Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lot number twenty two twenty two , the gilt-bronze and enamel model showing at a hundred and fifty pounds one fifty I 'm offered , thank you , one hundred and fifty pounds I 've got , one sixty , one seventy , one eighty , ninety two hundred and twenty , forty , sixty two eighty , three hundred three hundred pounds against you at three hundred , anybody else ? |
| 2 | ( Bridget , aged sixteen ) I feel personally that the most difficult thing to cope with is not the physical and emotional changes I am going through but the attitudes of people around me . |
| 3 | The current problems of the NEA are not simply , or even mainly , the intellectual , aesthetic and administrative problems I have referred to earlier . |
| 4 | It was gratifying to me that he approved the political and economic articles I was writing for the New English Weekly . |
| 5 | While he was away was the longest fifteen months and eight days I ever spent . |
| 6 | The handful of extracts , words of kitchen advice , recipes , menus , and descriptive passages I have chosen to quote are none of them to be found in The Best of Boulestin , the American-selected anthology published in England by Heinemann in 1952 and still available at 21s . |
| 7 | Money was the issue , because he used to spend his money on hobbies and I 'd never know what I 'd be getting from week to week and some weeks I 'd not get anything . |
| 8 | and she ooh I do n't know I 'm gon na have to something to her cos some weeks I get it and some weeks I do n't , I said you ought to think yourself lucky you get an extra ten pound , I said , we do n't ! |
| 9 | That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while . |
| 10 | It is one of the most FUN and PURPOSEFUL things I have every been involved with — and when interviewed on the BBC RADIO in May about it , I said that I thought industry and commerce could take a leaf out of our book and learn something from the spirit of common purpose , good humour and teamsmanship — a statement provocative enough to get transmitted , as you might imagine . |
| 11 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ This was the best we have played away in the two and half years I have been in charge . |
| 12 | With all sorts of primeval fears about dark cupboards and traps and ghostly animals I put my hand on the handle , turned it , pulled and jumped back . |
| 13 | During the day he would cross the bridge to Chelsea to buy old clothes and other cast-offs , walking the streets with his cry of ‘ Old clothes and old hats I 'll buy them ’ , or begging his keep in more fashionable parts from ‘ cooks thinking he was such a nice old man … |
| 14 | Whilst recognising all her sporting and social successes I also have to recognise that she was not an academic high flyer . |
| 15 | One thing I did appreciate in almost all the French and German restaurants I ate in , was the happy absence of Muzak . |
| 16 | It was one of the most powerful , positive and visionary speeches I have heard her give in eleven years . |
| 17 | Thirty and forty horses I used to have to ball then . |
| 18 | and then if you 'd been off sick at all you had to make that time up as well so it was about four years and six months I did there altogether . |
| 19 | I heard a grunt , a hum of air , a bloodstunning crack , then with oddly exact and flowing movements I sat up saying " Money " , took my wallet from its holster , fanned five twenties at the sweating black face , wedged shut the door , made the triple-ring sign , and drove sedately out of Rosalind Court . |
| 20 | They 're in fact five hundred and one thousand , one hundred and thirteen and if Mr is erred by one thousand one hundred and thirteen pounds I would hope he 'd forgive him , the fact is that this year 's budget for those two buildings er , is that amount . |
| 21 | I regret that for geographical and personal reasons I am not eligible for re-election and shall be leaving the committee altogether . |
| 22 | Smith called him ‘ one of the most conscientious and hard-working officers I 've ever met ’ . |
| 23 | But it does look as though the whole business is irretrievably in their hands now — an impression strengthened by the deafening silence in response to the honest and serious disclosures I made . |
| 24 | After suffering another half hour of mouth farts and high-pitched giggles I was stiff with indignation : at the rabble , at the management , at my ‘ do n't make a fuss ’ partner . |
| 25 | I 'd say it 's one of the finest and hardest routes I have ever done . |
| 26 | Benjamin stared at my cloak full of the little trinkets and valuable possessions I had collected . |
| 27 | We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love . |
| 28 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 29 | But I mean , a lot of people do n't glorify on the jobs they do , I mean Dinda she said you know , it 's awful being the one who 's getting all the all day long , kind of explained and help them with their problems , sympathise with , with something that does n't work she 'd much rather be outdoors than being a or looking after , but she said you know , it 's , it 's a secure job and these days I think well I 'm not I run my own car and they do n't really think that |
| 30 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |