Example sentences of "and [adj] [coord] a " 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 | The barracks known as Allenby — though not to the locals — ; were pre-1939 Wehrmacht buildings , very solid and spacious but a little worn by now . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal . |
| 5 | It 's a valve-driven box with four separate switchable channels — jazz , funk , blues and rock — and on top of that you have the usual gain and master volume controls , EQ for treble , mid and bass and a switchable mid-boost . |
| 6 | Cousteau , barely in his twenties , was a happy-go-lucky youngster , always eager and willing and a more than competent seaman . |
| 7 | Despite that , she married Simon Dale , an architect who was losing his sight , a man who was ‘ interesting and different and a very good architect . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They will need to speak fluent English and French and a little Flemish . |
| 10 | It was plain and English and a little too bland and unseasoned for Sara 's travelled palate . |
| 11 | I enjoyed all the workshops very much , because the knitters were keen and interested and a delight to teach . |
| 12 | It is disgusting and immoral and a disgrace . |
| 13 | People buy in three different modes , visual and audible or a connective touchy , feel mode , if he wants to be touchy feeling you give it to him . |
| 14 | She had her spirit of adventure and desire for romance and excitement fulfilled becoming less superficial and pretentious and a more mature person . |
| 15 | Coryza may be acrid and purulent or a bloody discharge . |
| 16 | ‘ Certainly it should be gentle and simple or a place of cold , airy silence . ’ |
| 17 | There may be dry , teasing winter coughs ; dry , rough and hoarse or a loose cough with copious mucus worse ( < ) lying , in a warm room , better ( > ) in the open air . |
| 18 | Johnny 's ring … old and valuable and a family heirloom . |
| 19 | White or earth colours — tobaccos , umbers , sand , sludgy green , pine green — are particularly appropriate with food , while blue and white , green and white , red or pink and white and a sunny chrome yellow , always look good and fresh . |
| 20 | When knitting the water-lily pattern as an all-over design , I actually like black as the background and white or a pastel colour for the contrast , using the paler colour for the welts and details , as illustrated . |
| 21 | You are sensitive , you are eager , you try to be honest , you manage to be both your age and natural and a little priggish and old-fashioned at the same time . |
| 22 | Obviously the proposer and seconder of this motion do not remember what this scheme meant to people in the forties when it was demeaning and degrading and a great intrusion into their private lives and I do feel Mr Mayor that as it was a a it was demeaning and degrading in the forties it will be no less demeaning and degrading in the nineties . |
| 23 | Well what they 're doing actually it 's quite right because they 're they tended to play the long ball to Steve Walsh so that he could head it down and what they 're doing actually they 've got two four foot eight forwards in Jochim and Speedy and a nine foot seven winger Ormanroyd |
| 24 | What he wanted was the main force , mobile and sudden and a prize fit for his steel . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat . |
| 27 | He will churn the butter if the kitchen is clean and tidy and a bowl of cream has been set out for him . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Colour was generally white , a few are blue , green , salmon and purple and a few were in two colours . |