Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [adv] [vb base] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I just light my lighter in your direction . |
| 2 | I share a birthplace with my hon. Friend , and I also share his concern about the future of the assisted places scheme . |
| 3 | I know about the Islington survey , and I also share his concern about under-reporting in some areas of the country of some types of crime in particular , but let me continue with the facts before we begin to look at the solutions . |
| 4 | ‘ You can have too much of anything , ’ was Gay 's sage rejoinder , ‘ and I rather think her mother 's been overdoing this entertaining stunt . |
| 5 | It was at this time that we read Morgan Forster 's article in the Listener about George Crabbe and we were touched and interested enough to seek out a copy of Crabbe 's poems and I well remember my surprise in discovering a mid-19th-century edition in San Diego , I think . |
| 6 | From the age of seven I had always wanted to be a missionary and I well remember my mother returning from a missionary meeting in the village to hear me say that was what I hoped one day to be . |
| 7 | I am not surprised that he ventured into the fray this evening , because he has already won an outstanding victory for his constituents and I well understand his desire to enjoy another . |
| 8 | ‘ I think that pictures of this kind have no place on the sleeve of a pop record and I strongly question her commitment to Amnesty International . ’ |
| 9 | I am sorry if I appeared to spring the letter on you and I fully understand your desire to get it right . |
| 10 | The neighbours do n't have nothing to do with me and I only see me mam once a week or so . |
| 11 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 12 | You have got to enjoy yourself to be able to complete at a top level and I still love my running . |
| 13 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 14 | And I never break my word . |
| 15 | I really like this , it reminds me of a John Carpenter soundtrack and I really like his stuff . |
| 16 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 17 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 18 | I am not a virgin , but I try to keep myself pure and I always keep my body clean . |
| 19 | I do n't much like Turgenev — I think the death of Bazarov in Fathers and Sons is unconvincing and unfair to the reader — and I always have my watch fifteen minutes fast . |
| 20 | In fact , my dogs eat the supermarket 's own brand and I seldom change my car ; paying double for my dinner is the nearest I get to it , to being Imelda , or Ivana , but it makes me feel good . |
| 21 | Although I welcome the way in which my right hon. Friend has responded to pressure from those of us who are concerned about the future of the volunteers in the Territorial army and elsewhere , and I especially welcome his statement about the future of the Army Cadet Force and the support it receives from the reserves , what are his particular plans for the three reserve battalions of the Royal Anglians ? |
| 22 | in draft and I gratefully adopt his summary of the facts . |
| 23 | And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap . |
| 24 | At the same time , I would warn Obair * , the same as I would warn anybody setting up a scheme , to make sure that the scheme is properly run , to make sure that the scheme is n't used to take jobs away from either the domestics , the home helps or any other jobs in the health service — make sure that abuse is taken away and I certainly wish them luck in the future and I thank you for inviting me here to speak . |
| 25 | And I certainly believe my partnership with Ally McCoist can pose problems for even the best of defences . |
| 26 | And me being a silly idiot , see if I 'd realized I did n't think you do n't think that there 's three parts of the tank , you think it 's a tank and you just turn your tap on and the water comes out or |
| 27 | So you ignore that symbol and you just decide which deck to pu pile to put them on based on those f the four first symbols . |
| 28 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 29 | I mean , banks and building societies , whoever , can cut their dividend rate , and you suddenly find your income falls dramatically in one year . |
| 30 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |