Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’
2 Mum and I get on a lot better these days .
3 Above the chasms we stopped and I kicked out a shelf for the camera bags .
4 I sent off my $5 and I got back a list of occupations : TV repairman , shoe salesman , musician , fireman , axe murderer .
5 I got myself a couple of sausages on sticks , a hunk of crusty bread , and another Scotch , and I took over a pint of bitter for Seddon .
6 So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them .
7 In the spring of 1940 John Avison and I rounded up a group of like-minded radio people with the object of renting a large house as far away as possible from downtown Vancouver .
8 I saw the plant growing happily in a garden in Virginia , and I brought back a cutting
9 Patsy and I corresponded over a period of four months .
10 The door began to close and I put out a hand to stop it .
11 ‘ I noticed that a few counties had decided on June 6 and I sent out a letter pointing out that the recommended date was the second Saturday in June .
12 My home club is Coombe Hill in Kingston , Surrey , and I play off a handicap of 17 .
13 And I picked up a pack of contraceptives .
14 And I picked up a load of washing the other day and put it in the washing machine and I washed it .
15 ‘ Steve and I teamed up a while back .
16 My wife and I saved over a number of years to get enough money together for a decent Land Rover .
17 He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune .
18 You spend twenty minutes on it every night , and you scratch off a layer of dead skin .
19 The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made .
20 Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ?
21 And you take out a box of stuff and they 're sorting through the stuff and you 're like , excuse me , and you 're trying to get your tables out
22 Suspiciousness becomes almost an instinct , powerful and all-pervasive : ‘ When you go out on a Sunday afternoon [ in the country ] , say , and you look over a bridge at the stream , you can not help yourself .
23 I 'll empty the pockets , and you stand back a bit .
24 They provided a bus , you had a bus ride and you picked up a couple of guides er , who during the night would take you over the er take you over the er Pyrenees , er over the mountains er , the Pyrenees , you see becau er you 're in need of a guide because the er the frontier posts etcetera etcetera were shut , were closed .
25 This may be illustrated by considering the position of a man on average wages whose wife does n't earn , who has two children under 11 , and who takes out a mortgage of three times annual income .
26 In a despairing sweep her gaze ran over the dress , and she bit back a groan .
27 In a fast sweep her eyes ran from the top of his dark head down to the tips of his elegant feet , and she bit back a groan as she realised that that tempting glimpse of his body had done nothing to prepare her for Luke Calder in the magnificent flesh .
28 The warmth in his voice reached out to her , thawing the numb , frozen parts deep inside , and she choked back a sob .
29 And she sent off a turtle-dove to ask help from the old marshwife .
30 Yes we used to go to see her , and she came up a couple of times .
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