Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun sg] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My eyes feel all hot and my head 's prickly like someone 's pulled my hair . |
| 2 | But he was risen from the golfing dead , so to speak , and my friend is interested in what an agent can achieve for minor stars , as well as superstars . ’ |
| 3 | He breeds budgies and my conservatory was full of birds . |
| 4 | But , John , put yourself in the customer 's shoes , and my wife 's one of your customers . |
| 5 | But , as Bruch has pointed out , anorexics tend to deny fatigue , and my diary is full of complaints such as , ‘ felt dead tired ’ . |
| 6 | And his son in law O J , had become one of the partners and my cousin was one of the partners , but old Jonathan was still the senior partner . |
| 7 | For the purpose of this memoir , the details are irrelevant , and my experience was commonplace to that time of life ; but I needed to talk to someone . |
| 8 | ‘ I hate earthy browns and my wardrobe is full of bright things , ’ she says . |
| 9 | The same way with the bombardier waste gunner , radio operators , engineers and all the gunners , so that our crews were all buddy-buddy. crew and my crew were buddy-buddy from the minute we were formed , right on through , I guess you might say the rest of our lives here , even though we have not gotten together since the war but I have talked to on the phone one time when I was in New York City . |
| 10 | I 'm nearly twelve and my mind is messy with 0 level results and general problems . |
| 11 | Do you know , Michael Riven , that I and my father are two of the lucky ones ? ’ |
| 12 | Julia 's room is next to his , and my room is next to Julia 's . |
| 13 | Of course I can not sleep , and my body is feverish with tremors and the shrieking of women 's names . |
| 14 | He made me feel that my ideas and my interest were important to him . |
| 15 | That cousin and his wife were against me and my husband was frightened of them . |
| 16 | What I 'm worried about at the moment is that large numbers of people are buying computers , especially some of the cheaper ones , and my prediction is that after a few weeks , they get put into cupboards , and are n't used , because they are so unfriendly , so hard to use , whereas in principle computers could be very powerful and useful devices in the home . |
| 17 | My throat just would n't swallow food , and my mouth was dry with an unexpected onset of acute nervousness . |
| 18 | Suzie 's only seventeen and both I and my mother are frantic about her safety . |
| 19 | My father has black hair and brown eyes and my mother is blonde with blue eyes . |
| 20 | Both he and my mother were keen for Thomas and me to go and live with them there , but I preferred to be independent . |
| 21 | I was suffering severe and painful withdrawal symptoms , and my mother was alarmed by my fits of weeping , my chronic insomnia , my thinness . |
| 22 | ‘ They took two of the children and my mother was one of them . |
| 23 | That distinction , shockingly banal though it is , has been hard to shake from my mind , and its persistence is one of the things I want to explore in this article . |
| 24 | Doubtless the slow ‘ stately ’ motion of Jupiter in its orbit and its brightness were some of the reasons for which the Romans gave to this planet the name Jupiter , the Roman king of the gods . |
| 25 | Here , the study of foregrounding and its interpretation is likely to be a better guide to the aesthetic function of language than the study of stylistic variants . |
| 26 | Its worship and its priests and its teaching are strange to the society in which it lives . |
| 27 | When tolerated , elemental diet is as effective in the short term as prednisolone in newly and previously diagnosed Crohn 's disease , and its benefit is independent of nutritional state . |
| 28 | Thus , AEA is now beginning to contemplate a future in which it becomes an independent business , and its management is excited by the prospect . |
| 29 | The nature of the Church and its tradition were central to the unfinished business from Vatican I ; Modernism and the Roman reaction to it had left serious questions about the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible and about the development of doctrine ; the Liturgical Movement was already revealing both the need for major pastoral renewal and a vision of what its fruits could be , not merely inside the Catholic Church but also in its ecumenical relations . |
| 30 | If it is thought that the growers of any kind of grain in any part of the world have been losing money , and are likely to sow a smaller area for a future harvest ; it is argued that prices are likely to rise as soon as that harvest comes into sight , and its shortness is manifest to all . |