Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps people are being nave , ’ says Simon Muggleton , ‘ but these guys have the patter and the manners and they can be very convincing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , hillwalking is largely safe but there are risks and we have to educate people about these risks if we are going to improve safety . |
| 4 | ‘ I take risks , but they 're calculated risks and I would n't take them if I did n't think they had a good chance of succeeding . |
| 5 | Take just a few more risks and you 'll find that the wild world is not as unkind as you may have believed . |
| 6 | They probably would n't serve me anyway ; little rich girl on the hill , her friends ‘ dabble ’ in the arts and they do n't take smack and neither does she , really , except on weekends . |
| 7 | Next week I shall be talking to Peter Abbs about teaching the arts and he will be reading some very interesting children 's poetry . |
| 8 | But then that question was asked last night erm from one chap about sport versus the arts and I suppose to me it is a quality of life issue erm where do you start an and stop I mean you have a problem when you have a recession do n't you , where you say okay we i we are in a recession we have got limited resources we have to make decisions . |
| 9 | Follow South East Arts and you will be able to help judge these competitions next year , and if you 're enterprising enough yourself in nineteen eighty three , you may even qualify for an award yourself . |
| 10 | It could be , of course , that these are the only people interested in the arts and it is a waste of time trying to increase the proportion of the modern equivalent of the footman of nice morality . |
| 11 | I 'm going to tell you a little bit this morning about South East Arts and it 's support for the visual arts in the South East here . |
| 12 | It would obtain to the person who had gone out and not to his heirs and successors and it would involve his going out and someone else taking on his land . |
| 13 | Other fish live in small water bodies , which are influenced by heavy rainfall and drought , which considerably affect the water 's characteristics and they are more tolerant . |
| 14 | However , ‘ Motherese ’ is composed of many different characteristics and it seems reasonable to suppose that there is considerable variation among adults in respect of how far these features are reflected in their speech to young children . |
| 15 | The boarding-school had a few pets and we were allowed to look after them in our free time . |
| 16 | Very dan very difficult you 've got to take steps of blocking off drains and stopping it getting in the waterways and you , you succeed sometimes , you do n't success on other times and this is why er these accidents happen where all the fish and places die and people get contaminated , cattle get contaminated , all sorts of things . |
| 17 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 18 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 19 | They were very fey little songs and they were very pleasant , but they were not earth-shaking . |
| 20 | I wrote all the songs and they were awful but that 's the way you mature . |
| 21 | Many of the new hymn books include worship songs and they find widespread acceptance . |
| 22 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 23 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
| 24 | I 've got to play some flamenco and bass on a couple of songs and I get to do lots of weird effects and things . ’ |
| 25 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
| 26 | He teaches me one of his songs and I sing it while he plays the guitar . |
| 27 | She still , at this point , disliked the songs and it was n't until she was in the studio and involved that she found a passionate core to the music and began to revel in it . |
| 28 | ‘ The more I 'm into music and the more I 'm into guitar playing , I realise it is n't about how great a guitar player you are ; it 's about writing songs and it 's about fitting guitar and voice together . |
| 29 | ‘ I have always wanted to write songs and you find yourself having to learn to play the guitar . ’ |
| 30 | It was one of his favourite songs and he was showing them all in the lounge bar at Ingham 's how it should be sung one Saturday night . |