Example sentences of "and [pron] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 2 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 3 | Some I 've known well , some I 've seduced against their better nature and my better nature , two I 've even married . |
| 4 | I 've been able to enjoy hours of intensive cuddling , and my elder daughter Arcadia ( four — and almost as baby-mad as me ) has been in heaven too . |
| 5 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 6 | Summer 1992 was a good year for casual spawnings , and my smaller pond is home to countless Orfe and goldfish fry . |
| 7 | There 's four of us in the family — my brother Gary , my older sister Majella , myself and my younger sister Mary . |
| 8 | When I was six years old , my sister Pat eight , and my younger brother Alan three , war broke out . |
| 9 | I ca n't live off my mother and my younger brother : I 'm supposed to look after them and not the other way round . |
| 10 | On rather boring walks on Hampstead Heath with a pram containing our younger brother , with Laura and my older sister , all sent out for air and exercise , Basil and I would enliven matters with long conversations , vying with one another over imaginary purchases of imaginary horses the one outstripping the other over the purchase price . |
| 11 | Jeannie and my older sister Mary , they were perfect Gaelic speakers . |
| 12 | Despite the CKR 's reduced reliance on ocean shipping documents , its lesser chance of fraud and breach of security , especially when compared with paper based and telefaxed bills of lading , and its lower handling costs , North American banks , particularly United States banks , did not accept the CKR . |
| 13 | In 1875 North London Collegiate School and its lower school ( Camden School , opened in 1871 ) were successful in gaining endowments which secured their financial future , though the struggle for funding was trying and uphill work . |
| 14 | Thus the check specification need not always have both its upper and its lower limits different from the release specification . |
| 15 | Kingsway Motors ' damages were assessed as the difference between the value of the car when ownership should have passed to them ( i.e. when they bought it ) and its lower value when ownership actually passed to them ( i.e. when title was fed ) . |
| 16 | The street was one of those which led into the souk and its lower end was completely blocked by stalls . |
| 17 | This whole issue was considered by the Oakes Committee whose precise terms of reference were ‘ to consider measures to improve the system of management and control of higher education in the maintained sector of England and Wales and its better co-ordination with higher education in the universities ’ . |
| 18 | Being a regular to the attractions of the Continent and its sunnier climes , I started by skimming through and picking out a few of the relatively recent crags that I have visited , such as Ceuse & Oppede le Vieux : they are in — fine . |
| 19 | That is because communism and its paler imitations have been decisively rejected and because there is a trend to more liberal and democratic values . |
| 20 | So the world of science moved along its intellectual railway tracks , and its further progress seemed , like that of the railways themselves , to offer the prospect of the laying-down of more tracks of the same kind through new territory . |
| 21 | Reduced cholesterol metastability of hepatic bile and its further decline in gall bladder bile in patients with cholesterol gall stones |
| 22 | Even TLS , which momentously abandoned the anonymity of its book-reviews in 1974 under the editorship of John Gross , is cosmopolitan and more-than-literary in its range ; and its newer rival the London Review of Books , begun in 1979 with Karl Miller as editor , was a fortnightly avowedly conducted in imitation of the New York Review of Books : both of them , as it happens , Anglo-American and more in their choice of authors and topics . |
| 23 | Modern consciousness may include its objectified and transcendentalized elements , its materialist and superstitious beliefs , its scientized common sense and its older patterns of belief . |
| 24 | The birth of THE WOMEN 'S TROOP has made it and its older brother company , Black Mime Theatre , the only two professional Black Mime companies in existence to date . |
| 25 | The 3.6 metre ( 142in ) has a surface area of 2.5 sq m ( 27 sq ft ) and its larger variant with 5 metres span ( 16½ ft. ) has 5 sq m area or 54 sq ft ! |
| 26 | Concessionaires usually employ their own staff , but are able to take advantage of the facilities offered by the department store , together with its advertising , and its larger numbers of customers . |
| 27 | The wider scope of the EEC and its larger membership might well impose strains long before the end of the interim period . |
| 28 | Conservation groups pointed out that the Commission was studying the wrong forests ( its own and its younger plantations ) and had deliberately excluded the trees which , on the basis of continental experience , would be most at risk . |
| 29 | A MARKETING battle begins this week between industry goliath IBM and its smaller opponent Microsoft . |
| 30 | As he travelled on , this colour and its cruder associates became more apparent . |