Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've caused me and my friends a lot of trouble and we are going to pay you back in full . |
| 2 | I was in Scotland for twelve years and was once congratulating myself and my friends a the University of Edinburgh on being , as I thought , so cosmopolitan . |
| 3 | The place is beautiful and its studies a precious part of human heritage . |
| 4 | Not only the last , but also those other alterations in attitude to domestic environment mentioned earlier , which seem to occur between 1817 and 1837 , combine to give a building and its contents a quite different claim upon the imagination from their significance in Jane Austen 's time . |
| 5 | The ideas carried in the individual features , including an end to mass unemployment , a planned economy , a comprehensive system of social security and health care , a clean sweep of all that was old-fashioned and squalid in housing and the urban legacy of the industrial revolution , and many more , represented a virtual glossary of progressive views current in the Britain of the 1930s and its contributors a fair cross-section of the high-minded and socially concerned individuals who had been advocating these and similar ideas well before the outbreak of war . |
| 6 | But I 've always found the Flying V and its derivatives a devil of a job to sit down with and play . |
| 7 | With the experience of revolution in France and her colonies a few of the more enthusiastically radical abolitionists — notably Clarkson and Thomas Cooper — adopted the higher risk tactic of accepting both the virtual inevitability of slave revolt and its justification . |
| 8 | He gave Kate and her companions a brooding , sarcastic look before turning away from them to talk at length with Mike and the mechanics . |
| 9 | On the contrary , the birth of sons to the queen in 1471 and 1473 had given her and her kinsmen a more secure political status . |
| 10 | On the contrary , the birth of sons to the queen in 1471 and 1473 had given her and her kinsmen a more secure political status . |
| 11 | Rex has told me all about the Tyrrell Society and their activities a dozen times if he 's told me once . |
| 12 | In that case may I apr clude by wishing the parties and their advisors a very good Christmas . |
| 13 | To Lavoisier and his associates a new international language could be constructed for chemistry . |
| 14 | Looking back from 1808 Clarkson had no doubt of the enormity of the task which had faced him and his collaborators a little over twenty years earlier . |
| 15 | She has published articles on the collections in all the major map journals and last year published , with the Scottish Library Association , The Scot and his Maps a concise , authoritative and readable history of her subject . |
| 16 | We bought him and his friends a drink which gave him a chance to quiz us on our movements for the next day . |
| 17 | His own scar , he said … in a particularly violent duel … the last in a succession of three … the first two of which he had been fortunate enough to win … and would the young lady of the house be kind enough to bring him and his friends a bottle of her father 's excellent port ? … |
| 18 | Instead , he gave Carter and his advisers a long talk on how he saw the international situation . |
| 19 | Towards the end of the 11th century Gundulph , Bishop of Rochester , looking for a site to build for himself and his successors a manor house , chose a spot close by the river at Halling . |
| 20 | To support himself and his followers a daimyo took as tax a specified proportion of the harvest in all areas under his control . |
| 21 | His skin was brown and his eyes a light clear hazel . |
| 22 | Give your floor a new angle and your feet a treat with Habitat 's new deep pile Pyramid rug . |
| 23 | On behalf of myself and your Committee I would like to thank you and your families a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year . |
| 24 | I wish every one of you and your families a truly Happy Christmas and a very prosperous New Year . |
| 25 | I thank you once again for all that you have done in 1992 and wish you and your families a happy and restful Christmas . |
| 26 | I wish you and your families a peaceful and prosperous New Year . |
| 27 | ‘ I want to make love to you till your body is drugged with sensations , every nerve-ending alive , limbs warm and aching , mouth swollen from my kisses and your eyes a deep , dark purple . |
| 28 | Your spirits may be a little duller and your wits a little brighter to-morrow , ’ said Isambard tolerantly , and left him to his uneasy solitude . |
| 29 | You are doing yourselves and your songs a disservice . |