Example sentences of "[noun] and [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I take over the wheel and we lose them , the whole shooting match . ’
2 Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’
3 She said no , she said , he told her if she wanted to go to the expense of a wig , she could get a wig and she wear it when she went out , but when she comes in the house she must take it off , she must not wear that wig
4 There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle .
5 I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent .
6 He teaches me one of his songs and I sing it while he plays the guitar .
7 ‘ I have always wanted to write songs and you find yourself having to learn to play the guitar . ’
8 and went to Nursery Nurses ' Association and they suggested I took charge of an evacuee centre for children .
9 yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ?
10 You are Secretary of the Magistrates Association and you have something like twenty five thousand members out of a total of something like twenty seven thousand Magistrates .
11 Their names were Farag and Libab and he saw them every day .
12 Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth .
13 The persistent pinging assaulted her ears and she forced it into her head .
14 His lips were doing wonderful things to one of her ears and she heard him swallow , then rasp , ‘ I 'm taking you upstairs to my room . ’
15 Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime .
16 There was a savage splendour to his aroused body , and Maria called his name faintly , from far away , it seemed , as blood drummed in her ears and he took her into his arms again , sinking to the bed with her .
17 now I , I have seen foxes and I mean they are they are now in built up areas are n't they ?
18 Somebody give us a card and we sent it away and we got a
19 I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal
20 To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ?
21 He looks at Candice and she puckers her lips , perhaps ironically .
22 I think of Claudia and Victoria and Candice and I compare their facial motions in an impertinent fashion .
23 And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto
24 It 's quite funny though when he kicks his legs and he went he goes ooh wah !
25 He turned towards her , but the blankets entangled his legs and he fought his eyes open in irritation .
26 ‘ Nigel has a fanatical following of loyal fans and we hope they do n't try to hit our business .
27 My friends are Liverpool fans and they say they can get me tickets for the KOP , but no way am I standing with a bunch of idiots .
28 Tony said no , Jamie finished with Neil and I got my flowers
29 ‘ It 's a good partnership and we think it 's going to get better .
30 ‘ It 's a good partnership and we think it 's going to get better .
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