Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [art] [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 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 6 | 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 . ' ’ |
| 7 | Well , I I still look ahead , and I recognize the loyalist paramilitaries have now the potential to become the major force . |
| 8 | Lot twenty five little red Peter Pan there it is now showing , thank you and I 've a hundred pounds offered for this , any more at one hundred ? |
| 9 | and I 've no blank tapes for it ; |
| 10 | At the halfway stage , however , I relax , I 'm a little more at ease , and I know the remaining days will pass more quickly . |
| 11 | And I miss The Two Ronnies . |
| 12 | But then I was never much of a businesswoman and I had no close relatives left to turn to for help and advice . |
| 13 | ‘ By profession I was an opera and oratorio singer , and I sang the bass solos in ‘ The Messiah ’ in the Ulster Hall . ’ |
| 14 | Benjamin and I followed a few minutes later . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And I cut the whole roads in three weeks time with a mower . |
| 19 | The duet version makes the work seem less stable than the orchestral one and I prefer the real duets . |
| 20 | Since I was one of the first to awaken , my noise was far from popular , and I received a few kicks and blows from my neighbours , in their kindly efforts to speed my recovery . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 23 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Tony and I unpacked the Upski parachutes that we had so lovingly tended all the way from the UK . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | There were shrieks of laughter and I felt a thousand bruises rising . |
| 30 | 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 . |