Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't believe it and , at the pictures , persisted in dragging them surreptitiously on and off whenever he took his eyes off the screen and looked at me . |
| 2 | I could n't believe it and , at the pictures , persisted in dragging them surreptitiously on and off whenever he took his eyes off the screen and looked at me . |
| 3 | The article leads you to wonder about her religious faith , if she has one , and about where it stands in relation to the outlook of the editor of Commentary , author of a book about his ambitions for worldly success : Making it must be the least pious book that has ever been written . |
| 4 | And the whole book is really about er the Versailles conference in a way , is n't it , and about why he behaved the way he did at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's taught me , and is still teaching me , so many things about football and about when you can do things and when you ca n't . |
| 6 | He blames himself for being naive about how such centres come into being , and about how they can be run . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) spoke eloquently about them in general and about how they would apply in his particular case . |
| 8 | I went to Scotland Yard this morning and saw an Inspector and told him all about our suspicions , and about how we knew Nigel had been down at Streatley that Saturday — ’ |
| 9 | Since any argument that is not purely academic is about how the future is to happen then there is much room for subjectivity , both about how we think the future will happen and about how we should like it to happen . |
| 10 | Think about her character and about how she solved the problem . |
| 11 | The Lord 's Prayer is quoted in the repeated fragment ‘ For Thine is the Kingdom ’ but the earlier uses of the word kingdom , particularly when it has a capital ‘ K ’ , must already have prompted questions about allusion to this fundamental Christian rite , and about how it relates to those ‘ prayers to broken stone ’ . |
| 12 | In other words , black kids teach each other about the world and about how it works contrary to their interests . |
| 13 | And about how I was going to kill my father . |
| 14 | Talk to others about your problems and about how you feel . |
| 15 | But it is important for people to understand that this is a job they are doing , and for both they and the professionals involved to realise its significance . |
| 16 | The style of the earliest red-figure does not differ from that of black-figure , and for long they flourished side by side ; but the new technique was to prove better suited than the old to new ideas of drawing and composition that developed as part of the general late sixth-century movement which undermined the conventions of archaic art . |
| 17 | I know He 's allowed generations to totally fuck up , and for now we 're carrying really heavy loads . |
| 18 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 19 | But talking changes nothing , and for now it is only talk . |
| 20 | ‘ We now call our account managers entrepreneurs because they are responsible for their own budgets and for how they spend and allocate their funds . ’ |
| 21 | We had decided this part would be tough , and for once we were right . |
| 22 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 23 | ‘ Pure Trance And Techno ’ is the catch-line here and for once it 's roughly right . |
| 24 | And for once it 's Q , not Bond , who gets the girl . |
| 25 | ‘ If rhythm 's a drug I 'm hooked on you/Show me every move/We 've got perfect motion ’ — just like Madonna or Betty Boo at their best , this is pure and damn-near perfect pop , and for once it 's even better in the flesh . |
| 26 | Speaking from the society 's headquarters in Edinburgh , superintendent Ron Grant — a former shepherd — summed the situation up : ‘ It 's been one of the worst winters in the west Highlands for many years and for once it 's not been snow but rather rain which has caused the problems . |
| 27 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 28 | The dream drifted away , and for once she had pen and paper , made a cigarette and wrote until the alarm went off . |
| 29 | I glanced up at Granny 's picture and for once she seemed to be smiling . |
| 30 | Now it had come and for once she was tongue-tied . |