Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | But I remember Kielder Valley before it was flooded , when it was but a gleam in the developer 's eye ; and I remember the futile protests and the sadness of the communities who lost their homes . |
| 3 | and I remember the oblivious steps |
| 4 | She said , ‘ I was born in Upper Pitt Street and I remember the hard times we had . ’ |
| 5 | But I could see with my inner eye the form of my Lord Krishna , seated before Arjuna in the chariot on the battlefield of Kurukshetra , and I heard the sublime thoughts , and this filled my eyes with tears of joy and love . ' ’ |
| 6 | Well , I I still look ahead , and I recognize the loyalist paramilitaries have now the potential to become the major force . |
| 7 | At the halfway stage , however , I relax , I 'm a little more at ease , and I know the remaining days will pass more quickly . |
| 8 | And I miss The Two Ronnies . |
| 9 | ‘ By profession I was an opera and oratorio singer , and I sang the bass solos in ‘ The Messiah ’ in the Ulster Hall . ’ |
| 10 | It was after the first snow and I followed the clanging ploughs up the Dale , bumping along between high white mounds till I reached old Mr Stokill 's gate . |
| 11 | I stood looking at the pools of water lying on the pitch , the door of the directors ' Portakabin swinging back and forth on its one remaining hinge , and I recalled the good times , remembered the bad . |
| 12 | And I cut the whole roads in three weeks time with a mower . |
| 13 | The duet version makes the work seem less stable than the orchestral one and I prefer the real duets . |
| 14 | The overture finishes to applause , the curtains open , thunder rumbles and lightning flashes to reveal me , arms raised skyward and apparently floating in midair , as a huge mirror silently descends and I speak the first lines : |
| 15 | The Keraing , however , had put the wheels in motion , and while Sinar Surya was being prepared for the sea , and the pirates were still arguing about where she might go , and with whom , Lorne and I spent the following weeks suppressing our impatience by exploring our surroundings . |
| 16 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 17 | Tony and I unpacked the Upski parachutes that we had so lovingly tended all the way from the UK . |
| 18 | Half a dozen lapwings are feeding on a potato field along with some sparrows and a party of twite , and I spot the white wing-flashes of a cock chaffinch among the black earth . |
| 19 | Does my hon. Friend agree that in constituencies such as mine in the south-east there are problems in providing houses for those most in need and I welcome the additional figures that he has announced for housing associations ? |
| 20 | So she went away and I never pressurised her and I told the other girls not to ask questions or anything , just to leave her . |
| 21 | and I spilt the entire contents of that over my shirt one of my old shirts and it 's the only one I had to wear , I actually had to wear it , it absolutely reeked . |
| 22 | A tattooed arm reaches down from the high cab — lovely , real arm , wonderful words ! — and I scale the high steps to sit with my feet on a coil of rope . |
| 23 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 24 | And I do the fine embroideries . |
| 25 | Oh , and I do the monthly teas for the Valley Choir , ’ she said , thinking of them fondly . |
| 26 | And I did the three sets in the er electricity works and the two in the substation . |
| 27 | But within days meal times became battlegrounds between my family and me , and I needed the long walks more than ever , to let off steam . |
| 28 | I was interviewed recently and I mentioned the long-term effects of being asked about drugs in interviews . |
| 29 | and I loved the new babies . |
| 30 | My brother Brian and I watched the Shoan armies as they went north to give battle to Negus Mikael and his Wollo hordes . |