Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun] [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 | In the late 1950s , BEA , BOAC , Swiss Air , KLM and Air France safety officials formed a group to exchange accident/incident details and the preventive action they had implemented . |
| 3 | But we still managed to battle back and get a draw , and the away goals we conceded did not become crucial . |
| 4 | ‘ The doctor will be here soon , and I 'm sure — ’ She turned as the door behind her opened , and the curly-haired doctor she 'd seen briefly in the dining-room came softly towards the bed . |
| 5 | They publish very helpful literature about divorce and the various challenges you will face in being a one parent family . |
| 6 | All of this is giving me a good opportunity to get up to speed quickly on AEA and the various issues we face . |
| 7 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The aim is simply to create discussion and debate about how kayaks work and the various ways we teach their use . |
| 12 | But that is simplifying it too much ; for it is like learning how to ride a bike : you can read about the technique , but only lots of practice will give you a feel for it and the essential balance you need . |
| 13 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 14 | Something in Dr Jaffery 's big bare feet and the awkward way he held himself gave the impression of a slightly shambolic , absent-minded individual : ‘ Asalam alekum , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The West should take time off from being Gorbacharmed to think about recent events in Russia 's outer empire and the awkward question they raise : how to undo Europe 's post-1945 division without undoing its post-1945 stability . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've got to get you warm somehow , and the best way I know is transferred body heat . |
| 19 | And he laughed himself as he ended , ‘ But he did n't add , ‘ and the best way you 'll learn it is to travel from one parish to another , and that 's what you 're going to do as soon as I can arrange it . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ Give me the ten Forteviot men , mounted , and the best horses you have in exchange for our worst . |
| 22 | John Lukic is a top professional and the best goalkeeper I 've ever played with . ’ |
| 23 | And the best advice she has ever had from a conductor ? |
| 24 | We in Lothian have had problems with barrier design , and the best solution I know of is the design enclosed . |
| 25 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 26 | If there are four to do , so you 'll all again at least twice and the best thing you have is you have more practice er so are you all clear on what you have to do , what you 're allotted to have to sell ? |
| 27 | Yellow flies were most popular with Tyne trout , and the best fish I took weighed 2lb , although a few much heavier trout escaped my evil intent . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Not only do children live in separate houses , they often move many miles from their parents in order to follow work or careers , and the mutual support they could formerly give each other has been accordingly diminished . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |