Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 2 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 3 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 4 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 5 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 6 | You wanted a man , and you wanted him for good — because after all , you were getting on then , were n't you ? |
| 7 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 8 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 9 | He was offering her an out and she respected him for that . |
| 10 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 11 | The truth was there in his eyes , and she hated him for that , too . |
| 12 | His head dipped towards her , and she braced herself for another of his harsh , punishing kisses , knowing any attempt at escape would be a complete waste of time . |
| 13 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |
| 14 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 15 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 16 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 17 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 18 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |
| 19 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 20 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |