Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1988 , at a particularly lively , contentious and near-violent writers ' conference in Budapest , Angela and I listened one quiet afternoon to the omnipresent Susan Sontag as she revealed that she had devoured ( her cliche ) the great classics of English literature soon after discarding her diapers . |
2 | It 's just a bad case of de ja vu , de ja vu , de ja vu , yeah and I got some rough comics you know . |
3 | I rang through and I got some old berk being facetious on an Ansaphone . |
4 | Actually , I got sixteen pound commission so far , and I got some more people |
5 | ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record . |
6 | The sugar was only fifty nine in the market as I came past at Charlie 's you know , I thought well I 'll get some of that and I got those jumbo eggs there , only a pound a dozen big ones , you know You done ? |
7 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
8 | And I got this big bit then , put it in the freezer |
9 | But as I came closer , I could not hear the sound of Joe 's hammer , and I noticed fresh white curtains at the windows , and bright flowers everywhere . |
10 | Gradually , I was made to feel unpopular and I applied these new standards to him . |
11 | And I cooked this superb lunch . |
12 | Ray and I exchanged those few words , then climbed on towards the concrete parody of a summit . |
13 | He finished 20 minutes behind me and I had two torn hamstrings . ’ |
14 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |
15 | Before she could ask whom he intended to marry this time he said , ‘ After you left and I had that final bust-up with Marc I rang Marianne and told her she could do better than marry a penniless school-kid . ’ |
16 | and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed |
17 | Well Steve 's mum had fifty pounds worth off of Steve' aunty look , so erm I did about hundred and twenty five and I had twenty five pound back . |
18 | ‘ Reading ’ docked and I had another express letter to say the date could be June 6th . |
19 | Afterwards we split up into various groups , and and I had another formal introduction to one of the ‘ production teams ’ ( which is really a little hamlet with a population of 200 or so near the town ) . |
20 | And I had three more telephone enquiries e and they were by telephone , they 're in a hurry , you know , can you do it until the fifteenth of May , or can you do it until February something . |
21 | God , yesterday I looked at Oliver and I had this strange thought . |
22 | And I had this strange image of myself and Frankie Vaughan sitting in her front room , spinning a coin to see who went first . |
23 | They were only gon na ring us if there was anything wrong and I had this horrible feeling at that point that that was the vet ringing up to say things had gone wrong . |
24 | Throughout the following days of my work experience the owner and I had some stimulating conversations , from which I learnt a vast amount of information about music , his job and the popular music industry . |
25 | They were five or ten rupees a packet and they hurt a lot and I had some internal injuries . |
26 | By that time , David and I had some serious talks and I went on the road for the second part of the tour to try to salvage the relationship , which did n't really work . |
27 | Well I also was er , er , a producer then in the B B C and so he and I had some cheerful encounters at that time , since when he has obviously gone from strength to strength . |
28 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
29 | And I took that little book up to the union and showed it to the branch secretary and still I never got my bike or any compensation for it . |
30 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |