Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the market saturated , the bubble burst , and everyone thought the console business was finished . |
| 2 | Matron had found Mcduff , Mould and Wednesday and everyone spent the evening thinking of a plan . |
| 3 | And I got the Engine Room boys in the basement to give me three photocopies of our Romanian friend . ’ |
| 4 | And I heard the bathroom window open and I went in there , I was just having a look , admiring my little shed roof there ! |
| 5 | Tricia noticed it too , for she put herself between us again on the front seat and I heard the giveaway click-clack from her pocket . |
| 6 | Tony and I shared the navigation seat , and right now I was in the back , warm , comfortable and dozing gently . |
| 7 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 8 | And I had the TV cameras on me for most of the time . |
| 9 | for my biscuit today and for myself I had a dinosaur , Miss gave me a whole dinosaur and I had the head arms , erm , the head of the big one |
| 10 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 11 | Into Tommy 's holdall went the binoculars-camera and the hair curler ( one never knew ) , and I had the cigarette lighter-camera as always in my pocket . |
| 12 | We were making love , and I took the paper bag off my head . |
| 13 | You see , I was a little kid a year ago and I made the mistake kids make . |
| 14 | It empties the pocket and I thought the car keys were in there , my car keys . |
| 15 | Then it happened again and I checked the fuel filter and discovered that is was contaminated . |
| 16 | And I counted the word environment and environmental , forty five times and not one scraptwo thousand and |
| 17 | After some zigging and zagging , Adrian Scanlon and I reached the golf course outside Carrick-on-Shannon , said to lie on the old Woodbrook estate . |
| 18 | He turned over to me and I felt the gun barrel at my head . |
| 19 | They were big and I registered the yob uniform — jeans and bomber jackets . |
| 20 | There 's no need to worry — I 'd not live there for all the gold in Christendom and I told the lady Anne as much ! |
| 21 | At 16–17 miles my hamstrings were starting to burn slightly , and I knew the pain barrier was close . |
| 22 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 23 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 24 | I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower . |
| 25 | And I saw the science club one about the bones . |
| 26 | Almost one might , says the other Robert , and I saw the seed fall on fertile ground , and there he 's tended it ever since . |
| 27 | He phoned , and I answered the phone look and erm he changed the story , he said if she wants any money I 'll let her have some . |
| 28 | I said , no , and she said oh I have lots of times , I only live at Manchester , you see , and of course , you had to go by boat you see , and I caught the boat train from Ipswich at eight o'clock in the morning and I got to Manchester at lunchtime about one and then went on to Liverpool and the train there took us almost down to the docks . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 30 | ‘ And I loved the dragon dance ; the aboriginal dancing too … |