Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The record came to an end and everyone clapped and gave high-spirited whoops and whistles . |
| 2 | I lived and breathed that show . ’ |
| 3 | I 've got a job that I love doing , and er , I also take the view that if I came and did this programme and moaned away at everybody , and er , moaned away about everything , nobody would ring me up , and nobody would listen . |
| 4 | When I arrived and asked many people for advice , I was directed to the theatre district , Piccadilly Circus , all the obvious places , as well as some less obvious , whose names I do not know . |
| 5 | When I arrived and asked many people for advice , I was directed to the theatre district , Piccadilly Circus , all the obvious places , as well as some less obvious , whose names I do not know . |
| 6 | When I was a bairn I loathed and feared these dogs , and as my parents often liked to get rid of me I used to stay for short holidays with both uncles , and so I saw more of the dogs than I liked . |
| 7 | ‘ I was disappointed with how I handled and managed certain situations , but I know I 've learned from that and I 'm better for it . ’ |
| 8 | I packed and repacked many times ( before I left and after I got there ) . |
| 9 | I talked and talked that night , I remember , about all sorts of things . |
| 10 | Oh well er I got tired of it you know so I went and got another place . |
| 11 | I went and got last night and I 'm saying to him , now give me your numbers . |
| 12 | After I 'd finished I went and did six months in Banbury in er Oxfordshire er doing surgery . |
| 13 | I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him . |
| 14 | ‘ That was something I missed terribly when I retired and doing this race for the first time is a way of replacing it . ’ |
| 15 | I sat and pondered these options for some time before deciding that numbers 1 and 2 were probably a bit over the top ( especially if it WAS Darren White that she really fancied ! ) . |
| 16 | And yet there was no school of thought which cultivated and refined that enthusiasm , no influential and witty group of young film makers who could draw him in and use him as C. A. Lejeune perceptively realised he could be used . |
| 17 | As in the past preservation will be influenced not by what historians want but by the needs and fortunes of the social structures which created and guarded such information . |
| 18 | This was significant in that it tended to be the press which informed and influenced political debate . |
| 19 | During the 1970s Andres Valenzuela , right , served in a death squad which hunted and killed Chilean Communists . |
| 20 | Aberconwy councillor Graham Rees praised the ‘ Dunkirk spirit ’ which emerged and paid particular tribute to youngsters who helped the elderly . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's a man in here who kidnapped and murdered two babies . |
| 22 | A Palestinian who stabbed and wounded three Jews in Jerusalem on May 17 was quickly captured by the police . |
| 23 | ‘ She lived and found powerful friends . |
| 24 | Thank you to all Q.T 's who have supported the Draw , particularly those who requested and sold more tickets . |
| 25 | There were important figures of the Enlightenment who distrusted and disliked any form of despotic rule . |
| 26 | Instead of ringing for the maid she rose and poured more tea . |
| 27 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 28 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 29 | Second to Henry Yevele , Wynford was an architect of genius who transformed and unified English building . |
| 30 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |