Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One old , old man , drunk and limp as old laundry but standing , yells at another old man who is sleeping with his head on the table . |
| 2 | Turn onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes until smooth . |
| 3 | The bodice was plain and ribbed to the waist , and hanging from two loops at the side was a fine red suede belt . |
| 4 | The window was full of magazines , lying edge to edge and hanging in yellowed cellophane wrappers from clothes-pegs : she was reminded of playing shop as a child , and lining up the tins of food and boxes of soap flakes and bags of flour , all in miniature . |
| 5 | They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark . |
| 6 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 7 | Combine the processes , or perm the same tresses more than once , and the result can be hair that 's dry , brittle and plagued by split ends . |
| 8 | In a country still torn between two rivals for sovereignty , and plagued by numerous uncommitted lords more interested in carving out kingdoms of their own , wise men observed their hospitable duties and opened their houses to all , but waited to examine credentials before opening their minds . |
| 9 | In the dim light the gold and strong colours glittered and glowed with rich intensity . |
| 10 | I clambered up into the loft , all sunlight and warmth and smelling of old and interesting books , and I decided to clear the place up a bit . |
| 11 | One body wallows on a barge of pillows , with warmly tousled gaze and smelling of fresh bread ( you 'll get no argument from me there : women are great ) ; the other body lies flat and cold on a table down whose eaves blood runs , like a sunset . |
| 12 | On very special nights he was allowed to stand beside her hot tub in a steamy bathroom heated by a small portable fire and smelling of sweet herbs . |
| 13 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 14 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |
| 15 | One young magistrate commented : ‘ An animal is stolen , killed , and consumed by half a dozen people in a single night — by morning not a vestige of the animal is to be found . ’ |
| 16 | Benjamin drew a distinction between storytelling , which he saw as , in its purest form , an oral-aural transaction between a narrator and an audience physically present to each other , and the novel , which is produced in one place by a solitary silent author , and consumed in another place by a solitary silent reader . |
| 17 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 18 | One type adopts and aspires to dominant middle class values and priorities . |
| 19 | A casualty officer there reported seeing ‘ quite a few ’ patients suffering from bites and stings in recent days . |
| 20 | As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug , he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube . |
| 21 | ‘ We can go and visit Senga and thaim in Southern Rhodesia . |
| 22 | However , he emerged convinced of the extent of severe , if quietly borne , rural poverty , caused above all by low pay and compounded by large families and diminishing work opportunities for wives . |
| 23 | Even without regulars Steve Mardenborough and Andy Toman there can be few excuses for such a disappointing performance in which Frank Gray 's side were outplayed and outfought by fellow strugglers . |
| 24 | There is however no existing policy , control development and change across this wide countryside . |
| 25 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 26 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |
| 27 | Then , on some mysterious cue , they emerge simultaneously from the soil and change into winged adults . |
| 28 | … and change into that subdirectory . |
| 29 | Once you 've made the choice , though , stick to it throughout the publication , do n't chop and change from one style to another . |
| 30 | Every year particular species arrive and disappear , and change in absolute and relative abundance . |