Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I finished me readin' book today and I starts the last one on Mondee . |
| 2 | Rape clearly contravenes international law and she cites the 1907 Hague Conventions , the '49 Geneva Conventions and the '77 Protocols to make her point . |
| 3 | For the devotees She is indulgence incarnate and She represents the divine grace that delivers creatures from worldly distress and bondage . |
| 4 | ‘ And she thinks the leaking vessels are in the same places as before , which I suppose is good news . |
| 5 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |
| 6 | Well she a lot cheaper and she fills the bloody basket up . |
| 7 | The female is a paler version , and she lacks the dorsal spike and coloured patch in the pectoral fin . |
| 8 | Anna Adams is good on maps , on the quality of silence , and she captures the bleak , lonely poetry of the weather report . |
| 9 | Anna Adams is good on maps , on the quality of silence , and she captures the bleak , lonely poetry of the weather report . |
| 10 | with the red hat , and she dyes the red hat |
| 11 | After all , her sire is a recent Best Of Breed winner at Crufts and she has the old fashioned ‘ I 'll do anything to please you ’ attitude of the best Retrievers . |
| 12 | And she believes the best is yet to come . |
| 13 | She sees the similarity of these , although each person feels unique , and she sees the likely outcomes , even though she can not always reveal them . |
| 14 | Yes , she misses her mum and dad , and she misses the golden stretches of beach more than she has ever let on . |
| 15 | Thing is , he was christened that way , and he hates the whole moviestar bit . |
| 16 | Revenge would be sweet for him tonight , and he feels the current Rangers side can make the final . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , and he feels the same way . |
| 18 | He noted that the Lakenvelder has a black tongue , whereas black-and-whites have pink tongues ( the same is true of other belted European cattle and also some colour-pointed animals and , oddly , Jerseys ) , and he quotes the eminent Dutch geneticist , Dr A.L. |
| 19 | And he suspects the stolen car has now long disappeared across the border . |
| 20 | As they sway and raise their arms , he sees thirty pairs of large breasts and he imagines the same quantity of round thighs rolling and separating under the cassocks which he has had sent from Raleigh . |
| 21 | Nature is grinding down man , or will grind down man , has no regard to him , is cruel , all this kind of language is used of nature , and he depicts the only posture of the rational man as a kind of , if such a thing is possible , a rather emotional Stoicism . |
| 22 | And he plays the menacing scenes that follow over-lightly , winking at his wife , giving his half smile and making quips . |
| 23 | John Carwelti argues that certain types of formula-stories , ‘ Adventure , Mystery and Romance ’ , must be judged by their own standards and conventions and he deplores the literary assumption that this type of writing is ‘ subliterature ’ . |
| 24 | Faldo spent almost 30 hours between Thursday and Sunday either playing , hitting shots on the range or working on his putting and he hopes the back-breaking labours pay off next weekend . |
| 25 | That 's what the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom said , but the reality is even worse : Postal Minister Wolfgang Boetsch said on the radio that he would not accept the plans to raise the cost of local calls from 1995 — and he gets the final say . |
| 26 | ‘ Mickey has played at the highest level and he gets the same thing out of the game as he has always done . |
| 27 | Luke is most anxious to make this clear and he uses the Greek word parthenos twice in the opening sentence . |
| 28 | His uncle was fend of French fries and he tells the empty corridor for the hundredth time that they are called chips over there and they are eaten with vinegar . |
| 29 | Krimsky was well placed to observe key individuals and groups in action and he tells the local story vividly . |
| 30 | It 's an introduction cos this is given to a member of staff and he says the first the question is can develop and train all staff . |