Example sentences of "and [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | More than a quarter of a millennium of Guinnesses ; every one at the head of the company and everyone a direct descendant of Elizabeth and Richard Guinness ( 1 ) ( c. 1690–1766 ) of Celbridge , Co . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ You listen to me , Corby , ’ he says as if he was a hundred years old and me a little kid . |
4 | and me a little baby |
5 | and me a little baby me |
6 | It was from here , I reflected , looking through the windows at a small scattered town , that the despatcher had spoken to George and me the previous evening : and while I watched , George appeared outside and was met by a man who came from the station . |
7 | ‘ He is my husband and I a dutiful wife . |
8 | First , if the specimen is subjected to axial stress — as well as the twist , then as Biot ( 1939 ) has shown , Equation ( 5.3 ) needs to be modified so that where is the applied torque and I the second moment of area of the cross-section with respect to the twist axis . |
9 | We worked together to form the committee for the release of Soviet Jewry , of which he was the first secretary and I the first chairman . |
10 | I wonder what it would be like if you were the last man in the world , and I the last woman ? |
11 | I had the Sta Prest and I the short hair , and every party you went to it would be all Tamla and Blue Beat and ska . |
12 | The old man was shouting hoarsely , and someone a long way off was answering — and running , too , for she could feel the vibration of rapid footsteps . |
13 | Rolt was distantly related to Kyrle Willans , the son of Peter Willans , inventor of the enclosed vertical central valve steam engine , and himself a mechanical engineer . |
14 | Colin McEachran , the council vice-chairman and himself a former Games shooting silver medallist , said : ‘ We 're aiming the appeal at the whole spectrum of Scottish life . |
15 | The son of the legendary Derek and himself a former Gloucestershire player , Shackleton also took 5 for 13 to bowl out Cheshire for 80 in their second innings as they lost to Dorset at Dorchester . |
16 | A statement made by Daniel McPhee , the travellers ' spokesman and himself a former traveller agrees with what the police super . |
17 | However , I kept trying and with the help of Mr Norman Tebbit , our then junior minister and himself a former airline pilot , the project went through . |
18 | Monty , my former editor and himself a great friend of Caroline 's father , proposed the health of the Bride and Groom . |
19 | As he said to Count Walewski , his Ambassador in London ( and himself the illegitimate son of Napoleon I ) , ‘ Mon cher , je suis pris ’ , and there seems no reason to doubt this . |
20 | and there 'll be talk of another Grand National in Gloucestershire on Sunday when David Nicholson opens up his new stables at Jackdaws Castle for the very first time … they 'll be off and running there at half past ten … and its a sure winner for a good day out |
21 | There 's lots of music and its a good night out for families . |
22 | She says the profit margins in Britain have been higher than abroad and its a good thing that prices are now falling , although it will mean some of the ’ luxury ’ element is lost . |
23 | in Barbados and er some young chaps had saw me lying on the beach and er they stole my bag and they stuck a gun in my face and freeze lady , you do n't do any thing , you just let them take what they want and its a horrible feeling when your there , we were there for three weeks and it just totally spoiled the holiday but the ramifications of it do n't just stop once you got on the plane home , it was very frightening |
24 | but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period |
25 | Well I can say personally that I went from a size twelve to a twenty and its a medical problem , its the , not an eating one though , you know any thing to with any diet or any thing like that , completely medical so er it takes a bit of coping with when you 've been slim and then all of a sudden you have this weight that , no diet will remove . |
26 | The show is organised by the American Auto Club and its the eleventh year its been held . |
27 | The TA bring up the rear , dressed in their lightweight trousers , boots and shirts ; many a member of staff and Regular recruit wishes that they were dressed the same , as the sun is high in the sky and their No 2 dress is somewhat warm . |
28 | A mile to the west of Loch Gorm the road to Gruinart cuts through a settlement at An Sithern of about a dozen round houses which were constructed in the late Bronze Age and which a cursory examination has shown that they were used at least three times . |
29 | But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner . |
30 | There was nothing he had to do to earn it , or nothing to threaten his security , except a too-rapid recovery , which he daily prayed against and which a good God would surely not allow — at least until summer came in and clothed a scarred earth with kindliness . |