Example sentences of "and [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times he lent Brian and me a 410 shotgun and took us shooting along the shore , and when we got back told his skinner to stuff the birds we had shot ; I was thrilled by these expeditions . |
| 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 | ‘ He is my husband and I a dutiful wife . |
| 6 | And oh Yeah , we went round from one house to the other and you A whole week of it it was more or less . |
| 7 | Peggy smiled and , looking towards her stepfather , she said , ‘ Yes , I can imagine how he gets on your nerves , ’ at the same time questioning why her mother should be so happy , and she a settled woman forty years old , whereas she was twenty-one and so miserable inside that there were days where she wanted to take to her heels and run . |
| 8 | The friar was sure he had seen her lying in the graveyard amongst the tombs with Simon the tiler , and he a married man with three children . |
| 9 | When in 1732 , to quote only two British cases , the representative of George II in Turin was promoted from minister plenipotentiary to full ambassador , this was a clear indication of a desire in London to improve relations between the two states ( especially as the diplomat in question was an earl ) , while simultaneously the strained Anglo-Prussian relations of the 1730s were reflected in the fact that Britain was represented in Berlin throughout the decade by a mere secretary ( and he a humble army captain ) . |
| 10 | Then she herself had become a star and he a streaking comet flying towards her . |
| 11 | Perhaps this portended some new way of their living together , based upon respect , courtesy , formality , even awe , as if Franca were an abbess , or a dowager empress , and he a local nobleman , privileged to be a frequent visitor . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |