Example sentences of "and [pos pn] kind " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	‘ She 's bright and fun and my kind of girl .
2	PAMELA : And my kind protector many miles off .
3	Forced to listen to all those hoary chestnuts that cast me and my kind as the bad guys , and the butt of all the jokes .
4	Perhaps she was still too much like Miss Harker and her kind for him to feel comfortable .
5	He denies his readers the pleasure of feeling superior , too : they must come to terms with Sylvia and her kind , who are not so rare as is commonly supposed , and a novel is a good place in which to begin the process .
6	Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have reconstructed a skeletal foot to show that Lucy and her kind Australopithecus afarensis ) would fit into the footprints at Laetoli .
7	There has been much disagreement among palaeontologists whether this indicated hunting or scavenging , but Ruby told us that she and her kind stayed as far as possible away from these large animals , for the freshly expired bodies were invariably surrounded by hyenas and big cats .
8	We wanted to know whether Ruby and her kind ever used another object to modify the rocks or sticks they found , to make true tools , in the human sense .
9	Dr Starkie and her kind are cursed with memory : the books they teach and write about can never fade from their brains .
10	She and her kind
11	Then , on the same scale , how far would you have to walk , in order to get back to Lucy and her kind , the earliest human fossils that unequivocally walked upright ?
12	Some of these varieties turn out to have lost the power of self-replication , and their kind ceases to exist when they themselves cease to exist .
13	He , the renegade and iconoclast : fighting the good fight , ripping down false prophets , the sirens of hate ; putting torch to the bigots , the moralists and their kind .
14	Eileen knew what she had thought of the Arbuthnots and their kind , until she fell in love with Philip .
15	James V had failed to subdue the Armstrongs and their kind .
16	Shepherds and their kind did n't normally wait in the main hall of High Brook .
17	Pound and his kind want to ignore them .
18	And in their little place Pound and his kind suffocate , their fear turns to hate .
19	Exchanging one kind of social and economic brutalism for another is not what Havel and his kind have in mind , nor do such prescriptions fit the democratic habit of the Czech temperament , formed long before communism 's arrival to power .
20	She will have no more truck with Abraham and his kind !
21	Sir Walter thinks he has captured something ( the soul , the imagination ? ) which he associates with joy and his kind of pleasure .
22	All her life she had been taught that Philip and his kind were aliens in possession of land which they had stolen from its rightful owners .
23	Joyce and his kind had given the Communists a ready argument for enlisting working-class Jews in an anti-Fascist crusade .
24	Cecil Roberts and his kind scarcely knew of the existence of such productions as the Deputy Leader of the British Union of Fascists .
25	Maybe that is the problem for Soames and his kind .
26	He and his kind are unlikely to be deterred by exultation .
27	He had a number of handbills which he was distributing to everyone who passed so I took one nonchalantly and his kind , brown eyes smiled .
28	To placate the hon. Member for Pembroke and his kind , the Government introduced the council tax — a property-poll tax hybrid that makes but fleeting reference to ability to pay .
29	If you and your kind had made it obligatory for a ship to carry a drogue , all ready bent , for letting go , I would have let one go .
30	‘ There is a land , ’ she was whispering , each word seeming difficult for her , each word needing courage , ‘ there is a place to the north of here , far to the north , where red deer range and your kind fly free .

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