Example sentences of "and [adj] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she grows up bright and interesting we can renew our acquaintance , a discrezione . |
| 2 | And another I 'll tell you |
| 3 | When the praise is lavish , the receiver may interpret the speaker 's sub-text to be : ‘ You have low self-esteem and magnanimous me will build it up . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do you know , Anna , my darling , that the poor child longed , only longed , to be a concert pianist but was literally forced by her ogreish father to nurse him while he died of drink and now her spirit is quite broken and all she can bring herself to do is dispense plastic cups of repellent coffee to OAPs going to Ferndown to see their married daughters ? ’ |
| 5 | One day , perhaps , consciousness will have shifted and generic she will lose its shock value . |
| 6 | If a man was workshy and mutinous I would put him in a cell to cool his heels for a while . |
| 7 | That 's their regular if they were having a country and western they would ask him to do it because he 's |
| 8 | ‘ He asked me what I could say of you , Callanish , and I waited for your signal knowing that when he was wiser and ready I could tell him . ’ |