Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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1 | Most visitors arrive in cars and coaches but it remains for walkers an excellent base for mountain expeditions , with major climbs in the immediate vicinity . |
2 | Most people ensure that they spend their lives working for something which they think has a future , and which will provide the sort of life and opportunity that they wish for themselves and their dependants . |
3 | TSB invite readers to attend Saturday 's local County finals , which take place at the Bebington Oval , to cheer on Merseyside 's budding Christies and Gunnells as they fight for a place in the Merseyside team . |
4 | " It 's true , " he told Harry and Ann when they looked for confirmation . |
5 | STEPHEN HENDRY continues to walk a tightrope between success and failure as he strives for the form that made him world champion just ten months ago . |
6 | Marje adds : ‘ If you live a double life of lies and deception as I did for years and years , you need to speak about it eventually . |
7 | Now it 's shrinking and the dye is coming out — look at the water , it 's bright red — you see , you ignore good instructions in your wilfulness and laziness and pride and you pay for it with a ruined skirt . |
8 | Ingrid feels more influenced by painters like Sonya Delaunay and Picasso , and by the fragments of colours and textures that she collects for reference . |
9 | In a report to a plenary meeting of Tsektran in June , he said that trains should stop acting like droshkys , carrying people and goods where they wished for little or no pay . |
10 | There it is maintained that , despite a decade of public discussion on the curriculum and the existence of widespread agreement on its main features , there were significant variations in practice which needed to be eliminated in the interests of equipping all young people ‘ with the knowledge , skills and understandings that they need for adult life and employment ’ . |
11 | A touch more eyeshadow and mascara and she twirled for Mrs Freer . |
12 | I learned to love what Diana and Mary loved — the little old grey house , the wild open moors around it , and the lonely hills and valleys where we walked for hours . |
13 | Bacon could be discussed here , since its input is numeric , or in the section on correlation and clustering since it searches for correlations . |
14 | Indeed , here is a reminder that Christmas can only be understood in the light of later events , can only be discovered in all its wonderful freshness and life when we discover for ourselves that Jesus is the human face of God . |
15 | NEW pupils at a dog obedience class were all shapes and sizes when they arrived for their first lesson yesterday . |
16 | The warmth and affection that we felt for each other will always be with me . |
17 | Not surprisingly , spending increased on micros and workstations while it declined for mainframes . |