Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
2 | Lot twenty five little red Peter Pan there it is now showing , thank you and I 've a hundred pounds offered for this , any more at one hundred ? |
3 | Benjamin and I followed a few minutes later . |
4 | Well , you know , I think it was a kind of sports bag or something and I thought oh I 'll go along with that and the other , I mean I had heard of them before and I made a few enquiries and they said , you know , you you were quite quality company so I thought |
5 | Since I was one of the first to awaken , my noise was far from popular , and I received a few kicks and blows from my neighbours , in their kindly efforts to speed my recovery . |
6 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
7 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
8 | There were shrieks of laughter and I felt a thousand bruises rising . |
9 | And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes . |
10 | And I want a dozen bottles for myself ’ |
11 | And Lot twenty nine is a Mikkyphone , that kind of Mikkyphone , Lot twenty nine and I have a hundred pounds offered , any more at a hundred ? |
12 | ‘ As I said , you and I have a few things to settle before you leave . ’ |
13 | I was involved with the show that was recorded at The Marquee and I think a few months after that he called me and said he was doing an album called ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ and did n't know where to get it mixed . |
14 | You can see those rows of abbots on either side and behind them is a long tradition of succession of abbots including great saints and I suppose a few sinners as well . |
15 | And you got a few bits that your |
16 | Seven , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven Ascot fruit stake , ticket on a horse roll a double and you win a thousand pounds , roll an even and you win two hundred , roll an odd and you |
17 | He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side . |
18 | Then there 's the lending it out problem , where presumably people say ‘ can I borrow this stuff ’ and they just sort of walk off with it and you do n't know whether you 've got it all back , and you find a few weeks later there 's a lead missing . |
19 | and er , she said er , she 's got things sort of straightened out and she had a good nights sleep with her dog , both dogs , one on the bed and one by the side of her . |
20 | and she had a hundred pounds , she put a hundred pounds in to cover the , you know , to put her back into credit . |
21 | The sound system 's speakers were like upended steamer trunks , one on top of another ; standing so close , the volume gave her a sensation in her ears like that of tearing paper and she experienced a few moments of sensory overload before she recognised the tune as New York , New York . |
22 | I sent a copy of the Minister 's letter to Mrs. X and she responded a few days later on 20 October . |
23 | She was holding my fob watch and she said a few things about this , and about us and about dead people and |
24 | The door of the house opened , and she heard a few words exchanged between David and his grandmother . |
25 | And she sang a few bars into the mouthpiece , swaying a little , watching the lights go off in the theatre . |
26 | The interior of her car was a furnace and she frittered a few moments wandering in the graveyard after opening the car doors to cool it . |
27 | ‘ A couple of interviews this morning , and I met Penny Seu Chen this afternoon and she showed me round our building , studios and offices , and we rearranged a few things in mine . |
28 | It just looked so out of proportion and we had a few giggles about it . |
29 | We sat there and had two or three or four and it got to 11 o'clock and we had a few sandwiches and things like that , and we just sat there talking . |
30 | She came along and we had a few words . ’ |