Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wary look came into Johnny 's eyes and he gave her a quick glance of alarm . |
| 2 | At only 18 , Dundas will be seeing things through young and excited eyes and I wish him the best . |
| 3 | ‘ The social worker at the hospital — she was marvellous — she put us in touch with a charity that keeps a list of all these types of Homes and she sent us a list and this one was more or less on our doorstep . |
| 4 | We got erm , got erm she bought me some Maltesers and she bought me a chocolate orange as well . |
| 5 | Of course , all theatrical activities came to an abrupt halt ; but Guthrie was not prepared to accept what seemed like being the total demise of Sadler 's Wells Opera , and proposed sending a small touring group of the company round the provinces and he offered me a small contract . |
| 6 | Christina climbed the pool steps and he handed her a towel . |
| 7 | the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir |
| 8 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 9 | Mr Hobbs gave her back her teeth and she shot me a desperate little smile . |
| 10 | ‘ It was interesting to take on these different values and it gave us a new perspective . ’ |
| 11 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 12 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 13 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |
| 14 | He 's worked on the site for 46 years and he knows what a heritage museum would mean to the town . |
| 15 | Yeah under question things and they give you the answers in blue . |
| 16 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |
| 17 | I signed a lot of the players and I train them every day . ’ |
| 18 | And on the Monday morning my dad rang the doctors and he sent her a prescription and on the Thursday he had to call him out . |
| 19 | Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 20 | I was put on the road with Lynyrd Skynyrd when they thought I was getting too big for my DMs , but they were real wild men and I liked them a lot and we got on very well . ’ |
| 21 | She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was . |
| 22 | It is fine for many of us , given the privileged lives that we lead ; it is hell for many of our citizens and we owe them a great deal more urgency than is provided by this useful but inadequate measure . |
| 23 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 24 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 25 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 26 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 27 | In special circumstances we 'll cover some expenses and we pay them a token fee , which a lot of guests donate to charity . |