Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 2 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 3 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 4 | I won both the 100 and the 200 metres and achieved a great deal of satisfaction from the double . |
| 5 | I won both the 60 and 200 metres , but it was in the final event , the relay , that I received my greatest fillip . |
| 6 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 7 | If you put on the pink and rode to hounds like English gentlefolk these days , some wee feller with an Armalite would blow your head off . |
| 8 | Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ . |
| 9 | Here , however , you confront both the American and Japanese companies at their most aggressive and on familiar turf . |
| 10 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 11 | She switched off the data-analysis and scratched her snub nose . |
| 12 | He did not look up as she advanced down the long and beautiful room . |
| 13 | She put on the black and white dress , hesitating a moment as she looked at herself and thought , it 's too smart . |
| 14 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 15 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 16 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 17 | We investigated both the common and the unique elements of these various images . |
| 18 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 19 | By describing , for example , the histories of western psychological concepts of the Madonna-like good mother , who is present , sensitive , and , currently , stimulating , and the bad mother , who is the reverse , they map out the political and ideological origins and currencies these concepts have , beyond the biologized significance which traditional psychology gives them ( e.g. Adams 1983 , Hardyment 1983 , Riley 1983 , New and David 1985 , Urwin 1985 ) . |
| 20 | So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger . |
| 21 | ‘ Why do you think they brought in the Black and Tans ? |
| 22 | After some bartering they acquired both the nude and a splendid portrait of a servant girl for five hundred francs . |
| 23 | Unfortunately they say one thing , but they do exactly the opposite and whereas local authorities are in a position to in the main to provide rental accommodation , the government are stopping them . |
| 24 | He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy . |
| 25 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 26 | Eataine 's control of the straits of Lothern makes it unique in Ulthuan because it straddles both the Inner and Outer Kingdoms . |
| 27 | His North Sea assault gave the environmentalists a powerful and unique spokesman ; it made the government sit up and take notice ; and it speeded up the long and painful process of making the public aware that there was a very real problem to solve , which was going to involve personal sacrifices . |
| 28 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 29 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 30 | It kept out the cold and gave strength and comfort beyond its natural powers . |