Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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1 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
2 | Manager : We sat with the clinicians and said , look we 've got to identify the capital to do this properly and we drew up a clinic scheme and then we had to compromise on what they wanted and John at one stage said , " I 'm sorry , that is what you 're getting . |
3 | Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship . |
4 | Perhaps he saw it , for his face relaxed at once and he held out an arm to her . |
5 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
6 | And they always have a holiday abroad and they go out a lot , good social life . |
7 | Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London . |