Example sentences of "and [adv] i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 2 | The trouble was I started wanting to play straight-ahead rock and heavy metal and so I left the traditional blues stuff on the back burner . |
| 3 | And so I left the old lady in her bride 's dress in the candle-light , with the dusty furniture around her . |
| 4 | And so I became the single , visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire . |
| 5 | I could n't stand the thought of him seeing anyone else and so I did the only thing I could think of : I decided to spy on him . |
| 6 | Between that and the idea of seeing the McLaren girl , it sounded better and better and finally I got the Mexican boy , who was out front again , and sent him after Mr. Mendez . |
| 7 | When I came home on leave I used to meet them in Crawford 's Oak Hall in Princes Street , and now I made the usual arrangement . |
| 8 | I thought of the luxury we were enjoying ; our comfortable beds , baths , and motor cars , and then I recalled the ancient custom of giving a man selected for the sacrifice a royal time of it before the appointed day . |
| 9 | I figured I must be the only fool who was trying to start something ; I was trying to get that big BB King sound and then I saw The Fabulous Thunderbirds , with Jimmie Vaughan on guitar . |
| 10 | And then I saw The Real McCoy that was the last one I think . |
| 11 | So I had to look after myself so I I had one and then I had the other one , just stop at two . |
| 12 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 13 | Well , it did and then I laughed the loudest , but it hurt inside . |
| 14 | When we got back from Majorca , I was sent to another school for a year , and then I took the so-called eleven-plus examination . |
| 15 | The till was now 20 deep with impatient customers clutching their coffee pots and blenders — and then I discovered the real bane of the shop assistant 's life : The Haggler . |
| 16 | I was sick all over him and he cleaned me up and himself up and emptied the bowl and then I did the same thing again . |
| 17 | And then my erm my mother saw him and then I went to see him and Then I started the last week in July with him after the school closed . |
| 18 | Again and again I heard the same story of deepening poverty driving students to take the decision to drop out of education . |
| 19 | Marius dragged me back to camp and afterwards I told the other legionnaires how she had wanted to sleep with me , but I had turned her down . |