Example sentences of "and [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That skimp cost me a learned pig of prodigious memory , two weeks in Benidorm with a beautician called Tracey , a life peerage and my entire collection of Marc Bolan records . ’ |
| 2 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 3 | I detailed my education , A Level results , the particulars of my brothers and sisters , everything that I had done while in the Territorial Army and my minimal brush with the law . |
| 4 | Some day John , you , me and my once-blonde head of hair are destined to meet … |
| 5 | My own case at this point was by no means typical of the average or a product of the time — some 12 years service , and my five years as an NCO pilot coming to an end . |
| 6 | The time factor was obviously the most urgent one and my five months in England were used to forward the plans for operating the Department when once it got back to Burma . |
| 7 | Hours later , resting myself and my battered legs in a shallow cave on a hillside , I returned to something like my senses . |
| 8 | In 1976 with the Tories gaining votes I left my friends , my lover , my job and my political life in Ireland . |
| 9 | I arrived at work on the Monday and was handed a cheque and my personal belongings at the desk in the foyer and was then escorted out by Security . |
| 10 | I wish to place on record my party 's stance and my personal stance on the reprocessing of nuclear material at Dounreay . |
| 11 | Old Saul was the culprit , Old Saul had gone down in our history and my personal mythology as the Castraitor , but thanks to the little creatures who flew the creek I had him in my power now . |
| 12 | Thanks to you for your hard work in 1992 and my best wishes to you and your families in 1993 . |
| 13 | Ards were the form side when the Cup kicked off in January and my dark horses for the final . |
| 14 | I did not then know any literary people , and my first contact with Ivy ( at one remove ) was when Spencer Curtis-Brown ( later to become literary executor of Elizabeth Bowen and Somerset Maugham ) accepted the agency of my first novel late in 1937 . |
| 15 | Nancy did n't appear through the mist , and my first sight of her was nothing like so romantic . |
| 16 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 17 | As I 've mentioned/bragged/gloated previously I know two of the leeds youth team who won the Youth FA Cup final against the scum earlier this year at ellamd rd ( And my first venture into Mt . |
| 18 | I tried opium , and my first experience with anything really hard , using it intravenously , was when I used Omnopon which was from a lifeboat , y'know , from the life-saving equipment on a lifeboat . |
| 19 | My family were too poor ever to have a holiday together , and my first glimpse of the sea was on a choir outing shortly after my joining . |
| 20 | I do want you to know how clearly I understand my deep obligation to you for giving me my first insight into the real problem we were facing and my first understanding of the nature of clinical research ’ . |
| 21 | It was my first taste of big-time athletics , and my first visit to Gateshead . |
| 22 | It was my first time in California and my first visit to a swank house . |
| 23 | The only thing miraculous about my hypothetical story is the coincidence between my being struck by lightning and my verbal invocation of the disaster . |
| 24 | For the rest of the match he proceeded to annoy me and my fellow spectators by positioning himself right between us and the action . |
| 25 | My arrival and my anticipated help with the paperwork have been fortuitous . |
| 26 | ‘ And my unscheduled departure from the Simonova ? ’ |
| 27 | THE WAITER in the Calypso bar at Chania carries a smiling blond baby on one hip , and my Cretan breakfast in one hand . |
| 28 | ’ ( The word ‘ alone ’ in this sentence is best glossed as : ‘ alone except for my parents , my sister , the servants , our dog , Caroline 's goat , and my regular visits from Alfred le Poittevin ’ . ) |
| 29 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |
| 30 | With bands like Nirvana , the Pixies and My Bloody Valentine beyond reproach from the music press and the record-buying public there has never been a better time to play guitars with manic fervour . |