Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It found support in the professional and middle classes , and Treitschke gave it intellectual respectability . |
| 2 | The children made lots of friends in the Mini-Club , under the watchful supervision of ‘ Animators ’ who organised activities in the morning and afternoon giving us some time to ourselves . |
| 3 | By-employments such as basket-making , hemp-dressing and wild-fowling gave them additional security . |
| 4 | By night , Kos really comes to life and boasts two of the best discos in Greece and lots of bars and tavernas to keep you happy well into the early hours of the morning . |
| 5 | Their praises and flattery gives you new heart and helps you feel top of the world on Sunday . |
| 6 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 7 | My Mum works for Jane in there , in the alarm business and Jane paid me five pounds . |
| 8 | The universities of Manchester , St Andrews , and Cambridge awarded him honorary degrees in 1919 . |
| 9 | And heaven forgive him that invention ! |
| 10 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 11 | If I lay on my side , my shoulders and hips gave me particular trouble ; if I lay on my front , my back ached ; and if I lay on my back , the springs of the mattress dug into what little flesh I had left . |
| 12 | The Jane Asher dinosaur cake was introduced recently and buyers inform us that dinosaur shaped canned pasta is now a possibility , together with existing canned lines of this kind . |
| 13 | The man with her demanded a double Scotch on the rocks and Emil told him that alcohol was available only after departure . |
| 14 | According to J.L. Missika and D. Wolton , politicians were suspicious of broadcasting and governments allotted it scanty credits ; at the same time , governments encouraged the cultural vocation of television , and information ministers ( including Mitterrand ) accepted arguments from engineers in favour of a high-definition standard of television that was technically satisfying but increased costs . |
| 15 | we were 3–1 down ut Macca and Newsome got us 1 point . |
| 16 | We needed to test our resources and Jets gave us that chance . ’ |
| 17 | If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly waved its hand at us we should treat it as a miracle , because all our experience and knowledge tells us that marble does n't behave like that . |
| 18 | Rambush was appointed chief engineer and his boundless energy and leadership earned him rapid promotion with ever greater responsibilities . |
| 19 | His business skills and integrity earned him wide respect , and a strong personality reinforced his large physical presence — he latterly weighed eighteen stones . |
| 20 | There is a wide range of vitamins and minerals in bananas , and dieticians tell us that man can live on bananas and water alone , though the monotony may send yu over the edge ! |
| 21 | Something between distress and amusement struck her this time . |
| 22 | well not saying tha , I mean I and again I , I think what I need to do is get a sheet again , obviously working with yourselves and Rod to get you more information to make sure the classes are not and do n't get same situation as last year |
| 23 | Instead , the National Consumer Council 's previous work on consumer aid and advice convinces us that advice about money and credit problems — just like other types of advice — is best available as part of a general advice service , from non-specialist advice bureaux such as CABx . |
| 24 | Romeo and Juliet shows us medieval Italy doubly distorted , by the sixteenth-century vision of the author and the fourteenth-century government of a duke ; none the less , as a picture of endemic faction and eternal conflict , it is as authentic for our period as for any later . |
| 25 | This was a new Lachlan for most of the men — quieter , grim but not violent ; and his efficiency and drive won him more respect than ever his temper had done . |
| 26 | There was to be full-blooded abolition of RPM and legislation to achieve it that session' . |
| 27 | After the therapist encouraged the couple to think of ways of being positive in their behaviour towards each other , Ann agreed to wear more attractive clothes , and Charles to show her more consideration and affection by praising her appearance , and expressing positive feelings towards her . |
| 28 | In the former , education can provide more people with the skills and information to secure them good jobs and , thus , produce an increase in the number of people prepared for fulfilling and materially rewarding occupations . |
| 29 | ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history . |
| 30 | Colin Dodge for ‘ Sorry chaps , you 're too late , Crooksy and Blain did it last week in a Mobile Adventure open canoe , ’ Eddie Cornfield for ‘ When Fred said we were paddling in two inches of water I thought he was joking ! ’ , |