Example sentences of "and [adj] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This country is in a mess , and that says it all , ’ said one of three petty officers from the anti-submarine vessel Red Crimea . |
| 2 | Our playing partners Paraguay beat us and that says it all really . ’ |
| 3 | questionnaire , and that gives us another reading . |
| 4 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 5 | ‘ And that gives you some sort of hold over me ? ’ |
| 6 | In addressing the problem of how British headhunting firms , in competition with the multinational search companies , were able to create and develop a sustained demand for headhunting services , it would be unnecessarily long-winded and tedious to examine every one in detail , yet at the same time it would be sketchy and uninformative to list them all briefly without analysis , and the basic information is given in the Select Directory . |
| 7 | They never made love with the light on and the act itself was too brief and impersonal to give her any pleasure . |
| 8 | At best , it could be agreed that some people defined the national interest one way and some defined it another way , and each side was equally well-meaning ; only some had pushed their patriotism beyond the law , so keen were they , while others had stopped and thought . |
| 9 | The advantage of using a sound-based code with working memory is that it produces memories which are more durable than those based upon a purely visual code , and this gives us more time to calculate the meaning of the sentence . |
| 10 | She is one of a category of nominated judges who can hear cases under the 1989 Children Act with a public law element , that is where local authorities are involved , and this brings her some particularly sensitive and difficult cases . |
| 11 | Kendall was able to check his results to an extent , since much of his data related to villages whose location was known , and this gave him some confidence in suggesting the locations of the lost villages . |
| 12 | He was willing to go to confirm in an emergency at very short notice and this earned him some long-lasting gratitude . |
| 13 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 14 | A good colourist is like a juggler with ten balls in the air at once and able to catch them all . |
| 15 | She was part of a team and pleased to have it that way . |
| 16 | And now she was quite prepared and calm and ready to end it all . |