Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate that , I really do , thank God I 'm at boarding school cos I hate , the worst bit is like when they get , I remember when I was at day school and them coming home from the parents ' evening and I was |
| 2 | Pa has given special permission for the godparents and me to stand inside at the Jonah window , while he does the immersion outside . |
| 3 | I now had the incentive to train even harder , and I looked forward to the outdoor season with considerable relish . |
| 4 | When people ask me about the deeds of some of our very great airmen , and I go right throughout the war on both sides , there are shining examples brighter than anything in the constellation that come to mind ; I think of Cheshire 's 100 sorties and , no less important , Fraser Barron — a little Kiwi not yet 21 with two DSOs , two DFCs and a DFM — Pathfinder squadron commander , killed with his deputy Master Bomber on one of the interdiction targets before the Invasion , and a host of others , I can think of half-a-hundred , but I have never met anyone — In fact I have never walked in the shadow of anyone — braver than Buster . |
| 5 | ‘ And I go right round the table . |
| 6 | He went ; and I stared again at the Modigliani , caressed the Rodin , surveyed the room . |
| 7 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
| 8 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 9 | As half-time approached and with the score at 0–0 , Reg and I shuffled nervously on the bench , but the duck was about to be broken . |
| 10 | And I heard enough about the grisly ways in which he like to make sure his questions were answered . |
| 11 | The shudder of the bigger wave sent a shock wave through the long hull , and I laughed aloud with the pleasure of it . |
| 12 | Dana and I slept together in the double bed in my bedroom , next to my parents ’ room , where my mother was sleeping with Aunt Lyallie . |
| 13 | One day an elderly lady with a hearing aid came in and I was doing her hair , chatting away and making her laugh , and I cut right through the wire ! |
| 14 | Mr. Gould was to my very great regret in this disposition when Mr. Gunn , Elinor and I embarked again in the evening to visit the shores of that portion of the northern part of Research Bay where La Haye 's garden was planted , and where Captain King had discovered signs of coal … |
| 15 | You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate . |
| 16 | He sank back into his chair as Pyke and I walked away from the table , and tossed the whisky down his throat . |
| 17 | After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us . |
| 18 | There was nobody in the park at that time and I walked quickly through the dew , my feet soaked before I had gone ten yards , a trail of sliding tracks behind me on the grass . |
| 19 | We assembled our rods in the shelter of the old boathouse on the south shore and I strode purposefully to the loch , almost as a matter of principal . |
| 20 | It was terribly important that I should beat him , and I struggled desperately against the invisible forces that always prevent one running in dreams . |
| 21 | I trip on something in the ferns , twisting in mid-air as my ankle gives underneath me and I slam backwards into the ground , winding myself . |
| 22 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 23 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 24 | I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community . |
| 25 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 26 | and I said then on the , on the Saturday his leg , his wound , he come out of intensive care on the Wednesday and on the Saturday his , his dressing had n't been changed on his leg and it reeked and I said can we actually please have a clean dressing for my dad 's leg , even if I 've got to put the bugger on myself , that was at quarter past eight |
| 27 | And then we added eight two , which asked the director to explore the long-term viability of the estate , now we made that , and I said so at the time , the answer to that could be either positive or negative . |
| 28 | In an attempt to retrieve it gracefully , I did a half turn ; the backs of my knees hit the arm of one of a pair of chairs and I toppled backwards over the chair and landed on my hat , wedged between the chairs with my legs in the air . |
| 29 | so that they are fully trained and ready to handle the problems that might arise erm there is , however , cause for some er optimism and I refer specifically to the recreational page from the Estuaries Consultation Document from English Nature and in one of their er proposals and objectives they say encouraging self regulation and observance of Code of Practice by local clubs and groups to avoid clon conflict with and or disturbance to other users including nature conservation interests . |
| 30 | I took the only option that I could see was open to me , and I ran away into the desert . |