Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And their impression er of Germany well you can imagine a big country like America , there 's quite a lot of them Germans and the , the German angle was er played up as well you see . |
| 2 | To be my sword arm and my scourge , the bane of my enemies and the defender of my children . ’ |
| 3 | I stood on my anchors and the BMW 's much-vaunted braking system came good . |
| 4 | Touch-legering is not necessary , or so I think when the line is snatched from my fingers and the rod slams over from a vicious bite . |
| 5 | It would be a magnet , like Victor said , pulling at my fingers and the palm of my hand . |
| 6 | The icy metal of the stirrup stuck to my fingers and the sour breath of the horse was hot upon my face . |
| 7 | But I did open my teeth and the strange sloppy kiss was done . |
| 8 | As a hungry little lad my stomach occasionally overruled my manners and the Grace would include a parenthetic rebuke such as , ‘ For what we are about to receive ( and for what Stewart has already eaten ) we give You thanks … ’ |
| 9 | I 've the problems of the world on my shoulders and the Captain snapping at my heels . |
| 10 | AN ANIMAL SOUND , like a bull in tumescence , was intruding in the helmet , a yowling , roaring noise , audible even above the roar of the engine behind my shoulders and the rush of wind which was buffeting them . |
| 11 | I walk into a dance rehearsal as a well-adjusted 44-year-old woman holding on to my valiums and the hope that I 'm growing old gracefully , and I walk out a 19-year-old hooligan with purple hair extensions , leopard-skin cycling shorts , black lip-gloss and the word ‘ menopause ’ blocked out of my consciousness . |
| 12 | The young Pathan had guarded my car zealously and got my thanks and the second half of his reward . |
| 13 | ‘ You can scarcely conceive ’ , she wrote , ‘ how the jarring contrast between the sounds which are now for-ever ringing in my ears and the sweet sounds of Allfoxden makes me long for the country again . ’ |
| 14 | Silence , but for the hiss of blood in my ears and the thud of my heart . |
| 15 | The first tier finished at mini-length , the second at my knees and the third at my ankles . |
| 16 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 17 | I flashed my headlights and the one on the left gradually pulled ahead . |
| 18 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 19 | I fell in love with a boy with a crew cut who came to mend our roof with the window cleaner who grinned at me in my rollers and the boy in Vallance 's record shop with a sport face . |
| 20 | I really did not want to be black because it was different to what my parents and the other children were . |
| 21 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 22 | Of course tiredness affects it as do my periods and the time of the day even . |
| 23 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 24 | So that 's what I do — I bring all my plants and the flowers Mr Frost gave me a couple of days ago . |
| 25 | Will my hon. Friend assure my constituents and the House that the Conservative party and Ministers in Scotland are fighting to ensure that that workshop , which has a record of excellence and can carry out plating work which saves the Government millions of pounds on buying replacement parts , will continue because of its record and not for sentimental reasons ? |
| 26 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 27 | I have followed the pension changes and difficulties that have been experienced by my constituents and the work that has been undertaken by the all-party pension group . |
| 28 | I am currently in therapy to enable myself to hear the song Schiehallion , Schiehallion without the scent of tomato soup filling my nostrils and the overwhelming urge to murder . |
| 29 | But I think , I think , most parishioners and certainly th everyone on the parish council are very aware of both my feelings and the and er clearly it will be important to mark it and I 'm sure we would wish to work together in doing so . |
| 30 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |