Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there were the the dose was reduced and then I had to come off them altogether and after twenty nine years of dieting unsuccessfully I gave up dieting and I have n't put on any weight since I gave up dieting ! |
| 2 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 3 | The children were taken into care in mid-1987 because of their parents ' inability to look after them properly and following suspicions of sexual abuse against the girl . |
| 4 | but er otherwise I 'll , I 'll would n't , I never want to go back to Nazeing not after now and , and now the , this new town we were taken shopping the other Tuesday , it was really lovely and we see all the shops , first time I 've really seen them properly and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and we were all given erm in a , is it Blockers one of the shops ? |
| 5 | Declaring variables as local , creates them locally and initialises them to zero/null . |
| 6 | Auguste regarded them grimly and with foreboding . |
| 7 | Doubt is a state of mind in suspension between faith and unbelief so that it is neither of them wholly and it is each only partly . |
| 8 | Pupils should be encouraged to formulate first the questions they need to answer by using such sources , so that they use them effectively and do not simply copy verbatim ; |
| 9 | Thank them politely and choose someone else . |
| 10 | Lowell told them politely and falsely that it was good to see them . |
| 11 | Sat there through the night , closing my eyes at times , then opening them slowly and allowing the glass to impose itself . |
| 12 | You get on them slowly and they register one weight ; if you jump on them with gusto they register something quite different . |
| 13 | Place your thumbs on the chin and pull them slowly and firmly outwards and upwards along the jaw bone to the ear . |
| 14 | ‘ But I knew there was a book in me somewhere and so I decided to put my personal experiences of the war down on paper . ’ |
| 15 | My mother glared at me suspiciously and told me not be so ridiculous . |
| 16 | She studied me suspiciously and this strengthened my belief that Ralemberg had his own secrets . |
| 17 | Although nearly everyone experiences an occasional craving , some people have them intensely and often . |
| 18 | He greeted me politely and we quickly got into conversation . |
| 19 | He thanked me politely and returned to his prying , looking in all the drawers , flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea . |
| 20 | ‘ The girl was walking on the pavement when the bus crashed into railings damaging them badly and the side of the bus hit her a glancing blow , ’ he said . |
| 21 | He did his best to keep me right and we had some great times together , on and off the pitch . ’ |
| 22 | There has never been any difficulty finding the facts in Northern Ireland — the news media comb through them relentlessly and university libraries are crammed full of academic literature on the troubles . |
| 23 | She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country . |
| 24 | Someone obviously agreed with me eventually and it was changed to its present cream colour , which is a vast improvement . |
| 25 | He admired them duly and was forced to join in with a chorus of auld lang syne downstairs . |
| 26 | It also criticized the Department of Transport ( DTp ) for not applying them vigorously and called on the department to widen the scope of inspections and review methods of enforcement . |
| 27 | Cos if you take them back , you 've got to keep them somewhere and building societies and banks are charging much more than they used to for actually keeping safe deposit . |
| 28 | There are the odd ones when Bill sells them I hide them somewhere and he 'll say ’ It 's got to go , it 's got to go ! |
| 29 | So he 's got all his bricks up virtually I think he said , but I ai n't worried about it cos I 'll get rid of them somewhere and I helped him out , I sold this car and , and told him what I was doing and he come I 've just the thing for you , just cos was having bricks like your dad 's , the sand grain sort of brick , you know . |
| 30 | Ryan he says it 's foolish , cards , he says mum when you just , you just put them somewhere and forget where you put them , so he says I 've decided to buy you oh this looks a lovely one |