Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They come across as the same songs although they do n't sound as huge and magnificent and lush as they do on the record . |
| 2 | It would droop lower and lower until it rested on her knees , then she would clasp her knees with both hands and rock herself , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , moaning , her face hidden in her skid . |
| 3 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 4 | as saying , you know , this is a story about this and that and you look at that |
| 5 | My wife 's father er he said to me , cos he was , he worked hard you know , he had a tough life you know up in London and all that as , as a kid and that and he said to me what you want to do , enjoy everyday that you live , I said yeah , oh I said oh but you ca n't can you ? , he said yes you can . |
| 6 | Er Lot number three Lot number three the Canton trays there we are there we 've got a sample showing for you Lot number three , there are seven of them in the Lot all seven of them for a hundred and fifty pounds at one hundred and fifty , sixty , seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty , forty , sixty two eighty I 'm offered two hundred and eighty pounds you 're on three hundred for you sir three hun three twenty three fifty , three eighty go to four hundred four twenty four fifty four eighty five hundred and fifty and you bet against you both now five hundred and fifty is offered against you both now , five fifty five hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 7 | All of us get elated and emotional as we stroll through a pine grove on a hot summer day when the old trees fill the air with their pungent fragrance . |
| 8 | ‘ And you 're dirty and sloppy and you look as if you 've been dragged backwards through a hedge , the lot of you ! |
| 9 | The clash is absolute and stable when they cross at 90° . |
| 10 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 11 | This process can be painful and revealing but it leads to greater self-awareness — the first step to unambiguous communication . |
| 12 | In fact the other day I just could n't face yet another day of taunts , kicks and bag-snatching so I skived off school . |
| 13 | She felt frightened and strange as she thought of greeting her first-born , who would not know her and might recoil with horror and cry for Ellen . |
| 14 | " I thought you frivolous , malicious and heartless when I lived with you . |
| 15 | The original outline for settlement looks both feudal and foolish — foolish because the men of importance were to be ranged in a tidy hierarchy with outlandish titles like cacique and landgrave , and feudal because it rested on the assumption that the proprietors would get a permanent rental income from politically loyal and economically co-operative tenants . |
| 16 | He lived in the town of Cambridge for more years of his life than in any other town , and this though he managed during his life to live in nine different towns and in one village . |
| 17 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 18 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 19 | Marie could hear Ben 's barking growing fainter and fainter as he raced after Simon along the beach . |
| 20 | Here hundreds of birds were wheeling and soaring and we realised with excitement that they were frigate birds . |
| 21 | Tim was taller and broader and he leaned towards the old man like a creature caught in the instant of springing on its quarry . |
| 22 | I wish I could forget two London concerts he gave shortly before he died , but I prefer to remember him through performances as brilliant , powerful and exciting as we have on this set . ( ) |
| 23 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 24 | A tangerine that Modigliani gave me — we were in front of a fruit-shop — and another that he gave to his wife : that is my last memory of them . ’ |
| 25 | Fletcher said : ‘ It looks like two different pitches — one when they bowl and another when we bowl on it . ’ |
| 26 | We conducted a two year study to assess the effectiveness of the family smoking education and smoking and me projects in influencing smoking behaviour . |
| 27 | Cabinet members were tight-lipped and unsmiling as they emerged from Downing Street , but MPs were convinced that it had been a stormy session , with ministers bitterly fighting their corners in what has been described as the most stringent public spending round for years . |
| 28 | The Queen looked drawn and unsmiling as she arrived at the games with Prince Philip , Prince Edward and the Queen Mother . |
| 29 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
| 30 | She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment . |