Example sentences of "and [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a quarter of a millennium of Guinnesses ; every one at the head of the company and everyone a direct descendant of Elizabeth and Richard Guinness ( 1 ) ( c. 1690–1766 ) of Celbridge , Co . |
| 2 | ‘ You listen to me , Corby , ’ he says as if he was a hundred years old and me a little kid . |
| 3 | and me a little baby |
| 4 | and me a little baby me |
| 5 | It was from here , I reflected , looking through the windows at a small scattered town , that the despatcher had spoken to George and me the previous evening : and while I watched , George appeared outside and was met by a man who came from the station . |
| 6 | ‘ He is my husband and I a dutiful wife . |
| 7 | I had the Sta Prest and I the short hair , and every party you went to it would be all Tamla and Blue Beat and ska . |
| 8 | The old man was shouting hoarsely , and someone a long way off was answering — and running , too , for she could feel the vibration of rapid footsteps . |
| 9 | Rolt was distantly related to Kyrle Willans , the son of Peter Willans , inventor of the enclosed vertical central valve steam engine , and himself a mechanical engineer . |
| 10 | Monty , my former editor and himself a great friend of Caroline 's father , proposed the health of the Bride and Groom . |
| 11 | As he said to Count Walewski , his Ambassador in London ( and himself the illegitimate son of Napoleon I ) , ‘ Mon cher , je suis pris ’ , and there seems no reason to doubt this . |
| 12 | and there 'll be talk of another Grand National in Gloucestershire on Sunday when David Nicholson opens up his new stables at Jackdaws Castle for the very first time … they 'll be off and running there at half past ten … and its a sure winner for a good day out |
| 13 | There 's lots of music and its a good night out for families . |
| 14 | She says the profit margins in Britain have been higher than abroad and its a good thing that prices are now falling , although it will mean some of the ’ luxury ’ element is lost . |
| 15 | in Barbados and er some young chaps had saw me lying on the beach and er they stole my bag and they stuck a gun in my face and freeze lady , you do n't do any thing , you just let them take what they want and its a horrible feeling when your there , we were there for three weeks and it just totally spoiled the holiday but the ramifications of it do n't just stop once you got on the plane home , it was very frightening |
| 16 | Well I can say personally that I went from a size twelve to a twenty and its a medical problem , its the , not an eating one though , you know any thing to with any diet or any thing like that , completely medical so er it takes a bit of coping with when you 've been slim and then all of a sudden you have this weight that , no diet will remove . |
| 17 | A mile to the west of Loch Gorm the road to Gruinart cuts through a settlement at An Sithern of about a dozen round houses which were constructed in the late Bronze Age and which a cursory examination has shown that they were used at least three times . |
| 18 | But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner . |
| 19 | There was nothing he had to do to earn it , or nothing to threaten his security , except a too-rapid recovery , which he daily prayed against and which a good God would surely not allow — at least until summer came in and clothed a scarred earth with kindliness . |
| 20 | He saw one of his jobs as keeping his ear to the ground on Blanche 's behalf , trying to catch discontent while it was no more than a distant rumble and to spot which detectives needed encouragement and which a gentle kick up the backside . |
| 21 | On the principles relating to constructive knowledge in the ticket cases , the documents upon which standard terms and conditions are usually printed ( quotations , order forms and acknowledgments ) are clearly the sort of document where one would expect to find terms and conditions , and which a reasonable man would read carefully . |
| 22 | It should be apparent from the fact that we can tell these two texts apart — tell which one is discourse , and which a constructed text — that our choices among the options for arranging the information are neither arbitrary , nor just aesthetic devices to ensure variety , but have some communicative function , making discourse more readily comprehensible . |
| 23 | This will state the gross amount of relevant state benefits paid to the plaintiff , for which the plaintiff must give credit and which the compensating defendant must reimburse the Department of Social Security . |
| 24 | What happens depends on which is the destabilizing and which the stabilizing component ; the two cases constitute Sections 23.2 and 23.3 . |
| 25 | I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on . |
| 26 | Parliament granted the fixed and certain term which the agreements between the parties lacked in the case of tenancies for the duration of the war and which the present agreement lacks . |
| 27 | Inevitably this proximity involved a fair amount of touching and occasional pressures , which the man found very much to his taste , and which the young woman at least did not object to sufficiently to draw away to the limits of her corner . |
| 28 | I scarcely know which is memory and which the recent dream . |
| 29 | This went to the heart of a question which the WEA is never able to ignore and which the Eastern District had particular cause to ponder in this period : how should the full-time professional tutor-organiser fit into a voluntary movement ? |
| 30 | When she applies this to her test situations , however , she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies . |