Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might have been up there playing and somebody like me or a young talent scout from a record company . |
| 2 | He grinned at nothing or a secret joke . |
| 3 | and obviously you and I and a few others , but erm |
| 4 | Choice of the insurer is yours and an existing policy can be considered , although in such cases it may require depositing with the bank as security . |
| 5 | ‘ Millet has a gospel , and I ask you , is n't there a difference between a drawing of his and a nice sermon ? ’ |
| 6 | It is perhaps more likely that Freeman has been deceived by the fact that the linguistic patterning of King Lear so under-determines how it is to be interpreted that it is compatible with his and a large number of other theories of metaphor which all equally predict it , and hence appear to explain it . |
| 7 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
| 8 | It is abundantly clear that there was no enthusiasm amongst the English nobility for a renewal of war , and the triumphant campaign that now ensued was prepared by the king himself and a small group of his military supporters , notably Henry Percy of Alnwick and William de Clinton . |
| 9 | It was a linchpin of Lewis 's theism that thought itself was a metaphysical act ; his exploration of this theme in his book Miracles and the subsequent heated debate between himself and a fellow-Christian philosopher , Elizabeth Anscombe , provided one of the great academic sideshows in the Oxford of the late 1940s . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Allowable also are the mortgagee 's costs , reasonably and properly incurred , of proceedings between himself and a third party where what is impugned is the title to the estate . |
| 11 | The survivors were Nietzsche himself and a younger sister . |
| 12 | He only learnt of Chalky 's disappearance in February 1989 five days after a meeting at his house between James , Gardiner , himself and a fourth man . |
| 13 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 14 | Accordingly , his introduction takes the form of a long conversation between himself and an old man , a Beggar , who approaches him while he is walking in the fields after a sleepless night at Chester 's Inn , where the clerks lived . |
| 15 | Mrs Burrows was careful to indicate what a privilege this was , her only son and she , Alexandra , a nobody and a temporary resident at that . |
| 16 | But if you quite like sleeping with the offending partner for other reasons , you 'll need earplugs , a light where it disturbs nobody and a good book till the warm drink you 've made for consolation lulls you back to the Land of Nod — pending the next onslaught . |
| 17 | Last year , it seemed he had matured enough to fulfil himself but a cruel succession of injuries denied him . |
| 18 | Moses had made the arduous climb to the top of the mountain , but on the summit he did not experience God himself but a thick cloud of unknowing . ’ |
| 19 | I remembered what Agrippa had told me and a faint suspicion stirred . |
| 20 | I was out of my depth : she was a lot heavier than me and a bloody sight more determined . |
| 21 | It 's a great pleasure to me and a certain indication of satisfaction that many of them are regulars . |
| 22 | Tim was fascinated at seeing overturned engines on the side of the line , and you girls were a little anxious as you saw me and a nice Salvation Army wife tear down the track when the train stopped to get water from the engine ! |
| 23 | Just you and me and a force-ten gale . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ She 's as active as you or me and a damn sight tougher . |
| 25 | ‘ When I went to Grimsby , in the war , there was just me and a few students — invalided servicemen , some nice girlies just out of school — things were lovely . |
| 26 | Andrew added : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . ’ |
| 27 | Andrew said : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . |
| 28 | It 's a great adventure for me and a big challenge . |
| 29 | The door opened behind them and a junior officer came in . |
| 30 | The nation 's youngsters took to them and a successful soap was born . |