Example sentences of "and [noun sg] and [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John did not have his brother Bobby 's ease on a platform but he had more integrity and honesty and he knew he had to do it . |
| 2 | And that 's a , and that 's them all over the country , not only Edinburgh , all over the country , in north south east and west and you name it . |
| 3 | ‘ You run and stumble and I bear you to the ground . ’ |
| 4 | He had gone in search of gold and glory and they thought the better of him for it ; even the composer of the ‘ New World Symphony ’ was careful to sound the horns of triumph . |
| 5 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ I had on this little dress , smock it was , with this pretty embroidery all over the bodice , sort of Heidi , and Mum and I did my pigtails . ’ |
| 7 | The woman had taunted him for his lack of passion and forthrightness and she had walked off with one of the young dockers . |
| 8 | Some of his characters develop , and change and we follow their progress but others such as Pumblechook do n't change and our first impressions of them will not change . |
| 9 | Well I was sent to the erm United , well it was n't a United Reform Church then but it was called the Chapel and I was sent to there , to Sunday School there , mornings and afternoon and we went two by two across to the Chapel , you see , so while my father , we used to walk down the street together . |
| 10 | To Charles he was an indispensable source of wisdom and experience and he relished the time spent in his company . |
| 11 | Then a new journey into light and noise and he had come to where he was now . |
| 12 | They are to the effect that a refusal is reasonable if : ( i ) it is based upon the personality of the proposed assignee or upon the proposed use or occupation of the premises ; or ( ii ) it is based on the contract between lessor and lessee and it safeguards the interests granted or reserved to the lessor by the lease ; or ( iii ) it is reasonable in a general sense , taking into account the surrounding circumstances , the commercial realities of the market-place and the economic impact of an assignment on the landlord . |
| 13 | My brother and I treat them as full brother and sister and we spoil them rotten . |
| 14 | Er , mine died when I was nine and my mother has been my mother and a father to both myself my brother and sister and I feel she 's done just as good a job as I could of as my father could have done . |
| 15 | The factory which was in Leith had what would now he called a creche where the children could it and play and he looked after whilst the mothers got on with the ground sheets … and the war . |
| 16 | They are a waste of time and money and I do n't believe they work |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I was sitting in the TV station next to a large man with glasses and beard and I felt I knew him . |
| 18 | experiences and daycare and you know , even in er child care and so on . |
| 19 | science and geography and I got art nice . |
| 20 | When the cheque was dishonoured the seller did all he could to trace the rogue and car and he informed the police . |
| 21 | It is true that many films and television programmes are about violence and murder and it does n't take long for children to copy ideas . |
| 22 | You want a cup and tea and you name it . |
| 23 | As Gabriel trailed behind her boss 's resolute stride she ought to have felt angry at the words of abuse , but she knew that they represented Rose 's own fury and fear and she felt sympathy . |
| 24 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 25 | ‘ Ron Atkinson enjoys life and football and it gets through to everyone at Aston Villa . |
| 26 | Hide added : ‘ I 'm fit , I 'm fast and I hit hard , ’ before heading towards stratospheric levels of self-delusion by saying : ‘ I 'm better than Evander Holyfield , I 've got better footwork and speed and I do n't get hit like him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got a new manager and agent and I do n't think the word the word ‘ rest ’ is in their vocabulary . |
| 28 | He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled . |
| 29 | It 's got hair , eyes , nose and mouth and it 's got a big yellow sun , has n't it , shining over and it 's the bestest picture you 've ever seen since you last went to the art gallery . |
| 30 | But since he 's been up here , he 's been eating me out of house and home and he does n't pay for it |