Example sentences of "and [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And everyone expected things would get nasty once Zhdanov 's famous article * appeared . |
| 2 | And them other doctors said I were n't to go back up London for no operation not till I was Al , else I 'd be dead as a herring . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Nineteen people in our street killed and them poor souls in Durning Road School . |
| 4 | Wooden pegs in your sole , they used to drill 'em and they used to put wooden , and them wooden pegs would n they 'd never come out , cos if you put nails in , the nails would rust . |
| 5 | Your boots , or your braids , and them white ones for try the other one . |
| 6 | There 's a crusader inside John Cleese and nothing Spanish Quixotic about him either . |
| 7 | Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here . |
| 8 | It 's light , breathable , compressible and very resilient , and nothing synthetic can equal its softness and lofting capabilities . |
| 9 | My secretary , Judy Fella , had used her not inconsiderable charm to persuade British Airways to give herself and me free seats on a Concorde as a publicity venture . |
| 10 | Though between you and me old Hereward 's a bit of a liability . ’ |
| 11 | ITSA Annual Conference — Edinburgh 30 June — 2July 1993 — 2 Members of the Labour Group and I other member |
| 12 | Oops , and I Big noise is n't it ? |
| 13 | I 've seventeen weeks and my total gain is seven pounds , which is on target . ’ |
| 14 | They were placed in an 8 gallon ( 36l ) tank with some plant cover and my normal tap water of pH 7.8 , GH 450ppm and a temperature of 76° F ( 24° C ) . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was the contrast between this creature and my normal self . |
| 16 | Neither John nor Ruth have authority over me , even though my Chinese cooking and my financial affairs will prosper if I follow their advice rather than trust my own judgment . |
| 17 | But just at that crucial point , fuel had run out , and my entire crew and I had perished in a piece of computer sand that will be forever Hackney . |
| 18 | That skimp cost me a learned pig of prodigious memory , two weeks in Benidorm with a beautician called Tracey , a life peerage and my entire collection of Marc Bolan records . ’ |
| 19 | My granny could speak it well and my great granny she could speak it and read it . |
| 20 | ‘ I have never lived in a place where the past was so alive , and my great predecessors seemed like daily companions . ’ |
| 21 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
| 22 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 23 | And my grandfather and my great grandfather , they were millers you see ? |
| 24 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
| 25 | And my grandfather and my great grandfather . |
| 26 | And my brother and my grandfather used to and my great grandfather they all took helped on the loch you see . |
| 27 | And my great grandfather he was a bookbinder . |
| 28 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |
| 29 | Roberto blinks and smiles , then picks up the novel and my small dictionary and balances them one in each hand . |
| 30 | I sit with my arms wrapped around the chrome railing and my bare heels gripping the sides . |