Example sentences of "and [adj] [adj] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that old man I 'm telling you the God 's truth , I watched him when I was coming school many a time , used to go to Anglesey with a rope in his pocket here . |
| 2 | never liked her , she knew it and all , and that last day I walked out I said bye , bye Debbie , she said , she went , she got in , in the car quick |
| 3 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 4 | Erm resolution eight er , set out in the notice of the meeting to increase the aggregate annual sum available for directors ' fees to two hundred and fifty thousand pounds I put the resolution to the meeting those in favour any against I declare the resolution carried as an ordinary re resolution . |
| 5 | and each lightless day I hear the crying shades : |
| 6 | Well I I think that the honourable gentleman really must accept that er coming from a party which is er in office in er in the Welsh office and has er two hundred million , two hundred and eight million pounds I think unaccounted for last year , it really ill becomes him er to lecture , to lecture anybody . |
| 7 | And this particular time I said , well maybe we should use Durex . |
| 8 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 9 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 10 | JERVIS : Why , she is one of the most virtuous and industrious young creatures I ever knew . |
| 11 | I 'd find a field or a park bench , and early next morning I 'd head on down to the sea . |
| 12 | they are warm , er , but its colour , I do n't know whether I perhaps I , if I saw cream again this year I might buy it , but erm , I 'm not sure that I want erm there 's this deep red , because I 've , I 've bought a red one in a different style , same sort of fabric , its very do you remember ? , when I bought that black and white checked skirt I bought a red |
| 13 | And all those things I said , I was just guessing really . |
| 14 | But he said , " Do n't sleep with him " , and all this time I was pregnant . |
| 15 | My head spun that night , and all next day I felt weak and disordered . |
| 16 | Hello and Happy New Year I 've just returned to uni after the crimble hols and have just finished shifting through all the e-mail — thank god the Wilko/List abuse thread has finished ! ! ! ! |
| 17 | I am pleased that I will be working even more closely with Carmen , whose expertise and uncompromising literary tastes I so greatly admire . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah I 've learnt a lot basically , I 've learnt erm erm basically what sort of organization that is and those other ones I could mention as well which run along the same sort of lines erm I 've learnt to look after myself |
| 19 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 20 | yes , and er , that , that 's one of the plants I had given me , yeah I have some lov I have some lovely presents you know really great they are , quite nice at the part we , we have a , the children they , they er have games for the children to start with we do for the grandchildren you see and then er we have the dancing and the erm disco , it was great , we have a lovely party every October we have and I have all my friends we had about a hundred and eighty this year I think , must of been |
| 21 | I discovered Negley Farson 's Going Fishing , and one magic afternoon I unearthed a copy of Izaak Walton 's Compleat Angler , which he wrote in 1676 . |
| 22 | Mid-term between the 1983 and 1987 General Elections I had lunch with a friend ; the film producer David Wickes . |
| 23 | For even taking into account my employer 's generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ , the costs of such a trip might still come to a surprising amount considering such matters as accommodation , meals , and any small snacks I might partake of on my way . |
| 24 | I 'm not naturally slim , and any excess weight I do put on shows because I 'm only 5′ 1″ . |
| 25 | I was to keep on with the Radio Column , some reviews , and any special features I could dream up . |
| 26 | they were half price , erm , it cost them a hundred and twenty nine quid I think |
| 27 | Without the help of ACET and other similar organisations I would not have been able to continue and maintain my independence . |
| 28 | But without the help of ACET and other voluntary organisations I would not have been able to maintain my independence . ’ |
| 29 | Which scabrous , sarky interviewer could give Fall-derivatives , football-obsessive and all-around smart alecs I , LUDICROUS a good going-over as their ‘ Idiots Savants ’ LP sneaks out ? |
| 30 | About a hundred and thirty nine return I think . |