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 .
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