawn . |
| 17 | I think that the hatred and suspicion that Catholic and Protestants have of each other in the North locks them in an Eastern-European time-warp . |
| 18 | Oh the one that sung in English and German and Spanish and French and Italian ? |
| 19 | In the mornings he worked in the kitchen while his aunt baked or cooked or sewed ; here in the evenings he absorbed the sense of the impact of new industries on an older more settled way of life which , much later , found its way into the stories and sketches of his best Welsh work , Rest and Unrest and Light and Twilight . |
| 20 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |
| 21 | This three-sided relief , and a second , the ‘ Boston Throne ’ , of the same form and character but different and inferior style , present unsolved problems of use , interpretation and indeed date which can not be discussed here . |
| 22 | From this and other types of experiment , it is beyond dispute that , even by the most rigid of the criteria used by mammalian psychologists , Drosophila show not merely habituation and sensitization but classical and operant conditioning based on visual , olfactory and even touch cues . |
| 23 | Jet-skied over to our studio in Walford to arrange the orchestral parts of ‘ Where The Fleets Have No Blame ’ about war and Imperialism and wife-beating and the launderette being full . |
| 24 | That 's where everyone 's different of course but erm I , I think it is , it is it is a factor that erm one can watch television or can listen to the radio or one can go for a walk or do all sorts of things as it were before noon and midnight but three or four in the morning , you know , when everything is |
| 25 | The modern convergence , which the contemporary sociology of culture embodies , is in fact an attempt to rework , from a particular set of interests , those general social and sociological ideas within which it has been possible to see communication , language and art as marginal and peripheral , or as at best secondary and derived social processes . |
| 26 | And four years of scrimping and saving and sweeping and polishing and loving that little house ; the house Gerry came home to . |
| 27 | In fact Professor Hayek is sufficiently honest to admit that the free society which we have seen grow in Europe since the Enlightenment has produced through the writings of Marx and Freud a set of values which if not renounced will destroy the civilisation itself ; namely the pursuit of egalitarianism at the collective level leading to the replacement of the market economy by the planned economy and the pursuit of freedom at the personal level leading to abandonment of traditional morality based on the concept of right and wrong and good and evil . |
| 28 | Cream the butter and sugar until pale and light . |
| 29 | Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy , then beat in the egg yolk . |
| 30 | Cream fat and sugar until light and fluffy , add egg and mix in . |