Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are patronising and they insult us by not understanding — and ignoring — the real requirements of our time . |
| 2 | She might lose him but for now he was as enslaved as she was and Maggie caressed him as he caressed her until his kisses grew more demanding and he turned her beneath him again . |
| 3 | Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel . |
| 4 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 5 | Having secured his freedom , his sexual appetite continued unabated and he threw himself into an even more vigorous life of carnal debauchery . |
| 6 | After all , these services are free and we take it as a compliment if you ask . |
| 7 | It came free and he threw it at me . |
| 8 | ‘ But all the people who took part were very , very brave and I have nothing but admiration for them all . |
| 9 | We use them as rubber and you hold them in your arms , alright ? |
| 10 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 11 | Prior to 1979 , most local authorities were Conservative-controlled and they considered themselves to be local authorities , not Governments . |
| 12 | Because one of the typewriters is broken and she blamed it on me . |
| 13 | Their glasses were empty and he took them to the bar for a refill . |
| 14 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 15 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 16 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 17 | It sounded ridiculously lame and she cursed herself for sounding so weak and ineffectual , but miraculously he seemed not to notice . |
| 18 | It 's a screen about this big right and you put it on your dashboard and plug it in to your cigarette lighter and er it 's like a control centre and if there 's been a crash |
| 19 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
| 20 | It 's very friendly And it followed us into the lane several times and then we 'd chase it back |
| 21 | I I I think if we produce twe say twenty odd and we circulated them through the sections . |
| 22 | The gesture was both intimate and impersonal and it reminded her of Maggie 's physical friendship that never grew into love . |
| 23 | Yet for a long time the Cult of Pleasure was respectable and none connected it with the hidden worship of Chaos . |
| 24 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 25 | Apparently they use to keep a little thing alive and they took it on the boat coming home |
| 26 | ‘ My dad is very tall and he puts lots of gel on his hair sometimes because he thinks it looks nice . |
| 27 | I had a flat tape recorder with a directional mic and I stuck it on the table and above me was a speaker through which all this muzak was coming out . |
| 28 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 29 | Cantona , who flew to Paris for the top-rated chat show Sacree Soiree after his United debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , added : ‘ I am fit and I enjoyed myself in the opener against Benfica . |
| 30 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |