Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [pos pn] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sleep-safe Smoke Alarm protects you and your family simply and safely . |
| 2 | R said that he did not really know F beforehand but had seen him and his brothers once before when someone had told him who F was . |
| 3 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 4 | In a letter to the committee last month , Mr Gummer said he and his wife willingly and enthusiastically did everything to make the event a success . |
| 5 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |