Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault . |
| 2 | And jolly pleased she was , too . |
| 3 | Many guests told the board 's chairman , Sir Thomas Thomson , that the veg had been overboiled , while this reporter encountered a high proportion of fat in his pork stew — and jolly tasty it was , too . |
| 4 | He had first met Sylvester during the early years of the war ; whilst in the Army he had sent him a letter ( now lost ) which Sylvester claims was one of the funniest and most brilliant he has ever received . |
| 5 | Compared to these regions the mountains and plains of central Spain were the despair of the traveller : ‘ the barest and most melancholy I ever beheld ’ . |
| 6 | ( Our babyfood range is one of the largest and most varied you can buy . ) |
| 7 | Herman Schrijver had Lesley Blanche [ best known for her The Wilder Shores of Love ] and Ivy and me to lunch , and most amusing it was . |
| 8 | Mr Mitra said Mrs Aquino ‘ has agreed to ( the referendum ) in principle , and most likely she will ask the senators to look at the proposal with an open mind ’ . |
| 9 | HAVING been among those fortunate enough to be in Australia for the World Cup — and most enjoyable it was — there was one aspect of the television coverage which was extremely irritating . |
| 10 | If comfort is important to you — and if it is n't now , it almost certainly will be at a later date — anchor pieces like sofas and large armchairs should be the best looking and most comfortable you can pay for and find . |
| 11 | From the window I could see that the block on the far side to the right had had most of its front ripped off , and Eliot commented how odd and rather disturbing it was to see a bath on an upper storey sticking out into the void , as in a surrealist picture . |
| 12 | Because the cells are sickle cell shaped and rather rigid they have difficulty passing through fine blood capillaries , and this results in the tissues not having enough oxygen , causing anaemia . |
| 13 | I followed the van for an hour and dead boring it was too . |
| 14 | And my leg 's been that sore and badly swollen I just do n't |
| 15 | On yet another occasion at Alexandra Park Race Day in 1898 , which was said to be ‘ infested with a crowd of scoundrels and ruffians of the worst race-course stamp ’ , when police arrested a pick-pocket ‘ the constables were surrounded by a crowd , who kicked them and brutally ill-treated them , and released the prisoner ’ . |
| 16 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 17 | And a home in Woolton with eight-foot walls round it and floodlights and padlocks on the gate and burglar alarms linked to the nearest police station and curtains so thick and so wide they never left any gaps even without Velcro . |
| 18 | Dona Teresa tells you that her husband Manoel came home from work sick , his knees shaking , his body weak and so tired he could barely swallow a few mouthfuls of dinner . |
| 19 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 20 | They were Spitfires , dead ahead and so close it was impossible , coming directly at him . |
| 21 | In many cases they are not able to remember anything at all about the earlier incidents and so all they have are those inner feelings with nothing to counteract them . |
| 22 | As you can see a pounds sign when you type Alt 156 you must already have the correct code page ( i.e. national character set loaded ) and so all you need is the command : KEYB UK |
| 23 | And so all he 's got to do , he ca n't spoil it . |
| 24 | So much I laid before Heather Mallender and so much I lay before you . |
| 25 | ‘ I do trust George completely ’ Annette went on ‘ I just have to with his work and so much he ca n't tell me but when he come back in that state I just could n't help … |
| 26 | Underneath those precisely tailored silk shirts was a man so rugged and so real he could steal your breath away — if you let him . |
| 27 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 28 | That is surely what most people want , and if only Mr Major had not taken Britain into the ERM and so impoverished them unnecessarily , they would be backing him in a clear majority now . |
| 29 | Her legs were bare to way above her knees and her legs felt cold and so thin they 'd hardly support her weight . |
| 30 | The bed was comfortable and so large you had to shout sweet nothings . |