Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got a little work-bench in there , and me stores of sprays and weed-killers and potting compost . |
| 2 | I stood on my grave and my flesh knew all there is to know of clay , and my bones of stone . |
| 3 | I am male which means I can not have children , I am somewhat reserved by nature so I am unlikely to be the life and soul of anyone 's party , and my chances of becoming King are very slim . |
| 4 | Seven years later , my experience of further education has grown and my perceptions of it have inevitably changed . |
| 5 | How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ? |
| 6 | I felt totally drawn into the piece as I recognised struggled I 've had with my own mother and my feelings of shame , and fear , talking about sex — the terrible silence that develops which no one attempts to break down for fear of the pain ‘ that ‘ conversation would bring ’ . |
| 7 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 8 | It was at school , and my memories of chemistry is laboratories full of stink bombs , full of bangs , and rather unpleasant chemicals . |
| 9 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I have a little tincture of jealousy too , which has made me more uneasy than I ought to be , particularly in the case of Miss Sally Godfrey and my fears of what might happen when we reach London . |
| 10 | Fielding held the crimson menu ( silken , tasselled and beautified , reminding me and my fingers of Selina and her secrets ) in slender brown hands , the wrists cuffed in pale blue and the gold links taut on their chains . |
| 11 | Last year this formula robbed East Cumbria and my constituents of many thousands of pounds . |
| 12 | My interest was entirely personal and motivated by my recent visits to , and my impressions of , the English prisons and young offenders ' institutions . |
| 13 | The contrast is made all the more poignant by the ‘ Lithium ’ promo vid and its scenes of psyched-up mayhem from last year 's Reading . |
| 14 | One of the most disgraceful international aspects of what is going on in Bosnia is that Western leaders , including our own , seem to be accepting the escalating Serbian brutality , and its consequences of carnage , rape , starvation and terror as if it were inevitable and beyond their combined capacities for effective reaction or remedy . |
| 15 | Although the current five-year term of the People 's Action Party ( PAP ) administration could have run until 1993 [ for 1988 general election see pp. 36352-53 ] , Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong who succeeded the veteran Lee Kuan Yew in November 1990 , wished to secure a popular mandate for his leadership and its changes of policy emphasis [ see p. 37860 ] . |
| 16 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 17 | Task Force Bayonet launched its platoon of light tanks and its companies of armoured personnel carriers against the HQ of the Panamanian Defence Forces ( PDF ) . |
| 18 | In order to protect the public from the charlatan or the quack , entry into the profession must be guarded , its standards polic-ed , and its rules of practice defined in the first instance by the profession itself … |
| 19 | The three authors focus on the artistic mode of production , its socio-historic contextualisation , and its patterns of collection respectively . |
| 20 | The continued consequences of the Prague spring and its depletions of the Czech officer corps , if no threat to the reliability of the Czechoslovakian People 's Army , are bound to have implications for its effectiveness . |
| 21 | The air was full of sounds — the jangle of reins or goat bells , noises — could they travel so far ? — of parties making for , perhaps already on , the lake ready to take advantage of the promised full moon , dog barkings , cow lowings , sheep , horses : the town and its fjords of fields was as restless as he with the hidden cries of the night . |
| 22 | Marx argued that the state and its forms of intervention not only reflect the balance of class relations in capitalist society but atomise , and therefore diffuse ( and defuse ) , imminent class conflict . |
| 23 | Indeed , so marked was the Judaic orientation of the Celtic Church that it is on record as having been explicitly accused of Judaism , and its adherents of being Jews . |
| 24 | The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and its Codes of Practice affect many aspects of police practice and procedure . |
| 25 | While Labour increased both its percentage of the vote and its Members of Parliament , the Liberal share of votes declined and it broke even on the ratio of seats lost and gained and because of its dubious victory in Cheltenham . |
| 26 | Its hillside position is exceptional and its views of the surrounding countryside entrancing , but it is best known among Italians as the place gentle Saint Francis is said to have tamed a mean , ferocious wolf which had been terrorising locals . |
| 27 | In general there was far less emphasis on the city and its problems of law and order , and that particular genre became just one small part of Hollywood 's total output . |
| 28 | These assumptions and beliefs are learned responses to a group 's problems of survival in its external environment and its problems of internal integration . |
| 29 | Such an elegant and delicate little salad with its walnuts and its lemon dressing and its fresh lettuce base and its morsels of white fowl-flesh . |
| 30 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |