Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for a bowl , there was an embarrassed silence when no one moved to my aid ( thinking I felt sick ! ) — and my waters soaked the kitchen floor . |
| 2 | He says when I go home tonight I want to be able to have water from my taps — and I want my children and my grand-children to have the water they need to live . |
| 3 | During my term as manager I have made few friends and my enemies stalk the boardroom in ever increasing numbers . |
| 4 | The mosquito net I was using was less than perfect and my limbs touched the net at night , so the mosquitoes lined up on the net and bit me through it . |
| 5 | They all just go past me with their baked beans and their fish fingers and washing powder and chocolate biscuits , and my fingers punch the right figures on the till and I do n't see them at all . |
| 6 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 7 | The responses we received to the consultation document were considered carefully and my officials discussed the issues raised with the auditing practices board and with other interested parties in the regulated sectors . |
| 8 | I began to hum and before I knew it , a tidal wave of crystal-clear sound swept my voice to hitherto undiscovered heights and depths , racing through tunnels of octaves until the sound was n't my own and my ears heard a stranger singing . |
| 9 | I and my colleagues understand the anxiety caused by uncertainties like this and will clarify the position as early as possible . |
| 10 | But cricket has sold its soul , and its rulers have no backbone . |
| 11 | Mansell , 39 , and a winner of 29 GPs went on : ‘ Any relationship between a driver and an F1 team is vital for success and partly dependent on money because it defines how seriously the team and its backers take the driver . |
| 12 | Although the UK parent and its subsidiaries meet the criteria in ( b ) above , they do not meet the criteria in ( a ) because the ultimate parent company is a SEC registrant . |
| 13 | As a system for payment and the organization of underground practice , it was undoubtedly in decline during the decades prior to the Second World War , but the historical legacy of the butty and its ramifications permeated the lives of the miners . |
| 14 | In 1895 the ‘ League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class ’ was set up in St Petersburg and its members made an important contribution to the major strikes of 1896 and 1897 . |
| 15 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Lords , sitting as the final court of appeal , ruled that while the ITC and its members had a moral responsibility to its creditors , the creditors had no contractual claims under English law against the 22 member states of the ITC . |
| 16 | He was deternined to use the dramatic location and its views to make a powerful memorial rather than to build a lofty edifice that would dominate the skyline . |
| 17 | It broadcast music as it passed , and its windows contained the silhouettes of passengers , convincing the less perceptive that it was a double-decker tram . |
| 18 | For the next two or three years the directions , possibilities and practicalities continued to be discussed , with those polytechnic directors on the Council and its committees having a particularly difficult part to play in formulating policy . |
| 19 | And its customers took the hint and bought their Unix systems from Sun Microsystems Inc or aforesaid Hewlett-Packard . |
| 20 | And its findings lay the foundations for Sir Anthony 's conclusion that investors who lost money in Barlow Clowes should receive compensation from the Government . |
| 21 | The magnificent hall itself and its gardens became a tourist attraction . |
| 22 | The actions of Hoover and its attempts to undermine the wages and conditions of union members . |
| 23 | Its credibility has been severely damaged and its attempts to find a solution to the problem have resulted in abject failure . |
| 24 | Anuchin ( 1973 ) in his view of theory in geography has noted the uncertainty which has characterized much of the geography 's growth and its attempts to become an established science when many scientists who were substantially geographers ( he cites V.V. Dokuchaev as an example ) have often preferred to give their activities another name and ( Anuchin , 1973 , p. 44 ) : |
| 25 | But the company and its advisers put a brave face on the outcome yesterday . |
| 26 | 12.3 This Agreement and its Schedules constitute the entire agreement between and and supersedes all earlier communications about the subject matter of this Agreement . |
| 27 | The situation and its elements foreshadow the later confrontation of Sweeney and Doris on their ‘ cannibal isle ’ . |
| 28 | It maintained that " the CSCE [ Conference on Security and Co-Operation in Europe ] process and its institutions play a central role in expanding the network of co-operative relationships across Europe " . |
| 29 | He is expected to use his address to the Diet ( parliament ) during his visit — the first by a Soviet head of state — to try to get a commitment from both the Japanese government and its businessmen to back a hoary old proposal : the formation of an economic group among the countries surrounding the Japan Sea , that is , the Soviet Union , the two Koreas and Japan . |
| 30 | The Crystal Palace and its grounds became a Training Centre for the Royal Navy . |