Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 3 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 4 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
| 5 | It was his birthday and I 'd planned this surprise party for him . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 8 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 9 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 10 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 11 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I just could tell it was all getting to be too much for Mrs Foster , and I 've made some suggestions . |
| 14 | And I 've heard that story before . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Indeed and I 've heard great accounts of them , ’ Father Devlin said . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ I did some time with Sister Lovejoy last year , and I 've done some orthopaedics . ’ |
| 18 | And I 've done enough damage here already . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , yes , I think so , and I 've seen other people not confident , go out there and play like it , and not get any runs . ’ |
| 20 | Thin plastic tape is also obtainable for this purpose , and I 've seen narrow strips of cling film used very successfully ! |
| 21 | And I 've written this paper , not to give information and details on , how you do budget . |
| 22 | Yes I 've phoned and I 've written three times and I 've written to his mother our official letter , official no headed notepaper she 's not there , she works as a nurse does n't she ? |
| 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 | Well I know in one terrace alone in Street , Street used to have three big bonfires in this two hundred yards and I 've known one terrace , Terrace to have as many as twenty mattresses you know piled on the street ready for , and the big lad the bigger lads used to , to get the props get somebody 's prop and stoke the fire up and put the mattresses on . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Oh and I 've ordered more port and cigars from London . ’ |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | My second favourite place at the zoo was the Reptile House , and I 've had various sorts of reptiles as pets . |