Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [coord] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | There is no need for Nigel Lawson to resign , although he and the Prime Minister share responsibility for a disastrous lapse from Thatcherite principles . |
| 3 | He could not control his horse which finally bolted so he and the royal purveyor stayed drinking in Inverkeithing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He sensed , rather than heard it , as if it and the all-pervading light were one and the same . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Joining not only the same train as him but the same carriage twice could be dismissed as a coincidence . |
| 13 | I shall take lectures from the hon. Gentleman when he and the Labour party support the Prevention of Terrorism ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1989 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Players want longer shorts for practical reasons as much as anything and the nostalgic look is simply another trend . |