Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 It is at these stages of the process that the professional judgement and experience of the assessor and her/his ability to exercise a range of analytic and negotiating skills is of fundamental importance .
2 may already have spoken to you about her and my plan to have a training/recreation weekend in St Andrews ( Saturday ) and Edinburgh ( Friday evening and Sunday ) in the autumn , 19–21 November ,
3 Later that evening , they were in a pub and my friend placed a pound coin in another condom machine .
4 I felt my stomach lurch and my heart beat a little faster .
5 I 've had erm on two separate Sundays I 've had volunteers to come and help but and my son-in-law made a silt trap , and the Water Board erm made the sluice gate , because it goes into their stream , and it was part of their responsibility .
6 Malc 's large , happy family filled a quarter of the church , Pop and my Mom filled a quarter of a pew and the rest of the church was bursting at the seams with most of the council estate , curious as to whether I was ‘ showing ’ or not .
7 The nearest one is in the next townland and my bicycle has a puncture .
8 Dorothy had a lot of shopping to do and my daughter took a little time off school to take us around . ‘
9 My kids want to go for a visit and my daughter wants a picture of our home …
10 And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something .
11 well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third
12 Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound .
13 In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) .
14 No matter how corny the characters in the picture postcard parish of Rathcullen , I recognised the fields , I knew the smell of Guinness from drunk men 's breath , and my father wore a cap just like Darby O'Gill 's .
15 Well I used to ride a motorbike a and my father had a Triumph motorbike because he bought I do n't why he , why he bought it and he was terrified of it cos it was very fierce !
16 Neither had " a head for figures " the venture failed within months and my father found a job as a tradesman again .
17 I organized that at Conway Hall now , in most reference books my agent 's name is listed , and my agent got a call saying the minute I began to read from that book I would die .
18 I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’
19 My father was a landscape architect , and my mother ran a nursery .
20 There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time .
21 We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment .
22 ‘ My father was the driest comedian you ever heard , and my mother had a wonderful singing voice — much better than mine , ’ Lynne says .
23 And he and my mother had a disagreement about this and er the result was that my father became very ill and I went home to Grandma .
24 When the war ended my father remained in the Army , and my mother became a dressmaker to her friends and the neighbours .
25 As I 've told you , my father was a landscape architect , and my mother started a small business growing herbs and old-fashioned roses to start with .
26 Musically it 's more in keeping with the spirit of The Jam or The Who than anything Five Thirty have done and its ferocity conceals a highly charged politically-oriented lyric .
27 Musically it 's more in keeping with the spirit of The Jam or The Who than anything Five Thirty have done and its ferocity conceals a highly charged politically-oriented lyric .
28 Furthermore , the relationship between the method used and its purpose form a kind of continuum from this ‘ soft ’ end of formative assessment to the ‘ hard ’ summative end which is characterized by external examinations .
29 It is a large cathedral and its interior retains a Medieval sense of spirituality .
30 Yet it also testified to the increasing power of the new medical strategy and its ability to force a dialogue with competing political forces .
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