Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith yelled , and as fury which she just could not contain spiralled out of control , her right hand arced through the air , and even as she hit him with all her strength , she was still yelling , ‘ Since it seems to be taking so long to sink in , you can bank on it — whoever pays my mortgage , you 're far , far at the back of the queue ! ’ |
| 2 | Banks have a dual role , as agents for their customers who buy and sell foreign exchange , and as dealers themselves in foreign exchange . |
| 3 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 4 | The need to fill these vacancies quickly means that an agency is preferred to advertising and search , and in addition such a strategy avoids the administrative burden of taking persons on and off payroll whose stay will be limited . |
| 5 | Among the latter are to be counted the dynamics of a world economy which produce instabilities and difficulties within states and between states which outreach the control of any single ‘ centre ’ ; the rapid growth of transnational links which have stimulated new forms of collective decision-making involving states , intergovernmental organisations and an array of international pressure groups ; the build-up of military arms and the general means of warfare as a ‘ stable feature ’ of the contemporary political world . |
| 6 | Yeah , she 'd started to need Dionne , pushed it aside since they were friends , and between friends you could take it for granted , since it was . |
| 7 | On several subsequent Manhattan visits I met Tom again and between visits we exchanged letters and limericks . |
| 8 | Such differences ( and we have sketched them only very briefly here ) , are entirely right and proper within and between disciplines which are alive with debate and curiosity about the aspects of the world they have as this domain of inquiry . |
| 9 | comparison of subjects within groups and between groups I thought that 's |
| 10 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 11 | ‘ Difference ’ is also an object of frequent feminist debate about the nature of differences between women and men , and of differences between women and between men which interact with these gender-related patterns ( Barrett 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Moreover , the human body is not simply a bag of cells ; no one knows how years of microgravity would affect the complex interaction between cells in an organ and between organs themselves . |
| 13 | In considering patterns of morbidity both within and between populations it is usual to distinguish between acute and chronic health problems . |
| 14 | discussion between teacher and pupils and between pupils themselves ; |
| 15 | That is why it is wholly inadequate to describe drama as " learning through action " — in drama we learn through thinking in new ways about actions and about decisions we would not otherwise have the opportunity to take . |
| 16 | He 's a Tory who 's criticized Thamesdown council over its finances and about statues they 've approved around the borough . |
| 17 | Along the way , a great deal of information about speech act theory , and about work which has developed and challenged it , is presented clearly and coherently . |
| 18 | Biographical details are not relevant to what the Cloud-author and Walter Hilton have to say , and about Julian we know only those circumstances which immediately impinge on her visionary experience . |
| 19 | He was particularly worried about family law and about children who would not be protected if parents lost their right to legal aid . |
| 20 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 21 | IN THE EARLY years of the twentieth century , two new theories completely changed the way we think about space and time , and about reality itself . |
| 22 | WITH REGARD TO EQUIPMENT , the normally shy and retiring Mr Simmons has some interesting and unusual opinions , particularly in relation to the recent debate about chrome versus brass jackplugs , and about people who demand fastidious and exacting details like ‘ what amp settings does he use on any particular track , and what angle were the machine keys at ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ About the previous Christmas … we brought our myne unto the Wall , and about Candlemas we had wrought the wall halfe through . ’ |
| 24 | * Look at the range of titles in the field and for topics which keep coming up . |
| 25 | September 15 was a day of great significance for the two Normans and all who had helped them , for the local area and for aviation itself . |
| 26 | It is designed for broadcast into the home and for viewers who may be studying on their own . |
| 27 | He was a gentle lover , and for Anne it was all strange and wonderful . |
| 28 | An understanding of environmental problems is needed as a basis for policy making by national and local government , for the work of national and international agencies concerned both with use and conservation of natural resources , and for industries which inevitably have an environmental affect and education . |
| 29 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 30 | Balcon was forced off the CFC , where places were found both for Alexander Korda , who shared the new mogul 's enthusiasm for ‘ bigger and bigger films , ’ and for Rank himself . |