Example sentences of "and [noun] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now fear and horror are my only companions . |
| 2 | ‘ But you are the Cardinal 's nephew and Roger is your good friend . |
| 3 | And Almsmead was her own dream come true , a medieval castle in pale , newly-quarried stone on the outside , spacious and high-ceilinged and fitted with every modern gadgetry within . |
| 4 | Chatteris Town 's 6–1 home win over Harwich and Parkeston was their biggest win in the League since the 1976–77 season when Clacton Town were beaten 7–1 at West Street . |
| 5 | For a moment longer , raw gaze and taste and smell were his sole sources of wisdom . |
| 6 | The fashionable and becoming gown and girdle were her only concessions to style and conformity . |
| 7 | For Kristian is still on his Todd romantically — and Marci is his 65-year-old grannie . |
| 8 | H. J. Eysenck proposed that a fundamental difference between introverts and extraverts is their chronic levels of arousal , introverts having generally higher levels of arousal than extraverts . |
| 9 | ‘ And Lilian is my right-hand man . |
| 10 | Collinson had been told by John Bartram of his son 's artistic talent : ‘ Botany and drawing are his darling delight … |
| 11 | Mondays and Thursdays are my regular nights . |
| 12 | ‘ They are growing up missing half their heritage , and I really began to be concerned when they said fish and chips were their favourite food . |
| 13 | Power and influence are what social systems live on . |
| 14 | The 1950s language of good and evil forces , of worldwide pacts , bases and influence is their natural speech . |
| 15 | And we are discovering that we are not interested in exploring the finer points of alienation with tea cuppery , but that the theatre can be a bridge of bone between sickness and health — that our language will somehow always be on the edge of poetry and that image and metaphor are our natural tools — they best express whole worlds and histories in collision with each other . |
| 16 | Shame and honour were what motivated men . |
| 17 | I ca n't wait to tell Ernest that you and Con were our anonymous benefactors all along . ’ |
| 18 | It was a very moving and challenging address , culminating in the acknowledgement that one person who underwent many years in Communist prisons , suffering hardships in mind and body was his own father . |
| 19 | It is significant , however , that nowhere in what survives of his writings and teachings is there any mention whatever of the Virgin Birth — a glaring omission for an evangelist in the circumstances . |
| 20 | The growth of wheat , the birth of a lamb , the movement of clouds , put him in awe of nature : the locomotive he sees as man 's response : the switch and throttle are his magic wands … the girl may come to the science lesson with a less eager curiosity than the boy , but she too will need to feel at home with machinery . |
| 21 | RON HARRIS : ( Chelsea and Brentford- 1961–1983 ) : ‘ People called him Chopper Harris , and Chopper was my first nickname when I went to Wimbledon — before the crowd came up with Psycho for me . |
| 22 | Terhune was an assault specialist solo who had sub-contracted for H-M on several occasions , and Rodriguez was their top Colorado Op , further qualified because he came from the quarry 's home turf . |
| 23 | Roderick will be sadly missed in every circle in which he moved , but most of all , of course , by Bobbie , whose devotion and fortitude was his greatest comfort in his final illness , and whose forbearance over many years enabled Roderick to spend such a great amount of their valuable time on the book . |
| 24 | Only in London and Liverpool was there any tradition of Mat building that went back to the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Louis was the King , and Thérèse was his little queen . |
| 26 | All this talk of chocolate is making me feel hungry , and chocolate is my special passion . |
| 27 | Bacardi and coke is my only tipple and I do sometimes get through a couple on nights when I 'm in myself , well it 's better than turning to the biscuit barrel is n't it ? |
| 28 | ‘ Big ’ government is anathema to them , and bureaucrats are their natural enemies . |
| 29 | The main aspect of the gens which interested Engels 's and Marx was it communal character , the ways it was internally undifferentiated and the way it held property as well as people and children in common . |
| 30 | A popular paper differed from this in that its large circulation ensured that newsprint and ink was its major cost category ( 36% ) , followed by production costs ( 30% ) and editorial costs ( 13% ) . |