Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | His a terrible , so we did n't go near him right through on the playing field , and then Katherine , I found to get , I sat , found a way to get them near Matthew and then Katherine said , I tickled him on the back , and I 'd kept on doing that . . |
2 | Her hair , which had always been her most attractive feature , was now lined with grey , and she had given up dying it black . |
3 | Erm , another day , when you tried to set some , and we were all dying , and we kept carry on going , but we could have said somebody would on to each other , or whatever |
4 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
5 | All the royal residences have magnificent gardens and he had grown up appreciating them , but they are tended by gardeners : neither the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh is interested . |
6 | The year before , Ruari had built himself a wee turf hut among the skeps on the moor to keep an eye on them , but Mairi complained about having to bring his food so far , and he 'd given up using it . |
7 | It was still new to him and he wanted to go on doing it . |