Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Middlesbrough is richly endowed with religious communities and during the coming months we will need to give some careful thought as to how our own diocese can benefit from this moment of Grace for the whole church . ’ |
| 2 | Each visit guaranteed he would leave behind some of his property and after a few weeks we 'd accumulated his record player , eight boxes of books and his Rupert Bear hot-water bottle . |
| 3 | Before that we consider in the next chapter some of the criticisms of the model and of the major results we have derived from it . |
| 4 | She picked up another letter , and again read aloud : ‘ I think of you often and of the happy times we had at The Hall , and they were happy times . |
| 5 | And with no financial paymasters we avoid the compromises . |
| 6 | Polyester was too far gone , starting from where we were , and with the limited resources we could put in . |
| 7 | ‘ Hopefully , he 'll learn something from Saturday and from the other games we 've played so far . |
| 8 | Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain . |
| 9 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 10 | There were ceilidhs round the peat fires and on the fine days we explored the moors and sea cliffs . |
| 11 | If one represents the sentence as , roughly speaking , HIT [ boy = agent , girl = acted-upon , flower = instrument ] then clearly this representation applies just as well to the active and to the passive sentences we have just given ( and to many other sentences too , such as ‘ The boy hit the girl , and he used a flower to do it ’ or ‘ There was boy , and he had a flower , and he hit the girl with it ’ ) . |