Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lutyens 's verdict was law , and nothing escaped his personal praise or criticism . |
| 2 | And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it . |
| 3 | ‘ One word of this and I tell your local rags where you learnt your craft . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I hear a song and I tell my musical director what tempo I want it in , and how it 's going to end . |
| 5 | Promotion is the priority and I hope our missing fans will see this as a positive move in the right direction . ’ |
| 6 | When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running . |
| 7 | In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ . |
| 8 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 9 | Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going . |
| 10 | And I like their white teeth . |
| 11 | And I like your obvious sympathy with my people in Santa Barbara village . ’ |
| 12 | And I like your funny way of doing things … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , and I got my other hearing-aid , and some notes — ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , and he bought bought bits and that , and I got my little book , you know , my pictures in have n't I ? |
| 15 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 16 | At the end of summer there were still patches of old snow on the sheltered slopes of the Cirque des Pessons , and I wrote my first poem about Andorra : |
| 17 | He spoke to her in very precise Greek , and I heard my own name and the name of the school . |
| 18 | He successfully resisted treatment , and he returned home from the clinic describing himself , and I use his own words , as being ‘ fantastically ill ’ . |
| 19 | I know perfectly well what responsibilities I have for the Home Office and for the actions of Home Office officials and the Minister who handled the case , and I know my own responsibility in this matter . |
| 20 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 21 | I was reading and no doubt seeing myself as Chopin , and I had my new book on birds beside me . |
| 22 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 23 | When I reached the pit bottom , there was approximately three feet of water at the pit bottom and I had my first experience of water in the mines . |
| 24 | When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches . |
| 25 | Now we did not have to sit on the edge of the bed — a much wider bed — because there were two chairs , and I had my own shower and facilities for making coffee and snacks . |
| 26 | You know , this is how it was first and I only come across that but , how it went , they felt I was genuine I suppose and they could trust me and they left it as it was and I had me own building . |
| 27 | He ducked into one of the caves and I followed his bent back and the torchlight in the chill and damp . |
| 28 | I saw clouds passing swiftly by and I sensed my own movement in another time and space . |
| 29 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |
| 30 | ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’ |