Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 2 | did exactly the same , and I walked around with scabs two inches long . |
| 3 | Val and I set off with intentions to watch the jumps , but the Skippers road to the bridge is specifically excluded from motor insurance policies and when we saw it , we understood why ; it 's a dirt track along a precipice . |
| 4 | Go through the You take the book home , and you come up with ideas for the next meeting . |
| 5 | You try to be a white person or you go to them and try to be accepted and you go back to blacks and they do n't like it . |
| 6 | And you end up with loads of paper . |
| 7 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 8 | And she went round to friends telling them to get me organised when she was away . |
| 9 | All of a sudden , she whined something about me not knowing what I had done and she broke down into tears . |
| 10 | The charity 's annual conference was where she chose to make her first public appearance following the controversy and she broke down in tears at the vote of confidence they gave her . |
| 11 | I know he 's doing God 's work , but it will break my heart to see him leave ! ’ and she broke down in tears . |
| 12 | This led to an enormous diversity of plants , none of them doing particularly well and none taken out by trees . |
| 13 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 14 | I went to Fulham Road years ago with a friend of mine and we ended up on Mikonos for ten days . ’ |
| 15 | The flames shot straight up into the sky , dispersing whatever fog was in the immediate area , and we sat around on bales , as we have always done , while some members of the family let off fireworks in the background . |
| 16 | Tumbleweed had vanished leaving a bundle of pondweed under his chair but everybody else seemed reluctant to go and we stood about in groups while Aunt Bedelia and the ladies of the WI handed round cups of tea . |
| 17 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 18 | People came to read their poetry , they distributed their art work , they hung paintings and pictures on the walls , and they came along with things they had made , joke jewellery and candles and posters , selling them in the conservatory . |
| 19 | She enjoyed the Sundays when Grant came home and they went off on outings ‘ as if we were a perfectly ordinary family ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Aye , mention doing the double and they take off like ferrets wi' their gutties on , ’ she sighs . |
| 21 | Howard meets Phil Schaffer in various pubs , down there in the sea of lights — Phil knows the city intimately already — and they walk round for hours , talking and yawning and doing joky things . |
| 22 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 23 | But Chelsea are a formidible side right now and they battled back on terms when the imposing Mick Harford got the final touch to a Wise scissor kick . |
| 24 | But generally they enjoy themselves and they play around with inventions and machines like nobody 's business . |
| 25 | ‘ And they stand around in pentacles trying to raise the Devil ? ’ |
| 26 | I held them off with steelies and stones , and they fired back with air-guns , and for a while it was quite exciting , but then Mrs Clamp came with the weekly messages and threatened to call the police , and after calling her a few nasty names they left . |
| 27 | Kathleen went with them , Jack followed on his bike , and they raced back with sirens wailing . |
| 28 | In school , teachers show what they expect of children in terms of work and behaviour , they provide models for children by their own conduct and they feed back to children what they judge to be acceptable performance . |
| 29 | They say goodbye to wives who wear curlers , and they ride off on bikes with their scarves trailing behind like pennants . |
| 30 | We also had an Agricultural Orga Horticultural Organiser erm with experimental plots and he went round to schools as well and er |