Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the prayers the curandero ritually burns coca leaves on the fire and everyone leaves the enclosures for a feast of specially prepared local food . |
| 2 | Nobody appeared to give orders , and everyone performed the tasks which most suited his mood of the moment . |
| 3 | We go through the whole song with both of us making the noises and me doing the actions . |
| 4 | And I get the results for when I come back then . |
| 5 | This game from Infogrames deserves much success and I envy the talents of the programmers concerned . |
| 6 | Robert Norster confirmed ‘ we plan to have people at all the major tournaments and I hope the players will realise they are being watched ’ . |
| 7 | I personally have much to be grateful for to those linguists who have gone on ahead and erected signposts , and I hope the examples I have used today illustrate my conviction that , notwithstanding its theoretical manoeuverings and terminological idiosyncrasies , an awareness of the questions and findings of linguistic research can help turn our language study into what it should be , a voyage of discovery . |
| 8 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |
| 9 | And I remember the days when readers had a bit more respect for us hard-working mortals ! |
| 10 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 11 | Anyway er I went out and I shut the gates and just let them know that you know , they 'd sort of I wa I was checking |
| 12 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 13 | And of course , as I told you long ago , you are beautiful , and I like the looks I get from other men when I 'm with a beautiful woman . ’ |
| 14 | Into this I placed little ‘ oily ’ pools where cancer cells were setting up their colonies and I imagined the cells themselves as amoeba or tadpole like creatures , smooth , slippery and with large eyes . |
| 15 | That report was sent to our national executive committee and on May the nineteenth the leader of the Labour party stated and I quote , the plant committee concludes that different elected bodies can be chosen by different electoral systems , that is the view which I share and I support the proposals made both for a reformed second chamber and the European parliament . |
| 16 | Eric , Paul and I got the goalposts together while Blyth hurriedly strapped his leg on . |
| 17 | Well almost I got the cupboard done and I got the tiles lying by the side of the hob , but they have n't yet been cut to fit erm and glued down but one of these day 's he 'll get around to it . |
| 18 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
| 19 | And I mean the nurses and everybody , the doctors were really great , and they give us the best of treatment there , and I do n't think you 'll speak to anybody that was in the hospital that 'll say anything differently , they were really great . |
| 20 | yeah , they 're not even allowed free travel in their own country , but they are , it 's a police state , they are checked and double-checked , and I mean the things we hear now about , they have a lot of Philippine workers there |
| 21 | And I mean the banks have erm er r really been an i indicator of economic performance , and , and that , that 's the case . |
| 22 | And I mean the kids the kids that we yo yo some kids er , I mean they were just beautiful and other kids lost them within a couple of days ! |
| 23 | To my surprise the house lights were full on , and I heard the sounds of the violin coming from our big room . |
| 24 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 25 | That pronunciation is a mistake that I made all the time that I worked in Scotland and I know the sensitivities which it aroused . |
| 26 | Erm and so even if we had a full employment situation , we would still need an economic bonus strategy and I know the Conservatives wo n't agree with that , they were very reluctant the last administration to think about economic developments at all but , er eventually they realised the recession was quite er , quite serious . |
| 27 | ‘ Doctors only deal with symptoms and I know the causes are too deep for them . |
| 28 | The the premise on this was what what do parents , and I know the words are wrong but at least it moved people along way er er er what do parents want to know about their youngsters ? |
| 29 | And I know the scores of an iron crow on stone too well not to know how these frets were made . |
| 30 | And I miss the children . |