Example sentences of "and [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not only can we match any skin , from lightest to darkest , ’ he says , ‘ but we can give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants in a foundation or powder . |
| 2 | ‘ We can match any skin , and give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants ’ |
| 3 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 4 | I use it as a compressor on vocals and guitar when I 'm recording . ’ |
| 5 | But I was kind of forced into that because it was only bass and guitar and I was trying to do as much rhythm as I could , but stab a few notes in here and there to make it sound like there was more than there really was . |
| 6 | Such identity and unity as she possessed in these years was essentially the identity and unity of a system of power , though one beginning to decay . |
| 7 | Central heating pipes expand as they heat up and contract as they cool down , and this can cause irritating ticking or creaking noises . |
| 8 | We were working with the council at ten pence and hour so we thought we were going to improve on that a wee bit . |
| 9 | Neither have we overlooked the youngsters — in fact we have created the ‘ Acorn Club ’ for the sole purpose of entertaining them with exciting excursions and activities while you relax elsewhere . |
| 10 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 11 | Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do . |
| 12 | The situation might be improved if young girls were allowed to develop sexual feelings and activities when they reached puberty . |
| 13 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |
| 14 | It does not lend itself to detailed cost investigation of departments and activities because it does not indicate where the overheads are actually consumed . |
| 15 | I feel sorry only for Eugenie and Beatrice because they will suffer a great deal seeing their mother and father not living together under the same roof . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We 've danced on stage with Pete and Michaela and we got to meet Aswad . ’ |
| 18 | She was buoyed up suddenly on the wave of amazement and admiration that she could feel enveloping her from across the whole room . |
| 19 | Tessa had subdued the two boys , Bob discovered with relief and admiration when he went out to the living-room . |
| 20 | He had been working the river between Luxor and Aswan since he was 12 . |
| 21 | I 've written her notes and notes and notes and she 's never answered one of them . |
| 22 | " … a guide for the medical practitioners of both tropical and temperate regions to the origins and diagnosis of infections that are tropical as opposed to being cosmopolitan , and of great value for training and teaching because it reproduces much better and more comprehensively than is possible with ordinary textbooks the appearance of specimens that will be examined … has been prepared with great care and deserves to remain one of the standard texts in the subject for many years . " |
| 23 | After 5 days in Rotorua we went south to Taupo , a disappointing touristy place except for a lovely walk to the Huka Falls beside the crystal-clear , swirling waters of the Waikato River , and a visit to Cherry Island ( in the river ) where you are warmly greeted by numerous tame animals and birds as you roam around . |
| 24 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 25 | She disappeared out the back again and Katrina and I had a blitz on the cleaning , finishing up behind the counter . |
| 26 | She 'd dressed for breakfast in shorts and T-shirt and it was n't the ideal outfit for talking business with hotel managers . |
| 27 | HE has already won novice chases at Cheltenham and Bangor and we hope he will win a few more , although he could n't cope with Barton Bank at Worcester recently . |
| 28 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 29 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 30 | Sidney Lee states that when Lambarde was presented to Queen Elizabeth I she complained to him that Shakespeare 's Richard II was played forty times earlier that year with seditious intent in streets and houses and she viewed it with suspicion . |