Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [noun] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depression : " My efforts are useless and there is nothing I can do " v. Acceptance : " Perhaps this is just the way it is and my life must go on " . |
| 2 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 3 | I would write parodies of popular songs and my selection would go all around the circuit . |
| 4 | There is erm a chap down our road had a had a huge dog and when he when he took it for a walk , you know he used to he used to stagger along with him and my wife used to say there he goes again , the do what was it she used to say , the dog 's taking the man for a walk again and it i do you think it 's that sort of idea you know that in some households th the dog takes over from the er sort of central figure , even the dominant figure , things hinge round the dog , you know the holiday what shall we do with the dog , pouring down with rain but the dog has to go out for its walk and somebody has to take it . |
| 5 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 6 | My grey school skirt would be swapped for a rock-and-roll dirndl and six net petticoats , painstakingly dipped in sugar water to make them stiff when dry ; after the first four dances , the heat from my body would melt the sugar and my nylons would stick together . |
| 7 | And i and my lad would bring home all these damn great big books that he could n't read ! |
| 8 | And it w not like today the supermarket , every corner shop had it 's own particular news of the world you know and my mother-in-law used to go down and she used to come up and tell me all these things about the things that were going on . |
| 9 | And my brother must come out , too . |
| 10 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 11 | Despite these precautions , I quite often came home with a flea and my mother would take out the streaked bottle of calamine lotion and dab the itchy lumps . |
| 12 | The heading increases with latitude until at 82° latitude the satellite is going varies by up to 30 km and its attitude can change slightly , implying that the pointing direction of the sensor is not always truly vertical . |
| 13 | And the little one will lose heart and its life will drift away if it 's cut off for too long from its own animal world . ’ |
| 14 | As the main parties ponder the fateful nature of the developing contest in the capital , London and its doings will climb steadily up their agendas . |
| 15 | It is so much nonsense , and the Labour Party and its leaders would do well to admit it . |
| 16 | It can afford motivation as hardly anything else can , and its influence can help both society and individuals to a fuller and more satisfying form of life . |
| 17 | Newco and its advisers should consider how the target has taken care of the well-being of its employees , and whether it has conformed to health and safety legislation . |
| 18 | It was said that Ago and its ancillaries would end up costing the taxpayer £1.5 billion . |
| 19 | This advice was still being offered 1,200 years later , in the Middle Ages , when an expert on herb gardens wrote , ‘ Behind the turf plot let there be a great diversity of medicinal and aromatic herbs , among which Rue should be mingled in many places for its beauty and greenness , and its bitterness will drive away poisonous animals from the garden . ’ |
| 20 | August 1914 and its sequels will come out shortly . |
| 21 | It 's a snake , an Indian snake — and its poison can kill very quickly , ’ Holmes cried . |
| 22 | It can be tailored specifically to the needs of the child and parents and its design can vary widely . |
| 23 | Hundreds of firms across the United Kingdom , large and small , will benefit from this order over the next few years , and its value will approach about £400 million . |
| 24 | She used to sit behind her desk like this with her legs open and her knickers used to come down here , pink ones and blue ones . |
| 25 | Whereas she had seen the assessment as a way of addressing Tom 's unsettled home situation , establishing an objective base line from which she and her ex-husband could identify how their differences were affecting Tom , the EP refused to become involved in this area . |
| 26 | Maybe one day , she was thinking , her head and her hormones might agree over something ; and on that day the sun would rise and shine all morning , and fish would leap in the river , and all of her bills would turn out to be rebates . |
| 27 | The ecology people were still mailing all sorts of publications to her , and her mouth would set hard with pain when she read Lucy 's name in a list of credits or committee members . |
| 28 | It was three months before she and her baby could fly home . |
| 29 | It was three months before she and her baby could fly home . |
| 30 | In the ring the drivers and their horses must look as smart and well turned out as possible … but technique is essential too … |