Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And everyone joins in this charade with talk of them now having time to do all the things they have always wanted to do . |
| 2 | I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire . |
| 3 | I 'm ninety three now and I go in this back yard do something every time . |
| 4 | This column has been set aside for the punchcard machines , but I 'm not forgetting that some of you have manual machines and I hope in future issues in to include something for you from time to time . |
| 5 | The first weekend in September should be a closed date and I hope in future years the folly of playing games on national finals day will not be repeated . |
| 6 | But without your support and your demonstrations and support from whites in other countries with the rugby demonstrations , the cricket , with all aspects that you 've done , you 've also contributed to making it easier for us to be the kind of people we would like to be and I hope in that way we therefore do share as a family and then try and create one world . |
| 7 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 8 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 9 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |
| 10 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 11 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 12 | And I came in one day a few days ago an and running around like a bee on heat with erm cries of oh I 've got so much to do and no time left in which to do it and I went ha I said yes , if you got up early , you know ! |
| 13 | The World squad matches in New Zealand were great and I felt in fine fettle there but after injury in Australia it has been quite a struggle . |
| 14 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 15 | My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll . |
| 16 | And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . |
| 17 | He was a strong young man , and I delighted in that strength : he once signed a letter to me ‘ Your wild boy of Aveyron ’ . |
| 18 | It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things . |
| 19 | It matters a great deal , and I want in this chapter to sketch out some of the implications of this inviolable link which the New Testament writers make between Jesus and the Spirit . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ Mick and I answered in simultaneous relief . |
| 21 | Laura and I sat in tense silence , listening to the creak of the stairs . |
| 22 | ‘ And I understand in this district we have the highest pay-outs of social security , ’ he added . |
| 23 | to erm the the pattern of development going on in Richmondshire and I suspect in other districts as well , having read through their their evidence . |
| 24 | After all , most people do n't think much of Liverpool as a place to work and live in , though I think it 's fantastic and I live in greater style — in the wing of a large Victorian house — than I could in the South . |
| 25 | First of all if one looks at the draft advice on the erm regional plan guidance prepared by the Yorkshire and Humberside local planning authorities , they in fact advocate new settlement as an appropriate circumstances , there is not a policy which says that they are not appropriate or are inconsistent with other policy objectives , and I note in that respect that the D O E as Mr Donson said , are mildly supportive of the new settlement in the Greater York area . |
| 26 | Apart from two periods apart from the beginning of the fifteenth century , and I think in certain respects in our own day , and for the rest of the time we were dass land ohne muziek the land without music , I fear . |
| 27 | Addition ( 1974 ) : Churning out the same stuff gives one that sick , ecky feeling in the head and I think in advanced cases the feeling is counter corrected in the head to one of numbed atrophy which is shown in those people who find it impossible to let thought in conversation run fluidly-fluently but must talk tensely about weather , colour of curtains , ailments , grouses . |
| 28 | if you widen it out we 're talking about a consultation and I think in many ways we must respect the local member , erm |
| 29 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 30 | I know that there are many women who have a very rough time at home , but you 're asking me if I think men have changed , and I think in that way , domestically , I think they have , but I do n't think their attitude has changed in the workplace . |