Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One member of my crew was hit between the legs and although he got ashore and was able to walk he was a very worried man until the M.O . |
| 2 | She ironed the covers and as she sat sewing them up round the cushions she felt her energy ebb and realised she was very chilly , and oh how the flesh above her knees ached ! |
| 3 | Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . " |
| 4 | The only way we can actually go about it is that if we use these cramps and if you remember me telling you , or I do hint every now and then , make sure you keep the cramps straight parallel to the rails , and that 's the reason why because it 'll fall straight , now if something 's in twist and we want to bring it back again , what you do is if it 's in twist that way , you put the cramp as I 've done these slightly up |
| 5 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 6 | We hardly saw the kids and when we did , we were nasty-tempered with them and each other . |
| 7 | They are not mind readers and unless you explain , in some detail , what you are trying to achieve with a particular photograph they will not be able to do their best work . |
| 8 | Our wind playing , however , is an incredibly high standard and what we have got in our orchestras are brilliant sight readers and if you want a sort of erm an orchestra to learn something then an English orchestra will take , I do n't know , a quarter of the time that any other Continental orchestra will take . |
| 9 | This baby has gone into one of his frenetic football sessions and if I move it 'll set him off again ! ’ |
| 10 | I think er what the county council 's position is in terms of the statement he 's just read out it is that er the county council strategic framework , the structure plan alteration number three , the high fly policy which we discussed yesterday , is an attempt to address the needs of the districts and if we 've got this right then sufficient land should be identified or allocated to the districts within Policy I five . |
| 11 | ‘ What people are concerned about is that , if they train certifieds or AATs , they do n't have to cope with the bureaucracy , they do n't have to be formal training offices and so they do n't have to be quite so concerned that they have to provide the right sort of additional courses for people to attend to back up their exams . |
| 12 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 13 | So instead of ringing each other up on the telephone we spoke to each other over the C.B. as you do n't have to pay each time you speak as when you speak on a C.B. your words travel with Radio waves and when you speak on a telephone your words travel down wires . |
| 14 | They ride the waves and if they fall off , they get back on . |
| 15 | It 's different if the wind 's offshore because then it can be deceptively close into the shore and further out bigger waves and if you get into trouble you 're lost out to sea . |
| 16 | I do n't care how much snout , cash or force you use , my ring-piece is out of fucking bounds and if you try anything I 'll cut your heart out . ’ |
| 17 | There were tears in her eyes and when they went through to the kitchen she hugged and kissed them both . |
| 18 | She looked at Margaret with a question in her eyes and when she nodded felt a burst of happiness like she had never felt before . |
| 19 | I went back to bathe my eyes and when I returned I could not see them . ’ |
| 20 | Our unwound watches lay in our rucksacks and when they stopped we followed the pattern of night and day instead . |
| 21 | Environmental Health Officers did n't test the water themselves but asked pool operators if they were aware of the Department of the Environmental guidelines and whether they monitored the water . |
| 22 | Awarded an OBE the year after captaining England 's World Cup winning side , he won 108 international caps and since he gave up playing has been involved in football management and various business ventures . |
| 23 | He tells me you asked for advice because of tantrums and that you agreed to him asking me to call on you … ’ . |
| 24 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 25 | One secondary sense of neutrality regards persons as neutral if they can affect the fortunes of the parties and if they affect the fortunes of all the parties equally regardless of their reasons for so doing . |
| 26 | But his enemies believed that the sickness was just another of his delaying tactics and so they renewed the war as soon as the truce expired . |
| 27 | Peskibe continues to thrive , operational profits there are now well over a million a week and I think it 's worth remembering that one subscriber may have three subscriptions say to two movie channels and one sports channels and if you count these individually , it means that we now have four point nine million subscriptions achieved during the second worst recession , recession this century . |
| 28 | and the cars stop , he 'll even go over to one of the cars and if they 've got their window open and just er say can you give me , have you got ten P for me ? |
| 29 | But perhaps I give that impression because I have strong views on certain subjects and because I do n't go in for the social whirl , for fast cars and fast women . ’ |
| 30 | It s vital that the school has an agreed policy on equal opportunities and that it carries the wholehearted support of both governors and staff . |