Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is an angel , ’ people told her and that winter she began to think he really might be . |
| 2 | There was only one way in , by the drawbridge and the gate-towers ; he had racked his brains for an alternative , but there was none , short of procuring an ally within the walls , and that idea he did not entertain for a moment . |
| 3 | Believe me , with that body and that head he does look like an alien ! |
| 4 | ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record . |
| 5 | By 1785 the owner was William Fryer and that year he leased the mill for 21 years to the partnership of Henry Hicks and Edward Sheppard who , in years to come , were to found one of the county 's largest cloth mills in Uley . |
| 6 | The selection of print and design according to the house was not the usual way round but it was much more luxurious and that way we produced results that were unique . |
| 7 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 8 | down valley yesterday and that way you know |
| 9 | You opened the door into the corridor but not the window into the sun and that way you got — but perhaps this was fancy — a draught of air . |
| 10 | And that way you do n't have to just sort of |
| 11 | I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to . |
| 12 | Her solution was to become so thin that she was extremely plain and ‘ ill ’ looking , and that way she felt she avoided the sense of being in competition with her mother , removing herself from the battle zone . |
| 13 | We like , we have erm a sort of er we have a current affairs and that night we pick up , we all have a say on something that 's be topical on the television that particular week . |
| 14 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 15 | The Warrington by-election was held in mid-July , and that night I went with Neil Kinnock and David Owen to BBC Television Centre to await the result . |
| 16 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Neither party seem too interested in the other , and that night I dream about Enoch Powell showing me around a slum street with a vile grin on his face . |
| 18 | Instinct told her what that ‘ something ’ was and that night she talked until the small hours with her flatmates discussing what she should do . |
| 19 | A crowd of 15,000 gathered outside the meeting place , refusing to allow Chand to leave until an agreement had been reached , and that night he offered his resignation . |
| 20 | Foinavon passed the post with his ears pricked and that night he ate up just as usual . |
| 21 | This stopped the hiccups and calmed him down , and that night he slept for sixteen hours . |
| 22 | I certainly Mr Chairman welcome this paper erm and I know today that I think possibly the main reason being erm , I could be deemed also been through and through today responding to our local issue and that maybe due to May fever , I do n't know , erm , in really accepting acknowledging as I have done in the past your efforts , erm the county surveyor 's efforts for this part of Suffolk I do again bring to your attention and I do n't think is being critical in that the Barnet by bypass is part of a far bigger jigsaw and that jigsaw I say not |
| 23 | He began ‘ running down ’ to Suffolk at weekends on his own , and that Christmas he had his wife accompany him for four days , taking all the Christmas food with them . |
| 24 | Our hotel , the Atlantico , overlooked the harbour , and that evening we watched a local single-engined plane repeatedly flying over the harbour as low as a couple of hundred feet above the cranes . |
| 25 | And that evening I thought how unkind , how unjust , Biddy was to me . |
| 26 | We were there on 3rd May 1945 when Rangoon was liberated , and that evening I gave a short broadcast over All-India Radio , telling our friends in India and Burma that we should shortly be back in the liberated city to help with the tremendous task of reconstruction . |
| 27 | He saw his chance , and that evening he strangled her . |
| 28 | His job is to clean along the paths of the Zoo and that thing he pushes is for the rubbish he collects , and along its side he has two brooms and a shovel . |
| 29 | yeah I went in for me fags and that lass she stood , she said I 'm waiting to see what you saying I says forty , I says I get forty every day and by Friday |
| 30 | We had been told our King was ill and that morning we commended George VI to God 's loving care . |