Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was very difficult to get the venture capitalists and the bankers to take it seriously .
2 The data is then made public ; the full dataset and the commands to set it up for processing by the statistical package SPSS- X can be obtained from the Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive at the University of Essex for the cost of processing .
3 Kurowski stops the car at the flat , and the girls invite him upstairs .
4 Lady Southdown rose to her feet and the girls followed her out of the room .
5 You know when you flick them out and the teachers took them off of them .
6 The religious implications of this are clear ; but to our present purpose we notice that the vagrants and the beggars lead us away from ‘ economic man ’ towards other kinds of existence .
7 The next morning the episode was the talk of all the bazaars in Cairo ; and the bazaars enjoyed it greatly .
8 Only Greenidge and Lloyd kept them afloat as Snow and Underwood bowled really well and the fielders backed them up .
9 Hilary , of course , batted , and the boys took it in turns to bowl .
10 I suppose he told a good tale and the boys let him in .
11 He seemed either ill or very much depressed , and the strangers avoided him instinctively .
12 Madeleine came up to see me last Monday for a couple of days and arrived with a sore throat too , so she had a well deserved rest after the excesses of their very social Christmas and life and also encouraged me , the weather and the throats keeping us indoors , to do some MUCH needed turning out .
13 It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom .
14 Mr Garel-Jones : In the case of the EC treaties and the treaties amending them there has been a practice of annexing protocols to the treaties and of adopting Declarations in connection with conclusion of the treaties .
15 ‘ But Zanskar , in the olden days it was part of the Kingdom of the Sikhs , and the Sikhs called it Little Tibet .
16 The problems that arise from the development of a new crop on a research station and the attempts to recreate it in economically and environmentally diverse farms outside can in this way be avoided ( CIMMYT 1980 , Biggs , 1981 ) .
17 One of them stepped forward , bouncing frantically to the music , and the others followed her down the catwalk .
18 When he had them so placed , he spurred ahead and drew dear , and the archers cut them down like corn .
19 What happened in Liverpool when Liverpool were playing ho oh , Nottingham Forest , and what happened was is that there was extra fans coming in to the ground and the police let them in and then everyone just started to get squashed and all that .
20 Then all the glass started to go everywhere and the police helped us out of the area . ’
21 There is no doubt Operation Overdrive has reduced the scale and frequency of displays in Oxford , but a hard core of youngsters persist and the Police say they alone can not solve the problem .
22 He says the countryside brings in tourists and the attractions teach them more about the countryside .
23 This was folded and stored in a paper envelope for nearly a hundred years , and the creases make it very unlikely we shall ever be able to play it on an original machine .
24 Joanna had been living at Ashby Chase for many months and the serfs knew her well .
25 Connery goes visiting his old school in Edinburgh , which is not in the prettiest part , and the kids ask him how much he earns and whether his mam wanted him to be an actor and whether he was good at school .
26 The patterned cobbles reflected its heat and the buildings bounced it back and forth .
27 Betty demonstrates the way they are to tackle the task and the pupils carry it out in unison , at least initially .
28 The nursery was the first to offer garden designs and the workmen to carry them out , as well as stocks of all the necessary plants , from forest trees to flowering bulbs and evergreens — especially citrus trees , myrtles , jasmines , and other tender shrubs — for the greenhouse , and fruit trees , vegetables , and everything needed in the kitchen garden .
29 He wanted to be free — of all constraints , all material imperatives , of all the forces hunting him and the opportunities drawing him on .
30 We are lucky to have such an eminent man on call , and the drivers trust him absolutely as I 'm sure you know . ’
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