Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 2 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 3 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 4 | I 'm sure she enjoyed it and that it gave her a purpose in life . |
| 5 | He told her that he was well and that he missed her a lot . |
| 6 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 7 | on and that way you can find out who the candidates are , and once we know who the candidates are we can start going out and seeing if they have public meetings or whatever . |
| 8 | And if one identified someone the other had let through , the culprit was doomed . |
| 9 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 10 | And if we make it a decent team — people who are good at — at swimming and riding and all … ’ |
| 11 | Yes , that 's right , I mean it 's that most of you , most of you can , most of you can arrive at work in the morning and if somebody says what the traffic 's like you would n't know , because you do n't know how you got there . |
| 12 | He 'd loved her and left her once , and if she gave him a chance he 'd do it again . |
| 13 | And if it takes you a matter of seconds , you really need to address your security . |
| 14 | " And if I give you the job , " Fairfax went on , " how soon will you begin ? " |
| 15 | He treats his actors as equals , and if he ask you a question , it 's because he wants an answer — not because he 's testing you . ’ |
| 16 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 17 | A great family such as the Milettis is like a sleeping bear : it may look massively apathetic and unimpressionable but each hair of its pelt is wired straight into the creature 's brain , and if you twitch it the wrong way the thing will flex its tendons and turn on you , unzipping its claws . |
| 18 | And if you show it the sweep of a gravel drive framed by cypresses and a manicured lawn , it will usher you elegantly to the ball . |
| 19 | And if you give somebody a pound coin they think your giving you two P . |
| 20 | If you increase the amount of reward the rats run faster than rats that have always received the large reward and if you decrease it the reverse happens ; the rats run more slowly than those that have always had the small reward . |
| 21 | signed up and until they give us a firm this is it |
| 22 | And so it goes on and on and until somebody gives them a kick up the backside they 'll continue like that forever and ever amen and a day ! |
| 23 | I thought Sharan a fish tank and cos I bought her a radio cassette for Christmas and she said if I wan na listen to tapes I 'll use that . |
| 24 | Because er while I 've had wedding cake from people and and they give you a little bit and I 've said to you have n't I , well I would n't have bothered giving anybody this . |
| 25 | But now British Rail has told her it ca n't find room for her 20-inch wheelchair , and unless she finds herself a smaller one she 'll have to make alternative arrangements . |
| 26 | She says the university wishes to give her a degree , both because she 's a graduate of the univesity — she was at St. Hugh 's — and because we regard her a as a world leader of distinction , and of course a world peace prize winner . |
| 27 | And because I owe you a meal from a couple of nights back . ’ |
| 28 | And since I know what the proposition means , I must know each constituent of it . |
| 29 | Murder : he remembered the first chilling thrill of the word in the school playground , when it was still something to be excited about and before he knew who the victim was , or the chief suspect . |
| 30 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |