Example sentences of "and [prep] [pers pn] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that moment on , every day was a Saturday and between us we could sometimes manage to put the profits up by as much as fourteen shillings a week . |
| 2 | It 's better than nothing and between us we can make it work . ’ |
| 3 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 4 | Nobody else in this dive has any money , and for them it will he a long cold evening . |
| 5 | It was his conception , his baby , and for it he would tolerate most things , including his suspicion of Trotskyism — whether of the IMG or IS variety — and of what he may have seen as Rowbotham 's ‘ hippy sentimentality ’ . |
| 6 | At first sight it is unremarkable ; a simple Formica-clad cube , but as one draws closer it can be seen that the top face is transparent and through it one can view the tracks in the cloud chamber — the long thin lines due to cosmic rays and the short stubby ones due to alpha particles . |
| 7 | It is through this mastery that one achieves ideal manhood and womanhood in Piaroaland , and through it one can then creatively participate in the building of community . |
| 8 | It still burned with a harsh , blinding glare and through it she could see vague shapes , presumably the others . |
| 9 | They 'd reached a dramatic opening , and through it she could see the moon-silvered sea hundreds of feet below , moving in a slow , deep swell towards the foot of the cliffs . |
| 10 | He put his telescope to his eye , and through it he could see the shapes of ten dogs pulling a sledge over the ice . |
| 11 | It was white now , and behind it you could see the shape . |
| 12 | Oswy was probably unable to follow in detail the abstruse arguments put forward , but in the end he decided to accept the Roman practice , on the grounds that at the gates of heaven the keys are held by St Peter , and against him he would not contend . |
| 13 | The full Oxford English Dictionary is available on compact disc ; and with it you can do far more extensive searches for information than the printed book allows . |
| 14 | It felt rather like swimming under water in a glass tank : on all sides and above him he could see the world , the outer air , but he was not part of it . |
| 15 | The unpainted doors were padlocked and above them he could vaguely make out the name Strauss , the paintwork having been abraded over the years by the weather . |
| 16 | the truth should be er help for me now , give me , give me a support or something and from her I could go about two weeks not hearing at all , no phone call , nothing . |
| 17 | Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii . |
| 18 | So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started . |
| 19 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 20 | It 's a sort of primitive law of survival — find someone worse off than yourself and beside them you will blossom . |
| 21 | ‘ He was giving me work when no one else would and without him I would not have survived . |
| 22 | And without them we could n't function properly . |
| 23 | You have done excellent work , and without you I would not have all the important details I needed . ’ |
| 24 | Their defence is necessary to our defence and without us they can not defend themselves . |
| 25 | The approaching flames were nearer now , and beyond them he could see the villagers trying to peer through the smoke to make out what was happening . |
| 26 | He was speaking to someone and beyond them I could see a brightly lit room with vast chandeliers and women in white dresses . |
| 27 | Further down the corridor was a kitchen and across it I could see young Dennison loitering with intent outside the window . |