Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
| 2 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 3 | Y we put it in the garden and I got really cold hands and then was just about to put them into hot water when you said do n't cos you 'll get chilblains |
| 4 | Norma got a huge big chip with chicken dip and then we brought Fred back something to eat as well , we were starving , and I got home last night and I was gon na make myself a sandwich but mummy-in-law was in bed so I says och I 'll just go to bed myself . |
| 5 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 6 | And I got hardly any cans back . |
| 7 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
| 8 | Having now seen the answers , I find that my wife and I had just one word wrong . |
| 9 | To avoid them I should either have had to go several hundred yards through dense undergrowth , or make a wide detour round and above them ; the former would have subjected me to very great danger , and there was no time for the latter , for the sun was near setting and I had still two miles to go . |
| 10 | But I was an old man with bad eyes , and Aunt Branwell and I had very little money . |
| 11 | Poor Julia and I had very unhappy lives . |
| 12 | By the time of the Lancaster House talks , Mrs Thatcher was in power , and I had very few dealings with her , and so I was not invited to participate . |
| 13 | And I thought well that way it 's done in n it ? |
| 14 | He reminded us of our debt to those whose labour supported our studies and I recalled this many years later when , passing through Harvard , I read the inscription commemorating the foundation of its college in order that future generations might be spared an unlettered clergy . |
| 15 | The river was running fast and I learnt later that bathing could be perilous . |
| 16 | Mice and black-beetles and cook-maids had played Old Harry with some cantatas and a vast great passion according to St Mark , in High Dutch ; but lower down all was well , and I brought away several pieces , 'cello for you , fiddle for me , and some for both together . |
| 17 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 18 | And I said well any rate he come up and said where 's the fiver ? |
| 19 | And I went there four weeks . |
| 20 | I am pleased to say that later in life , Ralph and I became very close friends . |
| 21 | In more than two years of living with one band of Semai , my wife and I witnessed only two instances of large-scale co-operative action , one of which I had to organize myself to mobilize a labour force to repair a dangerously deteriorated suspension bridge which nearly everyone in the band used every day , and which was literally on the verge of collapse . |
| 22 | And I saw then this discipline and order . |
| 23 | And I saw then this discipline and order . |
| 24 | And I expended so much energy making it beautiful for you ! ’ |
| 25 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 26 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 27 | He and I worked together last year when I chaired TVS 's political programme Questions . |
| 28 | So I went up into a tree and I stayed there all night . |
| 29 | The giro was £20.60 , the fare was £12 and I stayed about six days . |
| 30 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |