Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the workload is increasing in 1991 , the five schemes one in each borough and one at Teesside Combined Court received more than 14,000 referrals from Cleveland Police . |
| 2 | One of its most distinguished distinctive characteristics is the size of site which we know from experience which the county Harrogate Borough and ourselves at least have already here can be the order of magnitude of fifty hectares . |
| 3 | Stephanie , a mere stripling of 50 , thought at first she was n't old enough for her part , but two hours of make-up , a wig and plenty of padding soon solved that problem . |
| 4 | The result is that once those who are unable to purchase have negotiated their way through the labyrinthine and highly variable eligibility rules to achieve a place on a council housing waiting list , they join a queue which is growing at a faster rate than addition to the council housing stock and which in some cases even exceeds the total number of families housed by the district council . |
| 5 | So the best source from which to obtain your ferrets has to be someone deeply committed to the animals , someone who keeps his own working and breeding stock and who from time to time may have a surplus . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
| 7 | Do n't even ask about the freak-out in Fés or the spring break in Chicago ( euphemistically remembered by my then girlfriend and me as ‘ the Psycho-drama Nightmare ’ ) . |
| 8 | Many congratulations to your girlfriend and yourself on the birth of your daughter . |
| 9 | " I thought it was a basically good shape but added features like the pond and lots of pots , " she says . |
| 10 | Bakery and plenty of shops and tavernas . |
| 11 | Inside our home we have a lot of furniture , we have four rooms , one in the bathroom , one in the bedroom and one in the lounge and one in the kitchen |
| 12 | Inside our home we have a lot of furniture we have four rooms and one in the bathroom , one in the bedroom and one in and one in the lounge and one in the kitchen here |
| 13 | The Misses Wynne sent two other ladies , rather considerably older than themselves , with a heavy recommendation and they in turn sent a widow and her daughter . |
| 14 | You and I , presented with loads of dosh and plenty of places to live in , would spend our time whooping it up . |
| 15 | Arithmetic and logical operations are now performed between operands both of which are in accumulators , or one in an accumulator and one in a store location . |
| 16 | After the drama of Pye 's water wall , this is all a bitter disappointment and something of a disgrace . |
| 17 | The connection between politics and business — and by business we mean the entire framework of peaceful commerce upon which the prosperity of this country depends — appears to be ignored , or , at least , treated with indifference and something like contempt . |
| 18 | So why all this information about the club and nothing about judo ? |
| 19 | I was taken down to Holloway by car , with me on the back seat and her on one side and a male officer on the other side . |
| 20 | Wexford did n't take the vacant seat and something in his expression must have told Cullam he wanted privacy , for he said to his wife , ‘ Ca n't you get them kids out of here ? ’ |
| 21 | By contrast , my father was very much the soldier and something of a mystery . |
| 22 | Leeson , by nature taciturn , had told her very little about the original photograph and nothing at all about the research he and the Bristol archivist had done on it . |
| 23 | Yes just before we leave however the question of what occur in my mind how you 're going to get from the present position in what appears to be a cost plus basis as we go along to a fixed cost basis and presumably the programme and I in in , are running as it were , are running effectively on the cost plus basis |
| 24 | He was aware of his jumper being pulled up and then felt the pullover against the back of his neck and something around the front . |
| 25 | This philosophy produced strong and excellent aeroplanes so long as one was quite sure which members were in tension and which in compression , for , though a strut could at a pinch take tension , a wire could not take compression . |
| 26 | Then he dragged them out into the cockpit , making one corner fast to the main sheet winch on the cabin roof and one to the starboard jib winch . |
| 27 | We invited Corpus Christi to tea and they in turn invited us to a sumptuous Sunday brunch in their garden overlooking Christ Church meadow . |
| 28 | After tea and lots of talking , I rang my Mum , singing the praises of epidurals . |
| 29 | It probably evolved because if you do computer simulations erm you find out that one of the stable equilibria to which er differing or same size sex cells leads is one with a very large cell and one with a very small cell . |
| 30 | The Government treat Scotland as an afterthought and something to be tacked on at the end when the serious business has already been dealt with . |