Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
| 2 | David Walton , 40 , who received the aircraft today from Air Commodore David Hurrell , said : ‘ The likelihood of the aircraft taking to the sky again is fairly remote but it will be preserved in its current condition and who knows what the long term future holds . |
| 3 | So it 's a resounding happy birthday all round , and who knows what the next twenty one years will hold . |
| 4 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 5 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 6 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 7 | She 's going she 's looking at you and you go , come here , you take a step further and she gives you a dirty look and then she waits until you 're that close and then she jumps ! |
| 8 | ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring . |
| 9 | Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics . |
| 10 | Bacchus song loves Bacchus and Bacchus loves songs , says Milton , and he gives us a whole stream of classical precedents , Ovid , Anacreon , Pinder , the whole lot to show that a poet naturally will love the good life . |
| 11 | No finer example of this can be seen than Castle Acre Priory , 1935 , in which the gaunt power of the medieval ruins is starkly silhouetted against the sky , and he permits himself a rare range of tonal contrast . |
| 12 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 13 | And it tells you the normal plug rating for a particular appliance . |
| 14 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 15 | and it costs us a bloody bomb ! |
| 16 | And it gives one a peaceful feeling within |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never been quite sure what the attraction is except that the job is n't boring and it gives me a private life . ’ |
| 18 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 19 | The same goes for O one of a gram for example , toxin and it gives you a hundred thousand er as as I 've indicated here , there 's a , a wide range for the potency . |
| 20 | It makes you think about what you are listening to and it gives you an active role in the lecture process . |
| 21 | Boss Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ We have two home games after Southampton and it gives us a great chance to cement a top six place . ’ |
| 22 | And it gives us the right answers . |