Example sentences of "[pers pn] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Millet has a gospel , and I ask you , is n't there a difference between a drawing of his and a nice sermon ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I remembered what Agrippa had told me and a faint suspicion stirred . |
| 4 | I was out of my depth : she was a lot heavier than me and a bloody sight more determined . |
| 5 | It 's a great pleasure to me and a certain indication of satisfaction that many of them are regulars . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Just you and me and a force-ten gale . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She 's as active as you or me and a damn sight tougher . |
| 9 | Andrew added : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . ’ |
| 10 | Andrew said : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . |
| 11 | It 's a great adventure for me and a big challenge . |
| 12 | The door opened behind them and a junior officer came in . |
| 13 | The nation 's youngsters took to them and a successful soap was born . |
| 14 | ‘ Generally people here can expect more-balanced advice on the best holiday for them and a wider choice than from many mainland agents . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Generally people here can expect more-balanced advice on the best holiday for them and a wider choice than from many mainland agents . ’ |
| 16 | During the month after her father 's death each of them had discovered the need to explore hitherto suppressed areas of feeling and half-knowledge that stood between them and a clearer knowledge of the selves they were now fully determined to offer to each other . |
| 17 | There was a pair of cream jodhpurs and boots to go with them and a proper crash-helmet like jockeys used . |
| 18 | All the subjects ( young children ) were trained with three ‘ nonsense ’ figures as the stimuli , learning to apply one verbal label to two of them and a different label to the third . |
| 19 | There is some suggestion that psychic communication can flow more easily along strata than across them and a true link can thus be formed through the Earth between those sites on similar strata . |
| 20 | It sounded absurdly false to her , as though they were playing a rather bald comedy for the benefit of the elderly lady , who was dividing her benign attention between them and a quivering travel film . |
| 21 | Nor , as these raiders paddled towards an enemy shore , was there more than a canvas skin on its wooden frame between them and a hostile reception . |
| 22 | HOMOSEXUAL patients were victimised as public announcements mocked them and a gays-only toilet was set up . |
| 23 | My nephew , Martin , he 's one of them and a lovely boy . |
| 24 | There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now . |
| 25 | It bound the parties to observe neutrality in the event of war between one of them and a third state and to refrain from any kind of aggression against each other . |
| 26 | Sometimes girls are there because they are very young or they are homeless , sometimes it is because their parents can not cope at home with the responsibility for them and a newborn baby , and in other cases a home takes in and assesses girls whose ability to look after their baby is in question . |
| 27 | It perpetuates the loneliness of the single mother , since both she and a male friend will be cautions of continuing a relationship that can be turned into a financial arrangement on the whim of a civil servant . |
| 28 | Wearing his very best clothes and shoes , he had played all alone in the pouring rain while she and a balding detective discussed important business behind the steamy windows of a police car . |
| 29 | He told Mr Major : ‘ This is a well-deserved honour for you and a great encouragement for all of us who hold the same convictions . ’ |
| 30 | In his message of greetings to Mr Major — in which he used the intimate German du form of address , rather than the formal Sie he uses in exchanges with President Franois Mitterrand — Mr Kohl emphasised that the election result was ‘ a deserved honour for you and a great encouragement for all of us who share the same convictions ’ . |