Example sentences of "and [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pride ourselves in being able to offer anyone and everyone the OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE in their chosen sport or leisure pursuit . |
| 2 | The wife , we learn , is the one who is about to be tried for the crime , and nothing the narrator has been able to say has convinced the police he himself is the guilty man . |
| 3 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 4 | C'm on , secretly just between you and me the voice persisted in her head , it would be hard not to . |
| 5 | could you possibly give Ian , Zain and me the authority to work that one out . |
| 6 | As regards others who are terminally ill and whom the law regards as incompetent — for example , the unconscious , the mentally ill , the mentally handicapped , or the seriously confused — it is not clear that anyone has authority in law to consent to or refuse treatment on their behalf . |
| 7 | ( b ) To recapture a person who is unlawfully at large and whom the officer is hotly pursuing ( s.17(1) ( d ) ) . |
| 8 | The sober intentions of his book were very different from the novels , plays and films which have created a mythical figure in modern culture of the artist as isolated and neglected , recognised only after his death , and whom the phrase ‘ genius and madness are near aligned ’ seems to fit . |
| 9 | Yet it is precisely the woman or girl who is ignorant and gullible enough to believe tales of this kind who is ripe for sexual exploitation and whom the section should be most geared towards protecting . |
| 10 | From this pale and anaemic-looking girl who had once thought only of turning the heads of young officers , and whom the Collector had considered insipid , he now saw a young woman of inflexible willpower emerging . |
| 11 | That was how I saw it : Henry and Louisa Agnew , long dead but mysteriously alive under this mountain of paper , were one team ; Edward and I the other . |
| 12 | Barbara Jefford , a fellow student , played the tart and I the guard sent to capture her . |
| 13 | Let the worst happen that can , you 'll have the merit and I the blame . |
| 14 | I went running and I went running and I the relief of sitting down on that toilet and going you know you know when your completely busting and then it 's the relief |
| 15 | Erm and you know and I the thing that erm used to worry me maybe sometimes , was the acceptance of this as what they should be having . |
| 16 | Yes er we 're going to the drugs squad Dave and I the launch of a new hotline which is where people can report dealers , a little bit sceptical about its success but we 've spent quite a lot on posters and business cards . |
| 17 | and I the flipchart |
| 18 | We demand that our work should be recognised for what it is — we produce and reproduce in other people and ourselves the ability to work and go on working , we produce labour power . |
| 19 | In ancient Greek myth Harlequin made his first appearance as Hermes ( or Mercury ) , the messenger of the gods and himself the god of all animals and travellers . |
| 20 | I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus . |
| 21 | And its the sorting which makes all money . |
| 22 | Custodial Investments are essentially bearer instruments and readily disposable investments held for a client and which are neither the subject of a discretionary management agreement nor held in connection with any personal appointment and which the firm can sell without the client needing to authorise such sale . |
| 23 | It is built up as it ‘ gathers up from the influences of the environment the demands which that environment makes upon the ego and which the ego can not always rise to … . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on . |
| 25 | Fixed-charge debentures specify certain specific assets that are chargeable as security and which the company is not permitted to dispose of ; in the event of default these assets are sold and the proceeds used to repay the debenture-holders . |
| 26 | Products which fall in the top left-hand group are those which are in attractive markets and which the company handles well . |
| 27 | Irrespective of personal efforts to maintain safety , all people are exposed to dangers — natural forces as well as man-made hazards — which are inherent in the environment and which the individual is impotent to control or eliminate . |
| 28 | It was enormous fun to be juggling with the high explosive which had already exploded in the faces of EMI and A&M , and which the rest of the record industry had decided was too volatile to touch . |
| 29 | Decide which one of you will be the sales assistant and which the customer . |
| 30 | They may feel that there are certain rights which citizens have and which the legislature or the executive must not invade or remove . |