Example sentences of "and [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from here , I reflected , looking through the windows at a small scattered town , that the despatcher had spoken to George and me the previous evening : and while I watched , George appeared outside and was met by a man who came from the station . |
| 2 | I had the Sta Prest and I the short hair , and every party you went to it would be all Tamla and Blue Beat and ska . |
| 3 | Wulfstan 's Sermon of the Wolf refers to English powerlessness against the enemy as shameful ; Ælfric to the heathen army holding them to scorn and of days when English kings had been strong and theirs the only fleet around . |
| 4 | And you the wee envelopes that came in with the black edging on them . |
| 5 | And and you the other half I mean what sort of |
| 6 | The will appoints Mr Molland her executor , and you the residuary legatee . |
| 7 | The sight of her had pierced him , making her the enterer , had she but known it , and him the entered . |
| 8 | To inculcate the population with the belief that their rulers have the right to demand obedience and they the corresponding duty to give it is the principal art of government . |
| 9 | Not that he wished any harm to Rose , and it was n't as if she would be on her own because , being the wife of Peter , and he the stable man , she was well set in their cottage . |
| 10 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 11 | The assembled guests well knew they were after bigger quarry than hare or stag and it the small town of Kirkmichael , Mar , on Tuesday 6 September , formally proclaimed James King of England , Scotland and , as tradition required , France , a poor return for all the help the Bourbons had given to the Jacobite cause . |
| 12 | Well the hose landed on him alright but it landed on his parcel and it the whole thing fell out on the road . |
| 13 | I had said nothing and he had assumed that we were engaged , telling his mother that night and mine the following morning . |