Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince was hitting at the running men with the flat of his sabre , but they feared an emperor far more than they feared a prince and so they kept on running . |
| 2 | And then I was dozing a bit and while we were watching like Arachnophobia we were we were still in bed but about four hours sleep just about . |
| 3 | Tidy it up a bit and if we get time |
| 4 | If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed . |
| 5 | She was walking now with a stick and as she sat down heavily at the table she seemed depressed . |
| 6 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 7 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 8 | Wilson knew that some visiting Americans had let it be widely known in Florence that they considered Mrs Browning little more than a ghost and though she had laughed such gossip to scorn she now saw there was perhaps real cause for alarm . |
| 9 | I hope he scores a try and if he keeps his place for the Five Nations at my expense , good luck to him . ’ |
| 10 | Well we we 'll stop and you can have a look and if they 're any good |
| 11 | You see there 's a general principle there is quite a lot of information in that cupboard that I keep saying 's there , have a look and as we get stuff |
| 12 | The aircraft went into a dive and when it broke through the cloud base the pilot saw the ground less than 1000 feet below him . |
| 13 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 14 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 15 | You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than |
| 16 | Employees approach their manager to discuss the possibility of a break and if they take up the option they are kept in touch with progress via magazines , company literature etc . |
| 17 | " I saw a hare and after I 'd found the body there was a sparrowhawk , a kestrel . " |
| 18 | Of the 10 cardinals , three had refused to sign the verdict , Francesco demanded a pardon and when it was refused he persuaded his brother to make life ‘ imprisonment ’ that of house arrest in the home of a sympathetic bishop . |
| 19 | erm , and there are two aspects , that they can a stimulant and whilst I 'm , I would agree that many women , it is part of dealing with problems in their lives , coping with stress , that part of that is also withdrawal symptoms from the nicotine , and |
| 20 | Yeah , the uni er the uniform branch turn up to investigate a crime and if they find fingerprints they will get what 's known as a scenes of crime officer to take the fingerprints off the wall , yeah ? |
| 21 | If I was not a priest and if I was in your position , I imagine I would feel the same . |
| 22 | one of them said , you know , he said how , how the hell how the hell can they say which directions the fire 's coming from ? but they , I mean some of them were saying like this mate he run out , he was going across this patch of open space and the soldier obviously saw a soldier and as he did that apparently he got shot through there and out the other side of him . |
| 23 | This is a haematoma and if it is in an area where you are likely to receive further knocks , you should withdraw from the competition . |
| 24 | The family did not own a car and so they made their journey by coach . |
| 25 | It is above a traiteur and as he makes love with Candice Riberon , they are bathed , marinated and fêted by the scents of the food from below . |
| 26 | I ent ever hit a child and if I ever do it 'll be with the skin of me hand . |
| 27 | We are up against a ceiling and if we added new areas to the map , we should have to remove other areas . |
| 28 | How many of you have lost weight , reached a plateau and before you know it you 're back where you started ? |
| 29 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 30 | She had sent her younger son to a private school because the switch to comprehensives was such a mess and because he had a horror of a huge education factory after his primary school where everybody was known by their first name . |