Example sentences of "[pers pn] and the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We — me and the five other women with whom I work — develop resources and printed materials , and get involved in training youth workers . |
| 2 | Britain and the Soviet Union would want bases in Japan if the United States possessed them and the only wise policy was to ensure that no power had bases on Japanese soil |
| 3 | In order to be authentic it has to be lived in the wider context of the real world in which religious women make their vows , informed both by the relationship they enjoy with the God who calls them and the real live people God gives them to love . |
| 4 | It was another good example of why the sooner it is possible to delay the first round of the World Group matches so that there is more than a full week between them and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year , the better . |
| 5 | He pulled on a pair of folding sunglasses ( the sort you pay an extra load for to have ‘ Porsche ’ stamped across your field of vision ) as he made for the driver 's door , but even with them and the soft brown leather blouson jacket , which made him look a bit like an off-duty copper ( they get them cheap down Brick Lane ) , I still recognized him . |
| 6 | From the second half of the 1960s , the aims of these new sectors and the tensions between them and the Francoist old guard would contribute to the build-up of pressure for democracy which characterized the last decade of Franco 's life . |
| 7 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 8 | The precise course of such relations and the detailed moral requirements they generate depend on the way individuals choose to develop them and the different normative implications with which they deliberately endow the relations . |
| 9 | Some of its members had moved in left-wing circles before the war and there was tension between them and the permanent civil servants . |
| 10 | She liked the morning best , for it was then that she and the three other women who formed a team for one section of the building did the rooms , emptying waste-paper baskets , running a duster over desks , and vacuum.cleaning floors . |
| 11 | Instead , shutters on the walls can be turned to horizontal , with only a fine insect mesh between you and the cooling Caribbean breezes blowing through your room . |
| 12 | Every year we and the national Young Solicitors Group jointly arrange the visit by the chairmen of various overseas young bars for the Opening of the Legal Year , which is our chance to repay the hospitality offered to us by them . |
| 13 | That is why we and the Scottish National party have suggested a local income tax . |
| 14 | Stephen had asked her to join him and the new general manager in his office that morning , and she had been eager to meet the young hotelier who came so highly qualified . |
| 15 | Sometimes he would forget himself in the beauty of their flight , not understanding why people would come to see him and the other miserable eagles caged and confined and not seem to even notice the gulls and bold black rooks soaring freely and so beautifully above their heads . |
| 16 | Him and the entire Nazi party . ’ |
| 17 | And then she knelt over him and the round childish face with its bush of bright hair shut out the sky . |
| 18 | His doubted claims to have been the greatest mountaineer of his generation have foundation in fact , despite the hostility which existed between him and the English Alpine Club . |
| 19 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 20 | I had to sit in silence for twenty minutes with him and the weird Indian music . |
| 21 | When Mrs Thatcher took office in May 1979 it was assumed that southern Africa would cause a massive rift between her and the black African states of the Commonwealth . |
| 22 | The same autograph-hunting crowds wait for her and the same bland interviewers are at hand to ask the same repetitive questions for TV , radio , newspaper or magazines . |
| 23 | The Crown described how Maher held a gun to Mrs Kennedy 's neck when the men first arrived , bundling her and the three terrified boys upstairs to the bathroom , where they bound and gagged them . |
| 24 | The pack kept winning good ball for Colchester but they were unable to do much with it and the only other score of the half was a penalty by Hepburn . |
| 25 | The only of the government is that they waived it and the only other way is the A A who just see the pound notes coming in . |
| 26 | He may well be right ; however , unlettered in the period though I am , I seem to hear fairly clear stylistic connections between it and the 4-Part Mass Pater Creator Omnium , which is securely and explicitly dated in the manuscript to 1546 . |
| 27 | With the South Downs behind it and the turbulent grey English Channel in front , the Lord Willington Nursing Home looked like a country mansion . |
| 28 | The research aims to provide a comprehensive account of the last subsistence crisis in mainland Britain , by tracing its origins , the experience of the society during it and the long-term demographic , social and economic consequences for the highland area as a whole . |
| 29 | The nave arcade is high but there is no triforium between it and the round-headed clerestory windows . |
| 30 | When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus . |