Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hospital said she had cancer of the stomach , the throat , the liver , the bladder and everything . |
| 2 | Each patient had a functional gall bladder according to the evidence of a clearly visible gall bladder and its contractile response to egg yolk recorded on the drip infusion cholangiogram before operation , and by a total biliary lipid concentration greater than 50 g/l . |
| 3 | In 1934 he published another successful satirical novel , How Like an Angel , and a totally different book , Napoleon and his Marshals . |
| 4 | If what ( 102 ) entailed was : ( 104 ) You are Napoleon and you are socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Then ( 105 ) would have to have one reading under which it meant ( 106 ) , which it clearly does not have : ( 105 ) Vous n'etes pas Napoleon ( 106 ) You are Napoleon , and you are not socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Exactly the same , and additional , arguments can be shown to hold for the complex honorifics of " exotic " languages . |
| 5 | Still , I must say I 'm taken with yer nice manners and everything . ’ |
| 6 | Editors are one thing with their charming manners and their bunches of flowers , but their minions , the hard men , the pack , the exposers , are quite another . |
| 7 | Give him a nice straightforward GBH case in the back streets of the Cumbermound development any day rather than these smartarse church intellectuals with their fancy words and their finicky manners and their too high opinions of themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps people are being nave , ’ says Simon Muggleton , ‘ but these guys have the patter and the manners and they can be very convincing . |
| 9 | When you are born you are an uncivilised little savage with bad habits and no manners and it is the job of the GIANTS ( your parents and your teachers ) to train you and discipline you . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was his manners and his words . |
| 11 | It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book . |
| 12 | The Captain , Commander Bayldon , went to Portsmouth to interview some Marine Pensioners for the Steward 's replacement and was presumably successful as Sergeant Hembury and his wife were employed shortly after at £1 10s. 0d. per week , plus board and lodging . |
| 13 | Furthermore , a constant emphasis on development in old age may be at variance with both our intellectual and our emotional response to decay and death . |
| 14 | Mr Afshar was not an intellectual and his position did not afford him great administrative power . |
| 15 | The potential conflict between his financial responsibilities as a royal office-holder and his obligations as a servant or client of the Villiers interest emerged openly in the Parliaments of 1624–6 . |
| 16 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 17 | A brand new set and they come with the ra with the , erm free wheel and everything all in like , just screw them on . |
| 18 | ‘ I take over the wheel and we lose them , the whole shooting match . ’ |
| 19 | We brought back four tail wheel struts complete with the tyres and axles and everything else on them and I got to weld this high-strength steel onto that carbon steel that was on the , the wheel and we wound up with a nice trailer with four B-Seventeen tail wheels on it . |
| 20 | All they carried was the car 's normal spare wheel and its tool kit . |
| 21 | She only realised then that she was sitting behind the wheel and her flushed face flushed even further as she moved across with great difficulty . |
| 22 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 23 | The boat lurched as his hands slackened on the wheel and it hit the wake of a speeding launch . |
| 24 | or abilities and build on it cos at the moment everybody 's re-inventing the wheel and you 're making a lot of work in my opinion . |
| 25 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 26 | Then it was brother Alan 's turn to get behind the wheel and he passed . |
| 27 | ‘ All sight if I walk up a bit ? he called to Marty , who was leaning forward with his elbow on the wheel and his open palm supporting his chin . |
| 28 | Breeze and Gay were turning their steps towards Sunset Cottage when a terrific hoot made them look round ; and there was the Blessington-Dalrymples ' car , with Basil at the wheel and his parents and sister behind . |
| 29 | doing about sixty and I felt a twitch in the wheel and I thought shit ! |
| 30 | Take a seat behind the wheel and there is n't much to get the pulses racing either . |