Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [be] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Wakeham : I agree that the way in which the House has dealt with European matters in recent months has left something to be desired , and I am taking steps to try to improve it . |
| 2 | Copies of the digest have been sent to all district councils , district sports councils and sports development groups and I am sending copies to governing bodies for information in the hope that the governing body itself or your district associations might become involved in the local planning process . |
| 3 | I shall be meeting the representatives of the Standing Conference of Principal Youth and Community Officers for the London and south-east Region on 17 December , and I am meeting representatives of the British Youth Council and the Scout Association in the near future . |
| 4 | ‘ Van Gelder and I are trained divers , sir . |
| 5 | ‘ Andrew , my dear boy , your father and I are talking matters of great pith and moment , ’ replied Clem . |
| 6 | I 've lost Andrew , she thought , and I 'm peeling potatoes . |
| 7 | It may be my brain is getting fuddled despite my attempts at rejuvenation and I 'm imagining things . ’ |
| 8 | And they say there 's nothing wrong with this house and I 'm imagining things . ’ |
| 9 | My form 's good this year and I 'm scoring goals . |
| 10 | I go to work in them , and I 'm pulling cables . |
| 11 | Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales . |
| 12 | In the nightmare my father , the under-gardener , my brother and I were throwing sticks to bring down walnuts from the great tree halfway between our home and the Court . |
| 13 | Whereas when you and I were buying houses it was oh it 's a long process and it ca n't be hurried . |
| 14 | Under the bishop 's plan he and I were to change places , and while I was on furlough he was to keep both jobs going , and I would do the same on my return . |
| 15 | One night when Terry , Frank , Brian and I were playing cards as Tom nodded off to sleep , Frank exclaimed , ‘ Incandescent , shit ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We had time booked , songs were arranged in the studio and I was writing lyrics on the day they sang them . |
| 17 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 18 | Again it was word of mouth : teachers told other teachers about us and I was getting offers to give talks left , right and centre . |
| 19 | It was my first night back and I was getting pains and everything . |
| 20 | ‘ Things were going wrong for me earlier this year and I was losing games . |
| 21 | Another temporary need fitted in to this plan , for Robert Slater , the Anglican chaplain at the university , was also to go on leave , and I was to keep services going in the little wooden Anglican church on the university side of the lake , as well as the other two quite heavy responsibilities . |
| 22 | It was the first teaching situation I 'd been in , and I 'd got lots of energy and I was devising ways of getting classroom control and class management and all that kind of thing … |
| 23 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 24 | So if your dishwasher is unreliable and you are getting complaints from customers , then that might be the area to begin with . |
| 25 | And you are taking notes . |
| 26 | If you are a private tenant and you are having problems getting the landlord to carry out repairs , seek advice from : a Citizens Advice Bureau , housing advice centre , or the environmental health department of your borough or district council . |
| 27 | So i it 's another , well it may , the effect may be the same but it 's another way of drawing distinctions between landlords and rich peasants and you are treating landlords differently from rich peasants . |
| 28 | You know , I mean even at these diet clubs , oh well , you know do n't stop going out just eat what you , but if you go out and you 're eating sweets for you know , after your dinner |
| 29 | So he was really good , and now he 's , he 's gone bad now , and you 're using things like this to say to him . |
| 30 | It seems like you got there 's a logic , there are arguments behind what you 're doing , and you 're equalising things certainly , but I suppose what comes to mind is this phrase to rob Peter to pay Paul , and it must be very difficult to explain to the people in the old folks home when it 's being closed , I 'm sorry , you 're doing this so that somebody else in a different part of the country will have a better quality of life . |