Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how I saw it : Henry and Louisa Agnew , long dead but mysteriously alive under this mountain of paper , were one team ; Edward and I the other . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke answered criticism from Cleveland County Council leaders in comparing the money being spent on the City Technology College in Middlesbrough and what the education authority has to spread over the county 's state schools . |
| 3 | I 'll tell you this — if they had tried that on with the Liverpool team of the mid-1960s that included Ron Yeats , Ian St John , Gerry Byrne and myself the match would never have taken place . |
| 4 | Point four erm sentences are made up of noun phrases and verb phrases those phrases can be composed of intransitive verbs standing alone , or transitive verbs and objects so you can have four , the structure what sounds like Florence smiled actually has a structure as on the handout in the sentence composed of a noun phrase and a verb phrase , the noun phrase contains a single noun Florence and the verb phrase contains a single verb smile or you can have something like four two , Florence teased Dougal and there the verb phrase contains the verb teased and another noun phrase containing the single noun Dougal . |
| 5 | ‘ For people like McQuaid and myself the war was the best part of our lives . |
| 6 | The block grant from central government is calculated as the difference between the GRP and what the authority plans to spend , so long as this expenditure is below a government assessment of what the local authority should spend . |
| 7 | Yes er we 're going to the drugs squad Dave and I the launch of a new hotline which is where people can report dealers , a little bit sceptical about its success but we 've spent quite a lot on posters and business cards . |