Example sentences of "and the [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Kelham he seemed to enjoy the company of the lay brothers and the students more than that of the fathers , though I fancy he enjoyed the company of the more lively minded among them , such as Father Gabriel , a shrewd and lively thinker . |
| 2 | Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , and given the obvious confusion among Ministers about the implications of their electoral promises for the future level of value added tax , can the Leader of the House conjure up the actual figure for value added tax when his Government came to office in June 1979 , and the level now as they go out of office ? |
| 3 | Rapid turnover in junior staff does not disturb continuity if the working relationship is between the general practitioner and the consultant rather than the house officer . |
| 4 | yeah , you mean the children and the say rather than |
| 5 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 6 | Had he simply desired her he would have taken both her and the consequences then and there , booted that evil-looking brute of a dog aside , and made love to her , gloried in her , possessed her once and for all , on the hearth-rug . |
| 7 | ‘ And the dresses here and the abaya here . |
| 8 | The resupply effort was probably kept secret from Congress and the public precisely because it was just ; the general run of men could not be trusted with fine things . |
| 9 | In essence , you simply need to use an outline of what the screen should show , and the software more or less does the rest for you . |
| 10 | A small ducal domain — Edward I held only twenty castles in Aquitaine in the 1290s — ensured the survival of his regime and the Plantagenets consciously and purposefully alienated most of their Gascon assets , with the important exception of the wine customs collected at Bordeaux . |
| 11 | Both the food and the surroundings more than lived up to Luke 's predictions . |
| 12 | An indent for the first line of the paragraph , the position of the paragraph in relation to the page and the space above and below can be set . |
| 13 | In fact , the first Labour government which took office in January 1924 , after Baldwin had been defeated on an amendment to the Address , lasted until October , when the new government in turn was defeated on a Liberal amendment to a Conservative motion which MacDonald chose to regard as a matter of confidence ; and the Conservatives rather than the Liberals were to be the beneficiaries of MacDonald 's fall . |
| 14 | featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator |
| 15 | And the year before so you will have to pay tax . |
| 16 | It was early yet , she noted , and , feeling in no hurry to start a day that might well fall into the same luckless category as yesterday and the day before and the day before that , she sat up and leant against the headboard . |
| 17 | Erm what I wore yesterday and the day before and also practical things like that . |
| 18 | Equally clearly they were workers , not loafers , and they conducted the strike and the demonstrations peacefully and respectably . |
| 19 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
| 20 | They put a voltage between the tip and the sample so that an electric current will flow . |
| 21 | And the ladies all when they were dressed they would have a skirt made of this and a frilly blouse with a high neck and er a silver buckled belt round their waist . |
| 22 | But then he noticed her hair , she 'd dyed it black , it curved round and down , into her jawbones , and the skin above and below her eyes looked shiny and hard . |
| 23 | And it shows , in Beerbohm and Bowra and as it survives today , how inevitable it was that Pound should have abandoned England and the English just when he did . |
| 24 | Different but in perfect harmony was the grotto scene , dark and the darkness more and more revealed when a glow of the outer night entered . |
| 25 | Did you take the ruler and the rubbers upstairs as well ? |
| 26 | Throughout 1985–86 North continued shipments of arms to Iran in a series of complex deals involving sleazy arms dealers , shady middlemen , Swiss numbered bank accounts , suitcases stuffed with dollar bills , and all the trappings of dishonest behaviour one would associate with drug smugglers and the Mafia rather than a member of the White House staff . |
| 27 | it 's a special day to you , you know getting married on the top of Arthur 's Seat or whatever , but what about for the majority of people who who have a church wedding and the symbolism there that just goes unstated . |
| 28 | We were all burned out , exhausted by the battles and the fights within and outside our various movements . |
| 29 | The crowding pushed Izzie and the Mason further and further forward until the parson had his back pressed against the altar . |
| 30 | It is not a desirable place to paint pictures in , inside the Cuiraing : the silence and the grandeur awes you ; and the sheep above where we stood had an uncomfortable habit of loosening with their feet stones that came with an ominous crash near to us , and some shepherd lads , much less excusable , thought it good fun to threaten to , and likewise to perform , throwing stones near us . |