Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] and [art] [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 I was out of my depth : she was a lot heavier than me and a bloody sight more determined .
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 Williams was grabbed and restrained by half a dozen regulars until he and the Prime brothers were ejected into Egham 's busy streets .
7 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 .
8 He sensed , rather than heard it , as if it and the all-pervading light were one and the same .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Wearing his very best clothes and shoes , he had played all alone in the pouring rain while she and a balding detective discussed important business behind the steamy windows of a police car .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 We are as strong as they and a great deal wiser , ’ which , as Boswell points out , ‘ was an assault upon one of Lord Monboddo 's capital dogmas , and I was afraid there would have been a violent altercation in the very close , before we got into the house ’ .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 I shall take lectures from the hon. Gentleman when he and the Labour party support the Prevention of Terrorism ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1989 .
19 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 .
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