Example sentences of "and [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Peter Yeo had to look reassuring and solid and a bit older , while Timothy Hutton could probably have come to work in striped organza without losing a single client . |
| 2 | An argument apparently broke out during these talks , and fierce fighting ensued in which Doe was shot and wounded and a total of 64 men , mostly from Doe 's contingent , were believed to have been killed . |
| 3 | For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal . |
| 4 | There was a long delay between the pupils ' arrival and the commencement of the displays and chanting , during which Miss Cackle and the teachers greeted friends and acquaintances , and the girls all stood to attention , being neat and well-behaved and a credit to the school . |
| 5 | I enjoyed all the workshops very much , because the knitters were keen and interested and a delight to teach . |
| 6 | It is disgusting and immoral and a disgrace . |
| 7 | ‘ Certainly it should be gentle and simple or a place of cold , airy silence . ’ |
| 8 | Johnny 's ring … old and valuable and a family heirloom . |
| 9 | And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with . |
| 10 | He will churn the butter if the kitchen is clean and tidy and a bowl of cream has been set out for him . |
| 11 | Behind the savage and futile blood-letting lies unimaginable suffering — families robbed of their loved ones , more than 33,000 injured and maimed and a generation of children brought up in the menacing shadow of the bomb and the bullet . |
| 12 | The wild bohemianism of the life at Kisling 's was stimulating and hectic but a drain on Modigliani 's limited energy and he was looking for a change in his life . |
| 13 | There is TV and audio and a heap of magazines . |
| 14 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 15 | I drove home in my Fiasco , which , apart from the faulty cooling system , the recurring malfunction with the brakes and power-steering and a tendency to list violently to the left , seems to be running fairly reliably at present . |
| 16 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 17 | To watch the ceaseless spinning for too long made you feel sick and dizzy and a bit out of step with everything else . |
| 18 | Why not invest in a few Units — new interchangeable separates in black , white , navy and red and a variety of shapes ? |
| 19 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 20 | From a detached perspective , it might therefore seem that the political viability of the USSR 's East European clients depends not only on greater economic and administrative competence on their part , but the opening up of communication channels between élite and mass and a narrowing of the gulf between state and society . |
| 21 | She felt as if she were suspended over a chasm between a past that was dark and terrifying and a future that inexorably beckoned . |
| 22 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |
| 23 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |
| 24 | The line-up includes top bands Prodigy , SL2 and Nu-Matic and a string of star DJs . |
| 25 | The Anarkali was dark and quiet and a lot of the light was coming from the candle between us . |
| 26 | What is important , however , is that the bias should be conscious and deliberate and a matter of corporate policy . |