Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid .
2 Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind
3 The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be .
4 Yeah do you know if your on duty and you get caught co-habitating did you say , said er , yeah court marshall , discharged you with a , discharge you
5 ‘ A skivvy ? ’ said her papa , almost disbelieving , and she saw that Mama felt the same .
6 They were beautiful and she had two others did n't she ?
7 And she had that paint did n't she ?
8 Juveniles dominated the exposed shore and she thought few adults survived more than two years .
9 ‘ Unfortunately , the referee completely lost it and we had three players sent off . ’
10 And we kept these things minuted in a minute book .
11 ‘ We have seen the option of ‘ further use ’ being used in the past as a gateway to all sorts of possible bad and environmentally unfriendly methods of disposal and we want that loophole closed ’ .
12 ‘ But the League is vitally important and we have eight games left to sort it out .
13 ‘ I once went to Japan to advise on a course , ’ he continued , ‘ and they wanted this bunker reproduced exactly as it is on the Old Course . ’
14 This annoyed Citrine and he had formal resolutions passed requesting the presence of the chairmen , but these also were sometimes ignored .
15 However , the tragedy upset Burke and he became convinced people regarded him as a murderer , so he sailed across to the United States .
16 And he says British officers ordered the mercenaries to be shot to avoid embarrassing the US .
17 And he said adult education had never been cut .
18 There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ?
19 And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last .
20 Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all .
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