Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary was posted to a notorious station in the Fens , called Sledgwick , which was universally known as HMS Sledgwick because it was practically under water and everyone wore gumboots and walked about on duckboards . |
| 2 | Last year Andres Gomez beat him the final ; this time it was Courier and everyone remembers things about him . |
| 3 | ‘ And turtles — Jim and somebody else , as wild about turtles as you were , and them laying eggs or something . |
| 4 | Something about the eyes and them winged eyebrows she 's got . |
| 5 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 6 | And I 'd aunties over here |
| 7 | ‘ The exhibition was rather successful and I sold prints of the caricatures . ’ |
| 8 | Could I just say sir , this is the re report which is , is made er each year to this committee , to inform the committee of of the work , and I hope members are pleased with the er wide range and volume work which has been carried out , and note in particular the involvement of this service with the public , and the er pleasure of the public and those have made donations , the fact that over eight thousand people have visited , and the number of people who 've erm received lectures and have benefitted from that . |
| 9 | Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well . |
| 10 | There will be a single budget which we 've always argued for in the management committee the head of centre will and this is very important and I hope members are clear the head of centre which is the head of the Moat Centre which is the proposed under the amendment will be appointed within this financial year , will be appointed out of the existing budget . |
| 11 | Mr Deputy Speaker it shows it can be done and I hope others will look after the interests of their tax payers as well . |
| 12 | I am , however , delighted that both David Stanbury and Melanie Walker will be there , and I hope discussions go well . |
| 13 | All we saw were the bodies in the morgue and I remember parties carrying them away . |
| 14 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I like things to be totally organised and I like things to happen quickly . |
| 16 | ‘ And I like cities , pretty much any city I go through . |
| 17 | And I like swords . |
| 18 | They want to have total creative control of their own development , and I like bands that have really strong views of what they want to do . ’ |
| 19 | Rooks cawed in the dark trees which ringed the house and I imagined demons nestling in the branches , mocking us . |
| 20 | For a start , right , erm all her clothes then right and I mean loads of them are ones they 're really horrible like but she just hangs them here , I thought well you ca n't wear them , you know , all horrible , you do n't wear them fold them , put them away |
| 21 | and I mean things like disrepair , erm inadequate heating , erm noise from other tenants , erm |
| 22 | Soon after this the same Shanny became a dark greeny brown in colour and I noticed rows of eggs on the underside of a rock in his cave . |
| 23 | Darnley slept , and I wrote letters to my friends . |
| 24 | I had a notepad and I wrote poems on it when he was talking , so they thought I was taking letters . |
| 25 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 26 | And I heard Monks say this : ‘ So the only proof of the boy 's identity is at the bottom of the river , and the old woman who received it is dead . ’ |
| 27 | You use batteries and I use batteries . |
| 28 | Anyhow I said well I should n't say this I know and I know times have altered , but I said it was n't er I said I 'm not saying it because Martine and Nicola were in it , but I said to me it was n't the same as when they were in it . |
| 29 | Well I mean we 're doing matrices and I know matrices sort of , comes into I ca n't remember wh which part of it , because it 's I know it 's later on it 's about . |
| 30 | " When I 'm in bed and asleep , I dream , and I know dreams are rubbish , so I need n't pay any attention to them . |