Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This morning I spoke briefly to Terry Waite while he was on board the aircraft returning home and was able to express the delight that I and the whole country felt at his safe return and at Mr. Sutherland 's release . |
2 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
3 | As the house becomes more and more popular , we are attracting quite a select clientele — some of whom I feel would be on yours and every other society guest list . " |
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 | Her knees touched his and the tiny contact sent a quiver of anticipation up her spine . |
8 | Now the prize was his and the serious work was begun . |
9 | The main reason why working-class youths did not invade the pitch in the 1930s was because the ground was theirs and the playing area was sacred ( Taylor , 1971a ) . |
10 | Immediately after this big moment the earth is convulsed with horror we have Eve 's first speech , presumably after the fall the first speech in a state of sin , and this is it ‘ Oh sovereign virtuous , precious of all trees in Paradise , of operation blest to sapinense hitherto obscured in famed and thy fair fruit let hang as to not end created , but henceforth my early care not without song each morning and dew/due pray shall tend thee and the fertile burden ease of thy full branches offered free to all . |
11 | with Thee and the Holy Ghost , |
12 | I remembered what Agrippa had told me and a faint suspicion stirred . |
13 | I was out of my depth : she was a lot heavier than me and a bloody sight more determined . |
14 | It 's a great pleasure to me and a certain indication of satisfaction that many of them are regulars . |
15 | 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 ! |
16 | Just you and me and a force-ten gale . ’ |
17 | ‘ She 's as active as you or me and a damn sight tougher . |
18 | Andrew added : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . ’ |
19 | Andrew said : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . |
20 | It 's a great adventure for me and a big challenge . |
21 | He watched me and the unmade bed , |
22 | So me and the other girl left that evening to go to work . |
23 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
24 | ‘ The nurses panicked and made me and the other mother sign forms saying that we definitely had our own babies . ’ |
25 | 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 . |
26 | So Mr talked in the debate about internal reorganisation about continuing to provide services for which there is an over provision and it berated me and the Labour group for that . |
27 | That was one night after we had stopped and I stayed on and me and the assistant engineer just hooked that up together . |
28 | All at once I was gusted along , and really felt : a heartbeat when I saw him , a warmth when he touched me ; I smelt the flowers he bought me and the spicy perfume he put on his skin . |
29 | There 'll be a fork supper to follow and we would adore a short speech , say twenty minutes on a theme of your choice relating to ‘ Me and the Great Outdoors ’ . |
30 | I hope that the people who have awarded themselves excessive pay rises will hear that from me and the hon. Gentleman . |