Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things begin to crack ; sometimes the cracks become gaps and then we can open them up to make spaces full of creative possibility , but sometimes the cracks become fissures and everything collapses and we have to scratch around in the rubble looking for bits of junk that we can cobble together into something ripe with meaning . |
| 2 | She brought her knee up between his legs and he gasped and doubled over , pushing her away from him . |
| 3 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 4 | Then I think the erm the chairs , Malcolm phoned erm was it the homeless , was it Shelter , one of those organizations and they came and picked them up . |
| 5 | Mick , the National Officer has been er , the link between these organizations and I hope that the er , Professional erm , Boxers ' Association will give some credit to the G M B in erm , establishing themselves and we hope , as an organization , that in the future that they can be successful and we can be sure they will be because they 've not only got the likes of Barry but they 've got many other , prominent er , boxers who will , I 'm sure , establish erm , the Association in a very er , positive fashion . |
| 6 | He made toys that parodied her innocent amusements and those of her brothers and she trembled when he raised his leonine voice . |
| 7 | of fruit , vegetables and animals and you know and er |
| 8 | The scales fell from his eyes and he saw that over many long years of prehistory , all trackways were in straight lines marked out by experts on a sighting system . |
| 9 | She jabbed two fingers into his eyes and he screamed and rolled off her , trying to rise to his feet , blinded by her attack . |
| 10 | For a brief moment there was recognition in his eyes and he reached for he hand , pulling back before the contact was made . |
| 11 | ‘ There is a modicum of gentleness in your eyes and I presume that you are young enough to feel compassion . |
| 12 | He closed his eyes and she saw that the movement of his chest had stopped . |
| 13 | The question was casual but Rachel thought she detected a flicker of interest in Louise 's blue eyes and she wondered if the stories about herself and David had reached the welfare office yet or whether she was simply becoming paranoid where he was concerned . |
| 14 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |
| 15 | Erm and the meeting felt that it asks it asks for for views from local parties and we felt that the amount of money |
| 16 | He 's on reserves and they say that we already have more than our quota per pupil than most other places . ’ |
| 17 | However , Executive Agencies are in some cases becoming trading funds and it appears that many more will become so in the future ) . |
| 18 | But what I did was , right before we started recording , I purchased a 1969 all-original Marshall 100 watt stack with the original speakers and we used that for most of the record for the rhythm tracks . |
| 19 | France and Italy have had respectively about two centuries and one to erect and modify their national systems . |
| 20 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 21 | I anticipate that in 1991 we will re-visit most of these subjects and I expect that we will address several others such as skills shortages , innovation policy and education policy proposals . |
| 22 | I was up , and I went to the shops and I came and there 's a wee boy which used to live in the flats , and he says hello Nelly . |
| 23 | Well quite a lot , we we went out with them for a meal last night erm we had an interpreter who who was the only one that could speak English but it was it was well worth the evening , it did a lot for relationships and I think that there should be more of this in football , that off the field people should get to know each other a lot better and we felt at the end of the evening that it had been well worthwhile . |
| 24 | The things that endure and that matter , I am convinced , are the human relationships and I think as I represent the , the group here today I , I am joined by six other people with associations with the group . |
| 25 | ‘ That will depend on my performances and I hope that as long as my form for Liverpool improves I will be knocking on the door . |
| 26 | If there 's a positive relationship okay I d I mean that was just recapping something I said before so if you got it you 've probably got it down twice now Okay , if you knew that there was a positive relationship between two variables and we said that their score on one of the variables was high then we would expect , although not necessarily , because w it 's not true in every case but it i there 's a general trend , we would expect that their score on the other variable would also be high . |
| 27 | Goldberg and Lewis sampled very young babies between 6 and 13 months and they observed that mothers of female babies were more protective of them , keeping them close to their side , cuddling them a lot and that the babies liked to play quietly with soft toys and absorbing tasks . |
| 28 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 29 | He promised luxury homes and he believes that to keep faith , that 's what he must provide . |
| 30 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |