Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also found the work to be a lot more precise and everyone put that little bit of extra effort into their work . |
| 2 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 3 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I rang through and I got some old berk being facetious on an Ansaphone . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | And I got this big bit then , put it in the freezer |
| 11 | and I mean that young fullback looked brilliant ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Gradually , I was made to feel unpopular and I applied these new standards to him . |
| 14 | And I cooked this superb lunch . |
| 15 | I do n't mind telling you , I am something of an expert at swimming myself , and I know some smashing spots for a jolly good sssplash up . ’ |
| 16 | He finished 20 minutes behind me and I had two torn hamstrings . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Reading ’ docked and I had another express letter to say the date could be June 6th . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 2.45:BY far and away the most competitive juvenile race run so far this term , and I fancy in-form Flat handicapper ROBINGO to make a winning debut over hurdles for Martin Pipe . |
| 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 | Er and it , it kept looking at me and I thought cheeky little bugger . |