Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for nearly seven years she looked like an old woman of eighty . |
| 2 | And for about five minutes they rave about how flattered they are , a little bemused but clearly touched . |
| 3 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 4 | She met his gaze , and for fully thirty seconds they looked at each other in silence . |
| 5 | One day , a tenant went out to work and found a hole in his garden ; hours later it was even bigger , and within yet more hours it became a twenty-foot pit . |
| 6 | This is quite common on newly imported Angelfish and in nearly all cases it cures itself with medication . |
| 7 | ‘ We were granted ownership of the building in March and in just three months we have been able to get it ready . ’ |
| 8 | And in rather chilly summers they eat less , so plants can get out of hand . |
| 9 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 10 | Used occasionally and in very small quantities they work wonders for chicken and fish stocks and soups , pizza fillings and sauces made from insufficiently ripe tomatoes . |
| 11 | At the beginning of exercise strength is often good , and then it steadily declines with increasing effort and , in severe cases , patients are weak all the time ; they ca n't see properly ; they see double ; their eyelids droop ; they ca n't hold their heads up ; they ca n't chew ; they ca n't swallow ; their arms and legs are weak ; they ca n't peg out the clothes on the washing line ; they ca n't walk upstairs , and in really severe cases they ca n't even breathe — unless they 're supported on life support machines they would die . |
| 12 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 13 | Within a year , however , the latter had returned to Gaul , and in somewhat mysterious circumstances he became bishop of Clermont in 471 . |
| 14 | Normally this rests in a make shift shed out the back beside the running lines to Fareham but during the recent works holiday and over more recent weekends it is pushed into the erecting shop where it was originally built 65 years ago . |
| 15 | The cold plunge was in the adjoining massage room , and on surprisingly weak legs he made his way there and gratefully dived into the plunge . |