Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [coord] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Penelope mounted further to the third floor where she and the other lodger had their rooms , she was relieved to hear the limpid notes of a recorder playing ‘ Brother James 's Air ’ . |
| 2 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We have n't got much , ’ my mother said when she read the letter , ‘ but we 've certainly got more than she or the other people in Mavhinje have . |
| 4 | There is no need for Nigel Lawson to resign , although he and the Prime Minister share responsibility for a disastrous lapse from Thatcherite principles . |
| 5 | He could not control his horse which finally bolted so he and the royal purveyor stayed drinking in Inverkeithing . |
| 6 | This difference between the sexes in civil status reflects two interacting factors : the tendency for women to marry men older than themselves and the differential life expectancy of men and women . |
| 7 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |
| 8 | Williams was grabbed and restrained by half a dozen regulars until he and the Prime brothers were ejected into Egham 's busy streets . |
| 9 | But a colleague said : ‘ Officially , David wo n't be cleared until he and the British Consul meet Saudi officials in the next 24 hours . |
| 10 | He sensed , rather than heard it , as if it and the all-pervading light were one and the same . |
| 11 | This is the man , remember , who walked out of Thatcher 's Cabinet because she and the then Trade Secretary , Leon Brittan , wanted helicopter-maker Westland to be acquired by Sikorsky of the US . |
| 12 | In 1982 they could desert Mr Schmidt for Mr Kohl because they and the Christian Democrats together had a majority in the Bundestag , the lower house . |
| 13 | It was also beginning to worry Coleman that while he and the whole NARCOG apparatus of government agents and informants were watching the Syrians , Syrian agents and probably many of the same informants were watching them . |
| 14 | In a sharply critical personal statement in the House of Commons on Nov. 13 he said that the so-called Madrid conditions for UK entry into the ERM , agreed by the European Council in June 1989 [ see pp. 36740-41 ] , had come into existence only after he and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , had made it clear that they could not continue in office unless a specific commitment to join the ERM was made , and he accused the Prime Minister of increasingly risking leading herself and others astray in matters of substance as well as of style . |
| 15 | Since Jim Henson 's sudden , untimely death his son Brian has taken over the company reins and continues the great tradition by trundling out Kermit as Bob Cratchit , Miss Piggy as Emily Cratchit , Fozzie Bear as Fozziwig , Rizzo The Rat as Himself and The Great Gonzo as narrator Mr Dickens . |
| 16 | For she and the other natives of these isles lived at a time before sin , it seemed to him , a happy time , but inferior in intelligence and humanity to the enlightened ideals of his kind . |
| 17 | Joining not only the same train as him but the same carriage twice could be dismissed as a coincidence . |
| 18 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 19 | As he now wistfully recalls , there were relatively few other supporters for the idea when he and the late David Gray , the ex-correspondent of The Guardian , who became ITF General Secretary , launched their Olympic campaign almost ten years before gold medals were again being presented to tennis players in Seoul in 1988 . |
| 20 | I shall take lectures from the hon. Gentleman when he and the Labour party support the Prevention of Terrorism ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1989 . |
| 21 | As he and the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West know , my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , in his personal capacity as Law Officer of the Crown and not as a Minister , came to the House to inform it how he intended to proceed . |
| 22 | Players want longer shorts for practical reasons as much as anything and the nostalgic look is simply another trend . |