Example sentences of "and [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fairly young man in Italian leisure wear from the waist down and nothing but a tan from the waist up appeared from a cabin , ready to repel boarders . |
| 2 | I just want someone to know that this — all this stuff — has been a burden and nothing but a burden from start to finish , and that I feel no twinge of regret at coming out of that place , and that I shall never go back into it , ever , so help me Frederica Potter . |
| 3 | This has one tiresome consequence , that if one knows only the short title and calendar year , the statute may sometimes be in either of two volumes , and nothing but a process of trial and error can ascertain which . |
| 4 | As the saying goes ‘ we clicked ’ and thus began a friendship and correspondence between Ella Shields and me over a period of years until her death in 1952 . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , was he ! ’ they say , and dismiss Mr Wood as a nonentity , and me as a pedant or a poseur . |
| 6 | " I did a Viva in Oxford , just me and all the dons , all , in robes and furred gowns , and me with a blackboard explaining Milton 's English and Latin words . |
| 7 | As for Dawson , he almost ignored it , and me for a time . |
| 8 | ‘ Miss Fitch took Edward and me for a walk and we gathered stones and pebbles . |
| 9 | But nonetheless , I think we as county councillors can be proud of the fact that we have set a spending target for committees , we are prepared to allow the officers to manage their departments inside the targets that have been set , and that does mean that they have to look at er , what they 're spending and create priorities , and and I as a councillor am not in the least bit impressed by arguments that paper clips have increased by five and a half percent this year , and that felt l er pe felt line erm , pens have gone up by seventeen and a half percent , I think that 's largely irrelevant consideration , we 're not in the business of projecting budget , we 're in the business of providing money to deliver high quality services to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 10 | aye but I mean some of them are on this Committee as well I mean Wendy and I for a start erm so that would be good right let's try and give that one a |
| 11 | Yanto watched the smoke from his cigarette drift lazily up the shaft of the sunbeam which bathed Molly and himself through a gap in the greenery above . |
| 12 | She was still golden , and silken , and goddess-like , and had welcomed John and Astorre and himself with a kind of free , self-possessed amusement that had seemed to make them at once her long-established friends . |
| 13 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 14 | Yes I just wondered if I could ask Mr er if it was item nine page seven yes , its item nine erm row five and its about a report being brought to the committee on trans proportion policies relating to public transport by extending free transport to school children and students beyond the statuary obligations of the council . |
| 15 | As Tim said you have to hold on to the fact that these are real characters and their in a kind of confrontational situation here are n't they ? |
| 16 | And somebody with a pan on their head ! |
| 17 | I was now at the mercy of others and nobody in a position of authority had , so far , shown any great desire to help . |
| 18 | Theatre invites you to give your full attention to what is happening on stage — the theatrical experience is a very concentrated one and you as a member of the audience are vitally connected to what is going on . |
| 19 | ‘ And you without a job ? |
| 20 | Two of its members are elected every six months to act as Captains-Regent ( currently Adolmiro Bartolini and Ottaviano Rossi ) , with the functions of head of state , and who with a Congress of State exercise executive power . |
| 21 | This is Michael Wayland , who appears on television a lot , and who as a consequence can never remember anything unless it 's written on the Autocue , or held up beside the lens in front of him . |
| 22 | ‘ But I feel dismay , sorrow , for so many people in our country who do not share this personal good fortune and who as a result of further years of Tory government will experience further disadvantage . |
| 23 | And who as a result has acquired a rather topsy-turvy view of her own importance . |
| 24 | And she with a squad of her own . |
| 25 | He for a boy and she for a girl and it for anything . |
| 26 | He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter . |
| 27 | For page one three four and T U P E , yes , well we have done quite an extensive document , there 's been a lot done about T U P E in the public sector we 've done it in the government sector and given guidelines , and T U P E , while it is like you rightly say , a step forward , it 's not the total answer we need something better , but it does level out the playing field that the cowboys can find it difficult in and we as a union are advocating to our members where there is a transfer taking place , whether there 's a change to your employment challenge it and we will support that challenge with the necessary legal interpretation if so . |
| 28 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 29 | These have countersunk screw holes , pointing in different directions — usually two for screws going into the back of the mirror frame , and one for a screw going into the wall . |
| 30 | Herman had two copies of her book for her to sign — one for himself and one for a friend . |