Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , now , ’ Miss Louise called back sharply , ‘ mind your manners and let them in . ’ |
| 2 | They had such nice manners and treated me like one of their own , so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones . |
| 3 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 4 | The ensuing exchange over the months turned the whole cast of Balzac 's Comédie Humaine into Katherine 's familiars and gave her an awareness of greed and ambition , love and betrayal far beyond her years . |
| 5 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
| 6 | This practical 2-day course highlights the risks and provides you with the knowledge to contain them . |
| 7 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 8 | They form a component of some social stratification systems simply because members of those systems select certain characteristics and evaluate them in a particular way . |
| 9 | Some people buy rare or difficult to keep animals as pets and donate them to zoos . |
| 10 | Keith has a lot of talent and I think David used to go to him and Keith would rearrange the songs and make them sound good with his bass lines . |
| 11 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 12 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 13 | And I shall write my songs and carry them in a pack and I shall recite them to the people , and sing them too , and I shall tell stories , and the little children shall gather around me , the while himself is in the temple . ’ |
| 14 | Consequently most of it is scored for orchestral accompaniment : to extract the songs and perform them with piano , either in a performance-art format , as does Angelina Réaux , or as a Liederabend like Carole Farley , is to present a one-dimensional aspect of the music and an ultimate disservice to the composer . |
| 15 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 16 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 17 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 18 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 19 | It is the policy of the Government to encourage our exporters and to congratulate them . |
| 20 | ‘ Hang 'em , burn 'em , torture 'em , throw 'em to the wolves , cut off their ears and nail 'em to the notice board , ’ shouted a particularly excited worshipper . |
| 21 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 22 | It 's back — Oz Clarke 's Wine Guide 1993 returns for its ninth year with a prediction : that Australian winemakers who know ‘ how to take a pile of sows ’ ears and turn them into silk purses ’ are taking over from the vineyards of Europe . |
| 23 | ‘ I had daft wee notions about setting up a mobile massage unit going round theatres at matinees getting people 's shoulders out of their ears and calling it Feels on Wheels , ’ said the Glasgow-born actress . |
| 24 | ‘ I had daft wee notions about setting up a mobile massage unit going round theatres at matinees getting people 's shoulders out of their ears and calling it Feels on Wheels , ’ said the Glasgow-born actress . |
| 25 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 26 | through my ears and gives me a headache |
| 27 | My mind 's got so flexible I could pull it out of my ears and tie it under my chin ! ’ snapped Gurder . |
| 28 | Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps . |
| 29 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 30 | To get more foxes and to get them distributed more evenly over the country , gorse covers and spinneys were started by hunting landlords in well-chosen spots . |