Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | where the walls jostle you and brush your arm |
| 2 | If the neighbours saw you and me together , Kellard , they might talk . |
| 3 | As he moved his way down on to the beach , he clumsily knocked the stones and the girls saw him and rushed to the rocks where they picked up not clothes , but sealskins which they wrapped around their bodies and then dived back into the sea . |
| 4 | They commissioned William White to build the church in 1871 , built a school and new cottages , pulled down the old manor and the cottages surrounding it and erected a large Victorian house . |
| 5 | They check them out first and the thieves know it and generally leave branded animals alone . |
| 6 | The slaves grew it and the children spun it and people like Miss Harker were wearing beautiful dresses . |
| 7 | Amundsen waited , and the men watched him and thought . |
| 8 | Chimpanzees for instance have enormous canine teeth , but the males have them and not the females , so the idea here is that normally a big canine tooth , a sexually dimorphic canine tooth is probably related to inter-male conflict , rather than to killing and , and whether , how that affects your er what you say about the spacing I 'm not sure , but certainly it would be a safe erm generalization to say normally big canines are an aspect of sexual dimorphism and in mammals are very common . |
| 9 | Mason meanwhile attacked one Messerschmitt which at once went straight down , but the others attacked him and one got three hits on his aircraft , which shattered the windscreen and wounded him in the hand as he broke away . |
| 10 | It had been sent to an isolated kibbutz with food but the Arabs stopped it and killed forty-seven Jews . |
| 11 | ‘ We have never worked out what the chemistry is , but the audiences liked it and we realised ‘ Hey , we 've got something here ’ and really set to work on it . |
| 12 | ‘ I took a lot of stick from the press , ’ said the England Under-21 player , ‘ but the lads backed me and so did the manager . |
| 13 | She tolerated my mother because the children loved her and that left her free , d' you see ? ’ |
| 14 | Raw news coverage can be watched live , before the networks receive it and transmit edited and censored excerpts . |
| 15 | The last thing he wanted to do was panic Larsen , but he had to warn him before the dogs spotted him and gave tongue . |
| 16 | To dance , it seems , is not by choice : you dance when the drums call you and you stop when whatever moves you to dance ceases . |
| 17 | Athens will therefore serve as our model of democracy as the Greeks evolved it and understood it . |
| 18 | Then she was dragged off her feet as the lines pulled her and the loops tightened round her wrists . |
| 19 | The programming of ‘ Films for the Discriminating ’ , as the advertisements put it and ‘ Music for your Pleasure ’ , played in the intervals met an enthusiastic response from the public . |
| 20 | ‘ Leah is a happy child , even though the attacks hurt her and she ca n't move her right side . |