Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cumbria is rugby league mad and everyone wants to see this match . |
| 2 | A Soviet statement three days later made it ‘ absolutely clear ’ that the proposal of the EEC states ‘ can not serve as a basis for talks and no-one intends to hold such talks with them ’ . |
| 3 | I mean , we all wrote loads and loads of stuff saying what a drag housework was , how trapped women were in their kitchens , but no-one 's analysed it before , and no-one 's had any ideas about what to do about it . |
| 4 | It was his birthday and I 'd planned this surprise party for him . |
| 5 | ‘ I came straight to Cochabamba with my family because we were lucky enough to have the money from my book and I 'd bought this land before leaving Bolivia in 1980 . |
| 6 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 7 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 8 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 9 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 10 | So Ollie had to change his passport and hand up another passport and I remember saying this guy plays in the big leagues . |
| 11 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 12 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 13 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |
| 14 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 15 | And I got to get some toilet roll . |
| 16 | They always let you use a ‘ phone and sometimes you get a private one in a booth or similar and I 've made many Stateside calls that way . |
| 17 | ‘ I just could tell it was all getting to be too much for Mrs Foster , and I 've made some suggestions . |
| 18 | And I 've heard that story before . ’ |
| 19 | Erm I do n't think I did no , oh no they did n't they would n't think of doing that then , but they do now and erm then I , I 've been around at Wiggens the old hall table where people you know , worked in the warehouse there and I 've done all sorts |
| 20 | ‘ I did some time with Sister Lovejoy last year , and I 've done some orthopaedics . ’ |
| 21 | And I 've done enough damage here already . ’ |
| 22 | And I 've written this paper , not to give information and details on , how you do budget . |
| 23 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
| 24 | Er yes current position er at the moment I 'm the licence training manager for brewery and I 've held that position for five and a half years . |
| 25 | I 'm sure that he is , the people who 've come from there , quite clearly recovering alcoholics or mental hospital patients , or possibly people from prison , and I 've known enough people in my time to know this . |
| 26 | Oh and I 've ordered more port and cigars from London . ’ |
| 27 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 28 | it 's a bit of a long time , because I come back January the fourteenth , fourteenth , and I 've had all Christmas off , have n't I ? |
| 29 | As Merrill nodded , Rob went on , ‘ Well , my mother will be home from her cruise on Saturday , and I 've had this idea … |
| 30 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |