Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | She 's my only daughter and I took out an endowment for her at birth in preparation for this . |
| 3 | My wife and I waited over an hour for our meal last night and it 's been the same throughout our stay . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She wants me with her , although a great friend , Lady Bartlett , goes with her sons , and I believe too an aunt of mine . |
| 5 | These had deeds of Herakles and Theseus , and an Amazonomachy , presumably that at Themiscyra , the city of the Amazons , where Theseus accompanied Herakles on his quest for Hippolyta 's girdle and himself brought back an Amazon bride , Antiope . |
| 6 | If you do not weigh for a year and you eat just an extra 500 calories each day during that time , you will have put on a full 45 lb ( 21.8 kg ) ; rather a nasty shock ! |
| 7 | Instead of your call drowning or being drowned by another , it is intercepted by Contran and you hear either an amplified version of the other call or a brief squelch-like sound in your headset . |
| 8 | Her grey eyes widened , and she bit back an involuntary exclamation . |
| 9 | The television above was on and she watched casually an advert . |
| 10 | Her own body felt as though it was burning up with fever , and she put out an unsteady hand to touch his face . |
| 11 | As expected , I found Prince Charles very easy to talk with and we had quite an informal chat , mostly about boats of course , before I stepped backwards along the red carpet with my medal pinned on . |
| 12 | Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’ |
| 13 | More formally , if equations ( 3.6 ) — ( 3.8 ) are the ‘ truth ’ and we carry out an ordinary least-squares regression of C t on Y t , as shown in equation ( 3.9 ) , then , assuming that we have a very large sample so that we can use population variances in place of sample variances , our estimator of will tend to the conventional formula : where is the covariance between C and Y and is the variance of Y. |
| 14 | They discovered it had been hired by a Swiss honeymoon couple and they put out an alert for them . |
| 15 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 16 | Finally , his inductivist conscience was satisfied and he carried out an inductive inference to conclude , ‘ I am always fed at 9 a.m . ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Budgie is one of Amy 's favourite drummers , and he brought in an African tribal kind of feel to the album . |
| 18 | So we get him back and he gets maybe an extra six months for going over the wall . |
| 19 | Perhaps he saw it , for his face relaxed at once and he held out an arm to her . |
| 20 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
| 21 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 22 | Mr Goodwin then phoned the company to check his facts , and it took out an injunction to prevent his publishers , Morgan Grampian , publishing the information — which it said could severely damage confidence among customers and suppliers . |
| 23 | a body corporate ( other than open-ended investment companies ) to persons it reasonably believes to be members or creditors or holders of other investments issued by it ( or another group company ) and it contains only an invitation relating to that investment |
| 24 | Yet our eyes lingered , and hers conveyed both an indication and a warning : Subtlety may win me , but force never will . |