Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [be] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being quite educated and articulate I was n't the sort of prisoner they expected , even though as there are more drug offenders there are more and more women like me . |
| 2 | If it 's a small discharge and say it 's twice the limits , three times the limits , then it would be considered to be needing improvement . |
| 3 | But there is a more immediate aim for striker Ian Wright who is fighting a fitness battle to return in the live Sky TV game against the club which sold him to Highbury less than a year ago and show he is still the man England need . |
| 4 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm whipped up by Microsoft by holding onto a 70% share of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out code for 40,000 to 50,000 terminals a month . |
| 5 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm against Microsoft by gaining 70% of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out 40–50,000 seats a month . |
| 6 | Peek Plc 's Talahassee-based Peek Traffic Inc has acquired two traffic control companies and reckons it is now the largest , most diversified and capable US traffic management systems company : it bought Signal Control Co in Salem , Oregon and Signal Maintenance Inc in Anaheim , California , both from IASCO of Foster City , California , for $4.2m , equivalent to net asset value of the two companies , which have combined annual turnover of $24m ; payment will be $2.08m cash on completion and installments of $1m in October , $470,000 and $650,000 in April and July 1994 respectively . |
| 7 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 8 | ‘ We looked at the tournaments in the context of the whole winter and decided they were not the best preparation for a challenging series against the West Indies . ’ |
| 9 | This represents an increase of 25.8% on last years figure , and means it is now the largest non whisky export sector in Grampian . |
| 10 | Erm , and Chris had a look at it and said it 's not the phone it 's your line , so she had to have the , the G P O people in . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're looking at me and thinking I 'm not the one to do it , ’ Pie prompted . |