Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Grandma and Grandad had one bedroom , Mother , Father and me slept in the other one , and the two brothers slept downstairs . |
| 2 | So I hope , in my remarks , and I hope in the general tone of the debate , there 's enough to reassure London Region that we need to move forward at a careful pace . |
| 3 | And I respond in the same way . |
| 4 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 5 | ‘ Burt and I met in the early Seventies and became really good friends . |
| 6 | She and I walked in the ancient garden , talking quietly about our childhood meetings . |
| 7 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
| 8 | Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up . |
| 9 | That afternoon she and I devised in the small front room of our lodgings ( pliant landlady , audience of children ) a double act : the Carruthers Sisters . |
| 10 | The fire man and I rolled in the wet undergrowth . |
| 11 | I erm unfortunately , er , agree with the previous speaker that a very strong calvinistic streak runs through me and I believe in the two parent family and also in the efforts that you should make to keep the family ge together , but I think too , there 's sp , er , perceptions of individuals and particularly , younger generations now in society , are so much different from my own perceptions when I initially became married and started my own family but what society has to look at the perceptions and expectations of the individuals in society . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , Bill Black and I quit in the fifth year , just before Elvis went into the Army . |
| 13 | That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden . |
| 14 | He and I live in the same street . |
| 15 | On the question of aggression by the North , there can be no doubt whatever that their ultimate object is to overrun the South ; and I think in the long term there is no doubt that they will do so , in which case , as you so aptly remark , the Americans will have made a rather handsome contribution of equipment to the military strength of Asiatic Communism . |
| 16 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 17 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 18 | Erm and and you said in the preliminary interview , the fact that there was some people who actually who lived in the flats who said quite am said quite clearly , this is not the time |
| 19 | And you imagine in the nineteen thirties , selling insurance . |
| 20 | If you lift heavy weights and you lift in the wrong way , you can obviously do yourself damage . |
| 21 | Her hair was taken back just on one side , and she smiled in the general direction of the entire human race . |
| 22 | We are constantly approached by people who want our help , and we respond in the best way we can . |
| 23 | And we stay in the same place ! |
| 24 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 25 | The transportation of useful plants from one part of the world to another had begun in the eighteenth century , and we saw in the previous chapter how Kew Gardens became the hub of the British empire 's efforts to replace indigenous species with imported ones of greater commercial value . |
| 26 | Thirdly , we 're trying to make sure that children who can best benefit by foster care , er do get foster parents , and we 've had a big er initiative this last twelve months , you probably know about , and that 's paying off , and we hope in the future only children going into residential homes who need residential care will get there . |
| 27 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 28 | It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle . |
| 29 | It 's a resource erm that is needed in order to provide children with a whole variety of learning problems with specialized teaching , with specialized education , and we think in the Labour group that it is a tragedy that those needs are not going to be recognised . |
| 30 | ‘ Come in a moment , ’ she said , and we stood in the darkened hall . |