Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack was standing beside her at the time filling in notes , and she quickly jotted down the address and the scant details they were offered , and turned to him . |
| 2 | But we still managed to battle back and get a draw , and the away goals we conceded did not become crucial . |
| 3 | They publish very helpful literature about divorce and the various challenges you will face in being a one parent family . |
| 4 | All of this is giving me a good opportunity to get up to speed quickly on AEA and the various issues we face . |
| 5 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 6 | He said this was the worst moment of his life , and the various carpetings he received ultimately had their effect ; years later the memory of them would have a deep effect on his attitude to captaincy . |
| 7 | Again , the motive you assign to your murderer must be credible , and the various suggestions I have already made about motive could well help if you decide to plan a story on the inverted system . |
| 8 | Its mellow character is compounded of its age , its comfortable lack of pretension and the various roles it has to play as farm , design studio and home . ’ |
| 9 | The aim is simply to create discussion and debate about how kayaks work and the various ways we teach their use . |
| 10 | In such circumstances we may not describe a band as being due to a single local mode , and the empirical methods we have used so far break down . |
| 11 | Instead the music concentrates on three characters and the thematic contrasts they suggest : the lawyer Swallow , Grimes himself , and the chorus as a kind of Mussorgskian entity , representing the Borough and popular feeling on both sides of the " Grimes question " . |
| 12 | They continued to be seen for what they continued to be : organisations concerned to get the highest wages and the best conditions they could for their members . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ Give me the ten Forteviot men , mounted , and the best horses you have in exchange for our worst . |
| 14 | By the summer of 1978 I 've lost another stone , without meaning to , and the rust-coloured cords I ordered from the catalogue only a month ago are already hanging off me . |
| 15 | ‘ I was a Classic in my youth , madam , and although I have always been deeply interested in the works of the Roman poets and the Roman historians I have never been able to summon up much enthusiasm for Roman architecture . |
| 16 | So if we we just want to make that erm clear erm number three er we would n't like to add a fourth erm motion and the Labour resolutions it is erm it 's actually end of it should be , consideration should be given . |
| 17 | In this section and the following ones I am concerned with the ‘ shape ’ of the Belfast speech community as a whole , and in particular with a kind of patterning that is not directly accessible by the classic methods of Labov ( 1966 ) . |
| 18 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
| 19 | The Army brought an investigation into McCarthy and the blackmailing pressures he had put on it . |
| 20 | I was stuck there like a flying buttress between the floor and the pillar , and Jamie was still gibbering away to the girl about the sound a Triumph makes and the high-speed runs she 'd done up the side of Loch Lomond at night . |
| 21 | " The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War must be understood in the context of traditional society and the economic stresses it suffered in the 1920 's and 1930's . |
| 22 | The role of women is determined by this earlier social structure and the economic influences it faces . |
| 23 | The human costs both of the wars themselves and the economic crises they have caused have been enormous , and the setbacks to programmes of educational and social development severe . |
| 24 | In supplies , for example you often have to undertake almost military type operations I witnessed a group of 150 women who planned and carried out an ambush of the enemy to requisition bread and flour and the only arms they were carrying consisted of sticks and cords , To be a nurse also requires a lot of mental equanimity and physical strength . |
| 25 | The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face . |
| 26 | It may be difficult for you to do any more than this if your time with the video machine is very limited , and the only materials you have are non-ELT programmes . |
| 27 | And the only clothes I 've ever had are my cloaks . |
| 28 | They were my mother 's and the only things I have of hers . " |
| 29 | people I know and the only ones I really know are those that come in the shop . |
| 30 | I also find that he 's been quoting some twelve hour figures and the only ones I have , you may have them er Mr chairman , are from the H and T C report in July of last year where they forecasted four thousand nine hundred on the A six five eight and achieve eight thousa for nineteen ninety six and achieved eight thousand one hundred now . |