Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I trundled along the valley , keeping the curve of the plateau to my left and watching the distant Land Rover , which seemed to be going too far south . |
| 2 | She lay , half asleep , listening to the blustering wind outside her shutters , and then , satisfied by the sound of steps somewhere outside , and the decisive snap as someone shut and latched the loose door , she went to sleep again . |
| 3 | Around her squealed and shouted the sixty or so pupils of Thrush Green Church of England Primary School . |
| 4 | Under the leadership of the party the working masses constructed the material base for socialism , replaced primitive private farming with collectivized agriculture , and carried through an industrialization programme which astonished and alarmed the bourgeois world . |
| 5 | The first of the five villages of the Cinque Terre , Monterosso al Mare is the largest and the most accessible of them all and has the finest hotels and restaurants . |
| 6 | And for a special treat after a special day we recommend you put the car away , order up something tasty and drink the finest the Rhineland grapes can produce . |
| 7 | Sonia Heywood , assistant director ( child care ) for Wiltshire SSD , expressed some of her staff 's worries about getting it wrong and mishandling the whole issue . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's so funny ? ’ asked Jenny Dale , sitting to his left and piloting the single-engined , low-winged plane in her usual deft manner across the turbulent , cumulus-covered sky . |
| 9 | Purvis saw it all and followed the wretched pair to where they buried the body . |
| 10 | When people in the 60s decided to get away from it all and live the good life in the Cotswolds they were treading a well-worn path . |
| 11 | You could get quite a lot from this book , either by reading it as a whole book , or by dipping into it either as you need to know something , or simply keeping it handy and reading the occasional topic when you get bored . |
| 12 | My boss kept his cool and got the four . |
| 13 | Arthur wandered the streets and ate pasta on his own and learned the intricate history of Christian heresy in an Italian-language library . |
| 14 | She pushed it open and entered the front hall . |
| 15 | She became desperate to break into this institutional twaddle , so when asked what she thought , she agreed enthusiastically , in order to keep them quiet and terminate the interminable . |
| 16 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |