Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was another butcher , you see , he bought the other cart and my father kept the best , this cart you 've got was the best cart , yeah . |
| 2 | I can still remember the humiliation I felt as I heard everyone laughing at me , and my brother laughing the loudest of all . |
| 3 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 4 | The tail wriggles and writhes in its mouth , or in its claws , and its liveliness preoccupies the would-be killer to such an extent that it hardly notices the rapidly escaping form of the rest of the lizard . |
| 5 | Worst of all , Christ Church Canterbury was burnt in 1011 and its archbishop murdered the following year after refusing to be ransomed . |
| 6 | Scotch Whisky accounts for over a third of UK food and drinks exports , and its contribution limited the total food and drink ( F&D ) trade deficit to £4 bn in 1991 . |
| 7 | Practitioners respect its low toxicity and its ability to withstand the enormous pressures generated in the back teeth . |
| 8 | Now that feudalism had collapsed , taking with it the traditional form of power , the great lairds had better make themselves rich , he believed , and land and its development offered the only way forward . |
| 9 | Colipase is secreted by the exocrine pancreas as the precursor , procolipase and its activation involves the tryptic cleavage of the Arg 5 -Gly 6 bond releasing an N terminal pentapeptide . |
| 10 | The question of Israel 's continuing refusal to let IAEA experts inspect its civilian nuclear industry was overshadowed by the Gulf crisis , and efforts to exclude South Africa because of its continuing apartheid policy and its unwillingness to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty had been pre-empted by the announcement on Sept. 27 that the South African government intended to sign the treaty in due course . |
| 11 | That 's one of the things , I think , that the Roman Catholics who hanker after the old Latin Mass and its ritual miss the most , and I sympathize with them in the sense that there is n't a great deal of mystery about most of the worship in most of our churches any more , and whilst it 's very right and proper for us to be very busy on practical matters , we must n't forget that there are very mysterious questions about our purpose here , about death and life , which are n't answered simply by doing things and being very busy — in fact , that may be a form of escapism — we need both , and I would hope that there will be room again in Christianity in Europe for worship to become something which speaks to the things I find mysterious , and in that respect I think the interest in spirituality and religious experience , in mysticism , in all those sort of areas about one 's personal religious life , and a lot of it not very orthodox or traditional . |
| 12 | The length of time taken to prepare the OED and its Supplement reflects the skilled , complex , and painstaking labour required in their composition . |
| 13 | They graded each household on the basis of the ability of the mother to recall the Seven Points to Remember and her ability to make the lobon-gur solution correctly . |
| 14 | Wilson-Kastner finds her ‘ high ’ Christology and her feminism to embody the same ideals . |
| 15 | In Ben Jonson 's famous comedy Bartholomew Fair , Trash the gingerbread seller plies her trade loudly and her name reflects the widespread adulteration of food . |
| 16 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 17 | It seemed to Frankie that she and her shadow filled the entire room . |
| 18 | Her father had been an equerry to the Queen and to King George VI before that ; and before her grandfather died in 1975 and her father became the Eighth Earl Spencer and moved to Althorp , the family had lived in a house on the Sandringham Estate . |
| 19 | The desk , Maureen said , was always kept locked and her father carried the only keys . |
| 20 | Cathy Adams and her family tell the human story behind the facts of drink-driving . |
| 21 | Their sunny main bedroom is the perfect home for older pieces of furniture , most of which have been handed down through the generations — Mary Jane 's mother made the tapestry fireguard and her great-grandmother made the beautiful bedspread |
| 22 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
| 23 | This is a vivid and funny production and their expertise makes the intricate puppetry go like a dream . |
| 24 | At the root of Orwell 's socialism was a belief in the decency of ordinary working people and their capacity to prevent the necessary centralization of a socialist economy from degenerating into totalitarianism . |
| 25 | Jonathan Ruthertord finds something strangely relevant for cultural politics in Britain in the 1990s in the cross-racial identifications of Lawrence of Arabia some seventy years before : ‘ His identification with the Arabs and their culture displaced the centered position of his identity as a white man . |
| 26 | Seeing their Lord defeated and their standard smashed the Dark Elves fell into despair . |
| 27 | Considerations on which they seem to draw include : how they construe their role as members of the police , which is itself informed by their interpretation of the organizational mandate of the force , by informal organizational requirements and occupational culture , and by local community expectations ; their knowledge of locale ; whether constables are able to resolve the momentary demands of the situation ; and their ability to handle the complex mix of law enforcement , local expectations , and the need for good public relations . |
| 28 | Because of high potential reproductive success and their effort to earn the parental care for seeking additional mates . |
| 29 | Until these underlying images of individual and society are recognized , and their study given the explicit attention it deserves , the significance of geographical knowledge for social practice will not be realized , nor the constraints it currently imposes overcome . |
| 30 | And their father became the happiest man in the whole kingdom . |