Example sentences of "[det] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | We make the most of this and scoot off to the hospital . |
| 2 | Graham McClintoch of ‘ the indefensible ginger-coloured suit ’ has returned , and there are commemorative mentions of a ginger this and a ginger that . |
| 3 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 4 | With Doyle it 's ‘ fucking ’ this and ‘ fucking ’ that and the system this and the system that . |
| 5 | With Doyle it 's ‘ fucking ’ this and ‘ fucking ’ that and the system this and the system that . |
| 6 | Henry has no wish to do this and chooses to explain to Annie why he finds Brodie 's work clumsy and ill-constructed . |
| 7 | You do n't believe me , so I suggest you go out to bat with this and see how you get on . |
| 8 | The proposed change involved the deletion of this and its substitution by the following : |
| 9 | No more notes , he wrote , no more queries , no more space in the work of X and time in the work of Y , no more symbolism , no more allegory , no more influence of X and legacy of Y , no more background and no more foreground , no more social this and political that , no more Heidegger and no more Heisenberg , no more still life and no more portraiture , no more collage and no more frottage , no more lines and no more surfaces , no more genius and no more talent , no more creation and no more mechanical reproduction , no more African masks and no more Cycladic figures , no more clowns and no more nudes , no more museums , no more galleries , no more group shows , no more one-man shows , no more public commissions , no more prizes , no more shit and no more vomit . |
| 10 | It is investigating any barriers to this and ways to overcome them . |
| 11 | But Sauvignon does not come better than this and to my mind the del Cero Sauvignon has more grace , character and length than the much-vaunted Cloudy Bay Sauvignon from New Zealand , which is comparably priced . |
| 12 | Association director Richard Insoll warned : ‘ The Wine and Spirit Association will be reviewing this and other instances of apparent abuse of authority by EHOs in order to give its members the best advice . |
| 13 | ‘ This and that . ’ |
| 14 | I decided that they simply would n't have understood why I 'd done this and would now feel too hurt and abused ever to want to see me again . |
| 15 | I 'd taught many similarly wealthy girls during my lecturer days , so fortunately I did n't feel uneasy about this and just let her carry on . |
| 16 | Take cuttings of this and other shrub roses in September . |
| 17 | Usually they really believe this and do not accept that they have made a mistake . |
| 18 | Drink more than this and you run the risk of developing high blood pressure , which in turn can lead to heart attack or stroke . |
| 19 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 20 | Furlong is correct , however , in suggesting that anxiety was rife , and because of this and establishment obsessions with a belief in a statistical truth we were constantly being asked to give numerical estimates of how many there were ‘ out there ’ who were ‘ fixing ’ , ‘ using the weed ’ , or ‘ dropping acid ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Could you zip through this and see if it 's OK ? |
| 22 | ‘ All this and you have n't even got under the duvet with her yet , dear ! |
| 23 | Good referees are quick to pick up on this and impose penalties for persistent offenders . |
| 24 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 25 | More than this and you will be introducing endurance factors into the training . |
| 26 | Be prepared for this and ensure that you are close at hand with a reverse punch . |
| 27 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 28 | He commented specifically on this and his use of the Faulkner quotation by saying , ‘ When the writer has some urgency to speak , the subject matter becomes almost irrelevant . ’ |
| 29 | Ondaatje perceived this and described the book as being ‘ far nastier and more frightening ’ than Flowers For Hitler ; but the choice of words is unjust : there is nothing nasty or frightening about honest observation . |
| 30 | Substance and bundle dualism for this and other reasons are rather unpopular . |