Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] and the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The nurses panicked and made me and the other mother sign forms saying that we definitely had our own babies . ’ |
| 2 | Fortunately , even though it was just after 3am on Friday morning , Len was there to meet me and the first hurdle was over , I had arrived . |
| 3 | And and it is also perhaps distracted er attention from the interesting disagreements also taking place at the Labour party conference this week between the one more pushes , if I might describe them and the hard liners who believe you 've got to be radical . |
| 4 | Pigeons are derived from the Rock Dove and which nested and perched in cliff side and buildings are the nearest thing so I the pigeons are n't really an argument and you do if you want proper birds in the city centre such as thrushes and blackbirds and even sparrows you need real trees to encourage them and the these trees are fairly mature and helpful . |
| 5 | Next is the fact that the more dots you have the longer it 's going to take to process them and the more memory you 'll need to hold the bitmap . |
| 6 | Geordie humour sums that up in the phrase , ’ The English divvent want we and the Scots winna have we . ’ |
| 7 | Dandelion overtook him and the two disappeared among the ilex trees . |
| 8 | so therefore the Irish people designed it and the Irish people gone bust and out of business |
| 9 | Oh course I can Erm there was a game that we called er Tin Lurky You probably wo n't well you never hear that expression now and er we used to get this old t any tin can and er you somebody would kick it you see and er the one that was sort of one used to have to fur and fetch this tin an bring it back again and then was should all hide , sounds a daft silly game , I know , but this one had to find us and the first one he found it was his turn next to fetch the tin and then find us again . |
| 10 | He believed me and the next day suggested that I moved out . |
| 11 | He declared that 90 per cent of Indonesians belonged to this class of small farmers , labourers , urban workers : and he did not direct his attack upon the other 10 per cent but upon the Dutch who had exploited them and the Chinese entrepreneurs who lived off their labour . |
| 12 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 13 | In the morning , the shipping line said there would be a special connecting train that would bring them and the other 180 Irish passengers to the ship at Queenstown in time for the sailing . |
| 14 | When you have the ball , three of them come at you — two to tackle you and the third to go away with the ball . |
| 15 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 16 | After we 've seen him and the young ladies have finished their calls I want you to take Irene Charial aside . ’ |
| 17 | He went to answer it and the next thing he knew he was being attacked by a group of men . |
| 18 | We must criticise explanations of difference that treat gender as something obvious , static and monolithic , ignoring the forces that shape it and the varied forms they take in different times and places . |
| 19 | and he could n't do it and the worse thing was everybody in the pool had gone go on |
| 20 | But there is a way , you can manage you can do it and the important thing is that it 's your body that 's doing it , that your body that 's keeping the exercise going , so that when the actual pain disappears , when you 've got rid of the acid , your joints still work and your muscles are still good . |
| 21 | This was a parting gift but I dropped mine and the bloody dogs were on it in a flash , whilst Benjamin , kind as ever , gave his to the page who served us . |
| 22 | Remember that day , Master Harry , when she came up to see you and the two of you hid in that there pavilion ? ’ |
| 23 | I shall examine in this section the means by which different discourses and public texts are ground together to reveal the common structures that underlie them and the common strategies they employ . |
| 24 | If you lay on the ground whining it incensed them and the subsequent kicks and punches were harder and aimed at the mouth and head rather than the stomach and back . |
| 25 | She claimed she and the murdered girl had been drinking with the old man , and that he had killed her friend , but the old man was acquitted and McLachlan was sentenced to hang . |
| 26 | I want to help him and the only way I can do that is try and find out who really killed her . |
| 27 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 28 | Modigliani did not like her and the two often quarrelled . |
| 29 | About sixty former members of the BUF joined him and the last phase of his career in English politics had begun . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I 've only got one thing to say to you , ’ says Joe , as I wave him and the other day-trippers off : ‘ Lucky bastard ! ’ |