Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [conj] [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 You go home and change and come back . ’
2 Horse manure , horse muck or just plain horse shit , depending on your susceptibilities , was a much needed and highly effective fertiliser for the allotments , and so from an early age a daily chore was to keep an eye open for droppings , grab your shovel and bucket and run out to scoop it up .
3 rising tyres and park and jump out and go into their rooms
4 Consultants say most children with cancer have a good chance of recovery , but this new service , costing £750,000 a year , aims to improve treatment and research and cut down on the time spent on the ward .
5 The worst decisions are made by bosses who are not fit , who never take exercise , who drink and smoke to excess and puff and pant around till midnight with overweight bellies .
6 How to use : Apply a thin layer to the face and neck and leave on for 10–15 minutes .
7 ‘ The humble man , ’ as Iris Murdoch winningly remarked in The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) , ‘ because he sees himself as nothing , can see other things as they are ’ , which sounds like a snug , confident view of humility , far removed from the self-lacerating anxieties about identity and self-image that mark out much of American fiction , or the radical scepticisms of Sartre and his disciples in post-war Paris .
8 Come and talk to experts on food preparation and hygiene and pick up useful leaflets from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food .
9 Having found out how much money the client has to spend , the producer must study the creative team 's script and storyboard and work out whether it can be made for the money available .
10 Whisk the eggs with a little water and some salt and pepper and pour over the vegetables .
11 There 's nothing but snow and ice and rock up there ! ’
12 And eventually I convinced her — or anyway caused her to throw up her hands in rage and dismissal and stamp off to her cabin .
13 The forces that we are dealing with are so far removed from what we regard as the material world that they will completely revolutionize physics and philosophy and bring about a profound change in humanity 's perception of reality .
14 The little hen worked all day getting moss and wood and bind up those
15 If evil stalks abroad they will stand and fight it , not turn and run or give in and live with it .
16 She wanted to turn tail and run and keep on running away from him , away from what she might discover , away from what could only break her heart , yet she knew that was impossible .
17 Roll out the dough on a floured surface to a 5mm/¼in thickness and stamp or cut out festive shapes ( see equipment , page 92 ) .
18 But replacing the still popular linked rectangular sink and drainer that fit over a base unit will mean fitting a new worksurface , and perhaps even a new base unit as well — a much more difficult task .
19 However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology .
20 The first is usually ignored and forgotten : it consists of farmers and peasants who live miles from anywhere in the largely inaccessible tangle of mountain and forest that make up much of the land area of the eastern end of the Central American isthmus .
21 The light has strengthened enough now to gather binoculars and telescope and start up the car for a look round my ‘ patch ’ .
22 She would go nightly into the bathroom in her skirt and blouse and come out in a cotton nightshirt .
23 She would go to her room and take off her skirt and blouse and lie down on the bed .
24 Choose a scheme that will tone in with your tablecloth and china or pick out one small colour detail and highlight it with your floral display .
25 ‘ We are an organisation of like-minded plump people who stand firm and say ‘ No ’ to demands to develop bulimia and anorexia and walk around weak , thin and dispirited .
26 Pour over the dry cider and water and bring up to the boil .
27 Their fate is being decided in the United Nations , by the committees which endlessly discuss and debate and churn out pieces of paper that nobody seems to read .
28 Mix together the mayonnaise and yogurt and pour over the vegetables .
29 Mix together the cream , eggs , yolk and sugar and pour over the pears .
30 Seems a naive little bitch : very anxious to meet her famous sister again , and kiss and make up some pathetic family squabble . ’
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