Example sentences of "[noun] and [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He must have been radical in religion and he favoured English support for the cause of the Netherlands , possibly being used by Sir Francis Walsingham [ q.v. ] and Robert Dudley , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , to urge this policy on Burghley .
2 Many of the new hymn books include worship songs and they find widespread acceptance .
3 I do n't know enough actuarial work to be able to and what settlements they should receive , but our own experience is that it 's hard enough to round up pensioners to form an association and we embody deferred pensioners and they 're even harder .
4 After that Nellie and I became close friends and so did her Mum and my Dad .
5 You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it .
6 If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ?
7 If you use electricity to heat your water using the Domestic General Tariff and you install full Economy 7 Water Heating , you can have lashings of hot water at two thirds the cost or even less .
8 Tight denims clung to her legs and she wore knee-length leather boots .
9 In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being .
10 Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard .
11 We go to the track meets , the basketball matches and we select kids and we give those kids scholarships based on athletic merit .
12 He can handle that computer scrabble beautifully , Bobby and he played last night on his own and he scored one thousand , was it three hundred
13 Mr Turner was the BCR booking clerk at Craven Arms at the closure and he held various positions on other railways after that , rising to the position of stationmaster .
14 In the election of October 1974 , 25 per cent of the vote went to third-party candidates and they secured thirty-nine seats in the Commons .
15 And erm we went on an elephant on a safari and we looked for erm wild animals and we saw some rhinos , and that was quite good fun .
16 But I always wonder , as if a film had been taken from my eyes and I saw new worlds . ’
17 Elio de Angelis was his team-mate and he garnered such points as a deeply disappointing Lotus offered , winding up with a single point .
18 No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it .
19 In the meantime I have returned the draft Contract approved to the vendor 's solicitors providing for a reduced deposit of £2,600 instead of the full 10% deposit of £5,200 and I enclose one part of the Contract for signature by you both where indicated in pencil .
20 They are still a great club and they had several internationals out there . ’
21 Mowbray said : ‘ Every player wants to play for his home club and I have great memories of my Boro days .
22 So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system .
23 We had the American band , we had the horse guards from London we brought them all up on the train , the horses and the guards and we had wonderful times !
24 They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain .
25 The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today .
26 Our curriculum is based on the 5 – 14 programme and we place great emphasis on the teaching of Language , Mathematics and Science , within a wide and varied curriculum .
27 These are light aircraft and they mean one thing !
28 This proposal concerned the use of an AI Planning Aid to assist the major servicing of the aircraft and I believe more details of this will be given by Steve Docker in his talk this afternoon .
29 He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots .
30 She whispered it against the warmth of his neck and he released one hand to spear his fingers in her hair and tilt her face to his .
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