Example sentences of "and [noun sg] and [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we left the remote mountains of the north and west and headed back towards the central highlands and Mount Kenya , the main objective of our visit . |
| 2 | She put down her needle and thread and went on , her voice calm with conviction , ‘ Of course we do not know what God plans for us , so we must be ready to accept His will in all things , but sometimes prayer alone will heal the one who is ill and this is the best way . ’ |
| 3 | She poured herself a gin and tonic and took up a position she had frequently occupied since the kidnap — standing by the lounge window , staring out into the garden , glass cupped in her right hand and cradled against her breast like a child , cigarette held aloft in her left hand , mouth half-open , eyes fixed intently on some distant and perhaps invisible object . |
| 4 | Sipping a gin and tonic and lighting up another Camel cigarette , he says : ‘ It 's almost impossible to find a decent barman in England . |
| 5 | You go home and change and come back . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | rising tyres and park and jump out and go into their rooms |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen — it 's not gasps and blood and falling about — that is n't what makes it death . |
| 10 | The bus , which was travelling towards Redcar left the road half a mile west of Dormanstown roundabout , hit a lamp-post and fence and ended up on its side in a ditch . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The chances are of course that you will not have time go into so much detail , but you can use different headlines to highlight specific aspects of the story , and if you are aware of the requirements of each type of magazine you will at least be able to include back-up material which is relevant to their subject and readership and to follow up with ideas for more in-depth coverage . |
| 13 | They ventured under its rays for breakfast and tea and lolled about in it during the afternoons . |
| 14 | How to use : Apply a thin layer to the face and neck and leave on for 10–15 minutes . |
| 15 | Come and talk to experts on food preparation and hygiene and pick up useful leaflets from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whisk the eggs with a little water and some salt and pepper and pour over the vegetables . |
| 18 | There 's nothing but snow and ice and rock up there ! ’ |
| 19 | And eventually I convinced her — or anyway caused her to throw up her hands in rage and dismissal and stamp off to her cabin . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To Greeves , the orthodox believer , he wrote in January 1930 , ‘ In spite of all my recent changes of view I am still inclined to think that you can only get what you call Christ out of the Gospels by picking and choosing and slurring over a good deal . ’ |
| 22 | The little hen worked all day getting moss and wood and bind up those |
| 23 | The BFA also regulates disputes between franchisor and franchisee and sets out their mutual obligations . |
| 24 | The development of steam engines owed a lot to the tin-mining industry , because as shafts went deeper below the surface , better means of lowering and raising men and ore and pumping out water taxed the brains of engineers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They completed a circular walk through the woods , tramping through leaves and bracken and ending up back at the minibus where Sybil announced it was time to go back to Conway House for lunch . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The light has strengthened enough now to gather binoculars and telescope and start up the car for a look round my ‘ patch ’ . |
| 29 | She would go nightly into the bathroom in her skirt and blouse and come out in a cotton nightshirt . |
| 30 | She would go to her room and take off her skirt and blouse and lie down on the bed . |