Example sentences of "and [pers pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yours is coming Bec . |
| 2 | Naturally , it is almost duty to bring with bad news a panacea , and his is bottled as ‘ knowhow ’ . |
| 3 | The Town Hall will be closed for refurbishment after Christmas and she is moving out with her staff to offices in St George 's Hall . |
| 4 | Violet Kray is the heroine of the film , and she is played by Billie Whitelaw with a warmth which is completely credible and endearing . |
| 5 | Cuddling Flossie close , Robert said : ‘ I 'm feeding her a little bit at a time and she is looking much better already . ’ |
| 6 | And she is using the 20th-Century surgeon 's art to turn herself into a living version of classical beauties painted by the Old Masters , from Greek goddesses to the Mona Lisa . |
| 7 | ‘ She does n't like me , and she is using the rules of the game as an excuse for not speaking . |
| 8 | Her realm is the site of the principal shrine of the Earth Mother and she is regarded as the spiritual leader of the whole Elf realm . |
| 9 | The elders are in position behind some bushes , and she is singing a sweet romantic song of youth and yearning . ’ |
| 10 | Powys already receives a good proportion of overseas visitors , and she is thinking of adding basic foreign language courses . |
| 11 | And she is bringing up her own children in the same way . |
| 12 | As Sherman 's work had demonstrated — and she is joined by the legion of other women artists who also seek to assert their right to make use of their naked figures in their work — this in an obstinately difficult strategy to adopt where the female body is concerned . |
| 13 | TV personality , Anneka Rice , helped launch the range by receiving a cheque on WWF 's behalf , and she is pictured wearing the purple fleece and silk jumpsuit . |
| 14 | Do n't , on any account , go for a heavy-handed male impersonation here — Rosalind is an intelligent woman , with a sense of humour , and she is enjoying herself responding to Phoebe 's rather obvious games . |
| 15 | This has been brought by Joan Weiss , niece and heir of Armand Hammer 's wife , Frances , and she is laying claim to a large share of the collection . |
| 16 | One glance — and she is grown , |
| 17 | His fears eventually prove unfounded and she is reinstated , but not before the gym is ablaze . |
| 18 | One sigh — and she is gone . |
| 19 | And she is gone . |
| 20 | There is some television and she is trying to learn how to use computers , which seems to cheer her . |
| 21 | Catherine Dalton is the first to be appointed and she is based in Cleveland Health Centre , Middlesbrough . |
| 22 | Queen Victoria thinks that Grace Darling is one of the finest young women in this country , and she is writing to thank her . |
| 23 | She is a historian , or more properly a micro-historian , and she is writing a history of our hillside — the road I walk up from the station and the various lanes and alleyways that open off it . |
| 24 | Stories , and the whole collection , circle around the same events , reapproaching and repeating them until we see them whole and she is healed of them : the ‘ trying times ’ of Pakistan 's civil war , the deaths of her mother and best-loved sister . |
| 25 | They are fascinated by it and she is picking up French fast , compensating for five months out of school . |
| 26 | In this movie she adopts a coldly dismissive tone with men — her lovers and les flics — which is supposed to be chic , and she is placed rather artificially in perfectly arranged and photographed surroundings . |
| 27 | But I have told her all the stories and rhymes I know and she is getting bored . |
| 28 | And she is getting to know her five-year-old sister Eloise at home in Blackpool , Lancs . |
| 29 | The chiefs renege on the deal and she is stabbed as she tries to entice Odoff herself . |
| 30 | Nicola from Chartbury in Oxfordshire is very worried about her younger son , and she is hoping that some of you may be able to help . |