Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have the lighting some distance away from the table , otherwise all your food , and you and your guests , will be covered in moths , mosquitos , and midges before you even reach to the main course . |
| 2 | His record includes robbery and burglary and he once gave £1,000 to a drug dealer for heroin . |
| 3 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 4 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 5 | First , the dual polity model suggests that the US states and local governments , plus Congress , are fundamentally pluralist in their organization and operations because they only handle secondary issues of little importance for national elites ( Mills , 1956 , p. 244 ) . |
| 6 | Multiply those beans by the fruits and vegetables that we now expect to find on supermarket shelves twelve months of the year at affordable ( cheap ) prices , and the dilemma of a million malnourished and impoverished producers of luxury foods is reflected in every casual purchase . |
| 7 | ‘ There are some marvellous directors and performers but they just do n't get a chance to show what they can do . |
| 8 | Fortunately our CAA is doing its very best for all of us , but some of the smaller countries can outvote the UK , France and Germany and we together have more pilots than the rest . |
| 9 | I also do a lot of aerobics and Emilio and I regularly play racketball . |
| 10 | Around me , as the pirates and Famlio stared at Gharr , the atmosphere grew so much charged with fury and tension that it almost crackled , like a defective energy field . |
| 11 | But it was also a time of exhaustion and tension as I desperately hurtled between work , father and family ; and of sorrow to see him suffering . |
| 12 | The next question was why had he gone to so much trouble and expense if he never intended to use this place as his base ? |
| 13 | By thirteen , I had become his eyes and ears as I already knew the name of every worthwhile trader of fruit and vegetables in Covent Garden . |
| 14 | ‘ I sometimes feel a great sense of loss and disappointment that she never saw me grow up . |
| 15 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |
| 16 | Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it . |
| 17 | I think it 's vital that any animal we hold in captivity , wild or otherwise is looked after properly and that it 's well done and for that you need help and guidance and you also need minimum standards to ensure it 's done well . |
| 18 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 19 | Meryl Streep is wonderfully comic as an actress who really wants to be a singer , while Shirley Maclaine shows her versatility and talent as she defiantly crashes through ‘ I 'm Still Here ’ . |
| 20 | They work as two separate writing teams Baddiel and Newman , Punt and Dennis before they collectively decide the material which goes into each show . |
| 21 | ‘ The children like convenience foods such as sausages or fishfingers and chips so we sometimes have that sort of thing , and occasionally we buy a takeaway from the chip shop . |
| 22 | The music of Taizé has grown out of a particular context , culture and spirituality and it effectively serves the need of the ecumenical community for which it is composed . |
| 23 | We are not amazed at their motivation and intelligence when they eagerly look up at us , willing us to throw the ball or the stick . |
| 24 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 25 | ‘ We have a dedicated fund set aside for the regions , specifically Northern Ireland and Scotland and we systematically go around the country to meet independent producers . |
| 26 | A happy working relationship is vital , and Jane and I quickly arrived at joint decisions about the project , choosing the clothes I would wear — light jacket , dark blue shirt and jeans — and deciding against the use of corny props ‘ appropriate ’ to my profession , such as books , a typewriter , or a bottle . |
| 27 | Without Kāli , the path seemed narrower , less clearly defined , and there were little forks and side-tracks that I only half-remembered . |
| 28 | Since then we have invested £1.5 million in new premises , plant and equipment and we now have the facilities and capabilities to service valves , wellheads , high speed rotating equipment and heavy frame turbine components in the area . |
| 29 | The pope may deliberate with certain sections of the clergy and laity but he alone decides and these groups are used as " rubber stamps " to endorse the proceedings . |
| 30 | But it 's the heart that rebels and protests that it just does n't feel right . |