Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , in truth , the finest holiday I 've ever spent on a building-site and I may never look a sardine in the gill again . |
| 2 | And I 'll also let a spider into your room . |
| 3 | Why do n't you hop up on to the examination couch and I 'll just take a quick listen to baby 's heart and take your blood pressure , then afterwards I 'm sure Sister will be only too happy to show you around our labour ward and let you take a look at the facilities we have available . |
| 4 | And I 'll just put a note in . |
| 5 | ‘ They wo n't see any less of me and I 'll always have a key to the house , ’ he said . |
| 6 | And I 'll now call a number of the officers to explain their case of their own . |
| 7 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 8 | I have a feeling a lazy-cow me would welcome it , would forget what I once wanted to do , and I would just become a Great Female Cabbage . |
| 9 | Lil and I would always give a home to John 's wife and child . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It will certainly be the aim to go to Cheltenham again , and I would hopefully take a similar path . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm staying at Dalian Atkinson 's house tonight and I might just have a little drink or two — hopefully he will be paying . |
| 12 | The Minister of State , Welsh Office ( Mr. Wyn Roberts ) : With permission , Mr. Speaker , I shall circulate the information in the Official Report and I shall also place a copy in the Library . |
| 13 | I would n't be seen dead in a navy suit and I 'd rather give a peck on the cheek than a mock-male handshake . |
| 14 | So I said I did n't want to deal through somebody who was n't really gon na be fighting in our corner , and I 'd rather put a paper to their committee an and tell them where the problems were , and ask how they were gon na get round them . |
| 15 | But like , I could say to you , you know ah , you know , how are yo , you know , and I 'd probably make a joke out of it ! |
| 16 | I think erm what , what we , what I 'd really like to do is if I could get in touch with him and give him the chance to make up his own mind er then he could decide whether or not he would like to have a chat with me and I 'd just run a few ideas by him , just as you 've done , without any pressure er and he can make his own decisions . |
| 17 | He 'd come to us with numbers he wanted to get off and I 'd just play a chord on the guitar and he 'd write a number round it . |
| 18 | ‘ And I 'd always ask a cabbie , ’ he said , climbing into the back seat . |
| 19 | ‘ The time has come for me to get it sorted out — and I 'd happily take a year out if it meant I 'd have a few more years later on . |
| 20 | The room was thick with smoke and I could just see a cot , but it was empty . |
| 21 | So this song sort of sprang to mind and I could hear it as I wanted it to be and I could also hear a few little modifications that would suit their purposes , too . |
| 22 | From there I could see the other islands , and I could also see a boat , far out to sea . |
| 23 | And I could occasionally wear a dress instead of paint-stained jeans . ’ |
| 24 | We 're here to have your famous rum punch , and I could definitely use a portion of that fantastic coconut ice-cream , if there 's any left ? ’ |
| 25 | Before you and I can ever point a finger to Pilate , what have you done , what have I done with Jesus that is called Christ ? |
| 26 | My hair is a very light brown/dark blonde colour and I can never find a permanent colour that covers evenly and naturally . |
| 27 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 28 | For while he goes to some lengths to avoid formulating a question which presupposes the distinction between subject and object , he is frankly concerned to provide an answer ( and hence a question ) which will be compatible with the claim that social changes are overdetermined by the complex whole , and which will therefore embody a particular view of the production of knowledge . |
| 29 | After surveying the jungle of cane , raffia and cardboard which rioted gloriously together , and which could well offer a dozen comfortable homes to abundant mice families , Miss Fogerty firmly shut the door and relocked it . |
| 30 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |