Example sentences of "and [adv] [pers pn] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the 1980s environmental issues rose to the top of the agenda and suddenly we were all ‘ greens ’ as attention was directed , towards environmental issues . |
| 2 | They drank coffee happily , Conrad and Larry had a brandy , Philippa flirted with John to tease Larry before leaving , then they ordered their taxis and suddenly they were all , even Conrad , devastatingly , magically , irreversibly , gone . |
| 3 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 4 | Swansea hit back with an equaliser from Colin West and so it is all back to the Manor for the replay a week on Tuesday . |
| 5 | We we tried to do as much as we could we drove from erm Colorado right the way round California up through Utah and stuff and so it is some parts of the desert are very boring . |
| 6 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
| 7 | Are n't you going to claim that the spider must have been disturbed when the undergrowth was cleared and so it was all my fault ? ’ |
| 8 | And so it was that , just after five on Friday evening , a large black Bentley , with not a sign of a dent anywhere , drew up outside Lisa 's little terraced cottage and waited while she darted into Josey 's to collect her daughter , then into her own house to pick up their luggage . |
| 9 | And so it was that , four months later , she was sitting in the surgery with Emma , waiting their turn to see Doctor Rice . |
| 10 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 11 | It was around Easter , and perhaps it was this that led him to wax theological as we bounced across the heather and gorse . |
| 12 | And I come on and basically they 're all gon na shout hello . |
| 13 | ‘ The rack was built by Pete Cornish , and basically it 's all the effects Bryan has liked over the years , but with switches so there are no actual pedals on it . |
| 14 | Just a reminder of that competition question , we have er several videos to be won this evening , the first one is er the History of Sport , Primitive Instincts is its subtitle and basically it 's all about thumping people and that sort of thing . |
| 15 | It 's very interesting that , that you , you mention that , as most people do n't yet got their copy of the date Yellow Pages , it was an away from home and I , I was n't , and it was in fact in today 's Yellow Pages an article by David Mason on Richard Lacey 's new book which he 's , seems to be selling at twelve ninety-nine a copy , which , which he says makes hardly any mention of the A B Os , and there 's a comment here from Linda Allen , Undersecretary and basically it 's all very negative , we do n't like this and we do n't like that . |
| 16 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 17 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 18 | It looked like something indescribable , but I must admit it smelt and tasted good , and anyway we were all starving and would have eaten a horse . |
| 19 | And anyway it 's this bas er ba baseball player and he does n't hit the ball you see , which ma does n't make him famous so he finds this person and he makes him go back and he does hit the ball and becomes really famous and that special person 's Michael Caine , it looked quite good . |
| 20 | the way he spoke , maybe that his part and not he was that , think he 's a took over the part if you know what I mean ? |
| 21 | And thus it was that glamour had arrived for our heroine . |
| 22 | Presently the Watling Street Guard came over the hill to the strains of ‘ Viva España ’ and soon we were all singing away . |
| 23 | We arrived at a Roman Catholic church where kind ladies gave us food and blankets , and soon we were all cosily asleep on the hard church floor . |
| 24 | Other beetles joined the first , and soon they were all crawling round the pebble in circles . |
| 25 | The sixty-fifth floor rose and soon they were all on the sixty-sixth . |
| 26 | The other creatures also began to fly , and soon they were all airborne . |
| 27 | He laughed and kissed her again , and somehow it was another hour before the last of the doughnuts and her third cup of tea were consumed and he decreed that the colour had returned to her cheeks and they could leave . |
| 28 | there was a lot of trouble early on this term when people could n't find stage boards , and like they were all missing and it turns out that they 're like the |
| 29 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 30 | I 've nothing against aeroplanes landing on stage , but there should be a place for personal musicals , and frankly they 're all I know how to write . |