Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid a crescendo of passion I forced open your legs and you joyously proclaimed , ‘ Thank you , thank you , I could never do the splits before . ’ |
| 2 | The heavily sodden nappy slipped down her legs and she just stepped out of it , much to the amusement of the assembled people . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've played for Utah Jazz against the very best in America — including Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan — in front of 40,000 fans and I only hope I put that experience to good use . |
| 4 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 5 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 6 | Johnny 's silky touches and ball playing skills , nurtured by the great Arthur Rowe , drew huge admiration from Palace fans and he inevitably became a target for the bigger clubs , but he was still with the Palace when he gained his first full England International cap ( against Northern Ireland at Wembley on 22 November 1961 ) and Palace 's first such honour in thirty-eight years . |
| 7 | There was no colour bar , because normal rules are applied for the selection of recruits and it just happens that black and Asian people fall the tests . |
| 8 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 9 | and they , that was when they were kids and they still remember it |
| 10 | I have duly noted what you have said in your second and third paragraphs and I fully appreciate what you are saying , stop . |
| 11 | The group meets four times a week ; in addition we have individual counselling sessions and we also meet with couples . |
| 12 | She told her brothers and they too put their faces into the soft sealskin . |
| 13 | They were attractive-looking animals and they often allowed us to get quite close . |
| 14 | Wrath entered his eyes and he hastily shut the door . |
| 15 | The silver halo dazzled his eyes and he almost lost his grip . |
| 16 | I put my hands over my eyes and I just cried . |
| 17 | Finally Carrie said guiltily , ‘ Here we are , Julie , going on about all our worries and you never say a word about yours . ’ |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman and I have engaged in lengthy discussions about the problems faced by Belfast taxi drivers and I fully appreciate their fears and concerns . |
| 19 | However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour . |
| 20 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 21 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 22 | Most low attainers lack knowledge of the relationship between metric units and they also have problems with decimals . |
| 23 | The Peugeot/Citroen diesels , sharing similar engines , are generally regarded as the pick of the bunch for refined performance in the smaller cars and they now have two fine contenders in the big car sector — the Citroen XM and the Peugeot 605 . |
| 24 | This , in effect , meant that the Sunnis were their principal antagonists and they thus proceeded to capitalise on the good will of the Christians , their oldest friends , by creating a new state which stripped Tyre , Sidon , Tripoli , the Bekaa Valley and Beirut itself district ) of Mount Lebanon , the very backbone of Maronite Christianity . |
| 25 | Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar . |
| 26 | Industry observers say the launch will disrupt the rather cosy relationship between the big three — Cadbury , Mars and Rowntree — whereby each has dominance of certain sectors and they largely avoid treading on each other 's commercial toes . |
| 27 | Dairy products make up over 20 per cent of our calories and they also provide over 20 per cent of our protein intake and much of our calcium . |
| 28 | This does not fit , however , with the reef limestones and it certainly does not fit with the other facies that show the same persistence . |
| 29 | The change brought some unexpected experiences and challenges , but all my years as a Head were full of interest and happy working relationships and I thoroughly enjoyed my career , a memorable and refreshing interlude in it being the Centenary summer term back at Somerville as a Schoolmistress Fellow . |
| 30 | Matthew Pinsent , the Boat Club President , says that when the alarm goes off , it 's hard to get up , but you know that over in Cambridge they are already up and lifting weights and something just kicks you into action . |