Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rumoured to wait until dark and them to cross into the white suburb and steal wallets from trousers draped across bedroom chairs while their white owners slept . |
| 2 | The dormitories were empty and nothing stirred in the main corridor . |
| 3 | If that were to happen , let it be clear that that would be typical of the cynical manipulation by Labour councils of the most vulnerable in our society , and nothing to do with the new council tax . |
| 4 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |
| 5 | And nothing appeals to an experienced hunter more than a wounded or somehow disabled prey . |
| 6 | So Grandma and Grandad had one bedroom , Mother , Father and me slept in the other one , and the two brothers slept downstairs . |
| 7 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 8 | We again slept in the cab , Sean taking the bed and me improvising with an inflatable mattress across the driver and passenger seats . |
| 9 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 10 | ‘ My mum 's brilliant and I go to a lovely young designer called Richard Kinlock , who 's superb . |
| 11 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 12 | So I hope , in my remarks , and I hope in the general tone of the debate , there 's enough to reassure London Region that we need to move forward at a careful pace . |
| 13 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 14 | Mala and I stared at the enlarging disc that appeared on other screens after Posi revolved the ship to bring the lateral ceptors to bear . |
| 15 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 16 | Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand . |
| 17 | I felt exhausted when I climbed into bed and I fell into a deep sleep from which I awoke next morning refreshed and happier . |
| 18 | As far as I 'm concerned , and I 've through the whole scene of infertility , motherhood is about responsibility and privilege , it 's not about rights , and it 's responsibility that lasts a lifetime and it 's tremendous privilege to be a mother ! |
| 19 | This remains the standard today — and I know of no other country in the world , including the USA , that keeps its accident investigators at such a high standard of training and efficiency . |
| 20 | Er suggested that the officers have a joint meeting and get together and actually ask them what transport to be given the figures er for night flights so that they could and so on , and I know by the recent customer complaints and I believe members attended the meeting of those four Councils so that I think that discuss that . |
| 21 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 22 | The ingredients were gathered together for me by Lord Wittisham , the kidneys themselves prepared by Mr Pegg , and I attended to the final cooking and preparation of the sauce . ’ |
| 23 | He led , and I followed like a little sheep . |
| 24 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 25 | And I thought of the other man , the mysterious watcher . |
| 26 | I walked off the ship , and I slept in a little house near the sea . |
| 27 | This meant my brother and my mum had to share a double bed and I slept in a single one . |
| 28 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 29 | I must explain that and I eat in a special compartment , screened from the other foreign friends , who pay for their own meals . |
| 30 | ‘ Burt and I met in the early Seventies and became really good friends . |