Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb -s] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And nothing succeeds like success . |
| 2 | Anyway , the Christian Socialists ' Association for Co-operative Production failed ; and nothing fails like failure . |
| 3 | And I says to Steve , I says , I ca n't keep affording this ! |
| 4 | And I says to Ray , are n't we using hopper nineteen ? |
| 5 | I ca n't , our Margaret 's drying it on radiators , and I says to Albert , what me mum doing with the dryer . |
| 6 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 7 | No no y No nobody 's thought of it until I stood there and watched it and I says to George the operator , I says , Right we 're gon na put a new chiller on here . |
| 8 | I went in John 's shop and I goes to John have you seen Maggie ? |
| 9 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
| 10 | Well I 'm a bit worried when people are buying these guarantees and someone goes into liquidation , like for instance if you buy an extended warranty then usually dealers tie up with one particular broker specialising in that form of insurance , and and if that particular dealer — the car dealer — gets the insurance and it 's in his or her name |
| 11 | The syllabus , after all , is no more than a sketch of the terrain ; the scheme of work is a strategic plan which identifies objectives and tactics , and which allows for review and reinforcement . |
| 12 | This is the unspoken assumption which seems to underlie much stratigraphical thought and which says in effect that if one looks ( and argues ) long enough and hammers hard enough , then eventually one glorious day one will come upon the golden horizon that really is the Silurian/Devonian boundary . |
| 13 | Walkers will enjoy the Cotswold Way , which runs for 102 miles from Chipping Campden to Bath and which passes through Winchcombe . |
| 14 | Instead , the idea of a continuum emerged ( Pahl , 1 966b ) based on the degree of urbanization experienced in an area and in the early 1970s Rogers and Burdge ( 1972 ) produced the continuum which is shown below and which depends upon population size , population density and the degree to which the community members observe rural or urban norms . |
| 15 | Gallo also quoted some of the latest work of Daniel Zagury 's team which has discovered a pentapeptide motif in gp120 which is also present in CD4 and which interferes with antigen activation possibly leading to a state of cell anergy and immunodeficiency . |
| 16 | Rawls ' Kantian constructivist approach to ethics suggest an argument for political neutrality which is in part independent of the one criticised above and which turns on autonomy : |
| 17 | The most dangerous of all the spiders is the black widow , a small species that is common throughout America and which responds to vibrations of its web by rushing out and biting what it considers to be its next meal . |
| 18 | Under the leadership of Paolo and Laura Mora , they reconstructed portions of fresco such as the ‘ Seraph ’ , shown in the Mantegna exhibition which was at the Royal Academy in London and which opens in New York this month . |
| 19 | Mike and Lindy are full of suggestions as to where the prettiest spots are and which stretches of canal have the best pubs . |
| 20 | European Community Directive 89/48/EEC , which is concerned with the mutual recognition of professional qualifications and which comes into force throughout the Community in January 1991 , has already been implemented by the UK , as regards teachers , with effect from September 1989 . |
| 21 | Bedbug , which is a true bug , of the order Hemiptera , and which lies in wait for warm , still bodies . |
| 22 | For this is above all a discourse which ties a congenital link between origins and destinies , and which draws on images of birth and blood , the functions of the body and sexual reproduction , kinship and filiation , to do so . |
| 23 | ‘ Our club ’ presumably overlaps while being smaller than ‘ the best circles ’ of this society , whereas the ‘ they ’ of ‘ the whole town ’ is sometimes , but only sometimes , the ‘ we ’ of ‘ our town ’ ; and ‘ our group ’ which springs out of ‘ my ’ special relationship with Stepan Verkhovensky and which gathers round Mrs Stavrogin , Nicholas 's mother and Stepan 's patroness , is different again and again overlapping ; and the ‘ all ’ buried inside the phrase ‘ our ‘ old man ’ — as we all used to call Stepan Trofimovich among ourselves ’ is probably though not certainly synonymous with this ‘ group ’ ; while Dostoevsky delights in sly collective evocations like ‘ civic grief ’ and in parcellings-out like ‘ the poorest expectant mothers of the town ’ , and in fouling the whole snobbish provincial nest with such carefully calculated absurdities as ‘ almost the whole town , that is of course the entire top stratum of our society ’ . |
| 24 | The best guess appears to be that the debris are fragments of hydroids — an aquatic plant which resembles grass in appearance and which grows on rocks and inside open pipes . |
| 25 | One of the best guides to works currently in print , and which deals with publications on local history and the associated fields of genealogy and the material heritage , is the annual catalogue issued by the well known specialist booksellers and publishers , Phillimore . |
| 26 | Erm I think the stockings is turning slightly more Jewish cos I remember Katy a friend of mine and who goes to Channing he , he had the same problem . |
| 27 | However they should not be a worry for a pilot who is well trained , and who keeps in practice and thinks about the conditions before each flight . |
| 28 | The man who is in charge of that ( and who appears in action in BBC 's ‘ Vietnam — The country not the war ’ ) is Professor Vo Quy of Hanoi University . |
| 29 | nearly everyone who is 18 or over and who lives in Oxford will have to pay the Personal Poll Tax in Oxford . |
| 30 | ‘ Is there a problem ? ’ a voice from behind Angelica says , and she turns in surprise . |