Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 2 | blow , hard , trouble is you blow and nothing comes out the area oh that 's good , do that again like that that 's it |
| 3 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 4 | When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’ |
| 5 | The one you 're walking out with , the one Gazzer and me saw down the prom . ’ |
| 6 | The memory of lightning flaring between the cracks in the boards and me pushing home the four-inch nails with numb fingers arrived simultaneous with the patter of descending footsteps … |
| 7 | I know that in the mundane , the thought of never having been understood or recognised rankles ; but the transcendent joy is the greater and I get instead the hidden flowers of sorrow of my own soul with their scent and their beauty . |
| 8 | Mum and I get on a lot better these days . |
| 9 | The driver calls ‘ Loving ’ and I get off the bus … ’ |
| 10 | Well I I went out to them , and because I heard banging , and I looked out the window and they were hacking at my fence , and I went out bu and was playing war with them when Jim crossed the road with one of them following behind and away down the street , and I thought oh ! |
| 11 | And I looked out the window , I could n't see anybody next thing a car moved off so whether it was same crowd I do n't |
| 12 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 13 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 14 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 15 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 16 | ‘ Jeffrey and I go back an awful long way , and it makes a lot of sense for him to be published by us on both sides of the Atlantic , ’ Mr Bell commented . |
| 17 | And I go there every month . |
| 18 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
| 19 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 20 | Runaways were commonplace , and I remember when a bull , on its way back to Milford Station , thought enough was enough , broke free and terrorised the neighbouring streets for about half-an-hour before recapture . |
| 21 | It was n't the only operation that went into the shredder at that time — you could figure that for yourself So Arnie went to London and closed it off wiped our prints off everything and I shut down the Langley end . |
| 22 | Above the chasms we stopped and I kicked out a shelf for the camera bags . |
| 23 | I sent off my $5 and I got back a list of occupations : TV repairman , shoe salesman , musician , fireman , axe murderer . |
| 24 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 25 | And I mean over the years you can sort of pick a sample out and say ‘ It 's pretty close , this one ’ ; or , y'know , ‘ Do something about it ’ , there and then , if you think there is anything that can be done . |
| 26 | the real old gardeners and I mean well every house had one because they used to grow their own vegetables did n't they ? |
| 27 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 28 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 29 | And I heard how the music acquired a force his understanding lacked . |
| 30 | Silver sent Dick to fetch the rum , then Israel said something to the cook in a low voice , and I heard only a word or two . |