Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in the afternoon , a porter came along with a creaking trolley carrying a coffee urn and snackstuffs , and everyone stirred to a kind of frisky wakefulness and examined the fare keenly . |
| 2 | At this there was a loud outburst of laughter , and everyone looked at a girl sitting at the back , who , scarlet in the face , ran out of the room , sobbing . |
| 3 | They could hear the sound of music coming nearer , and everyone turned as a silver band came round the corner into the main dusty street , men dressed in grey trousers and pink shirts , their instruments glistening in the morning sun . |
| 4 | Where business executives are concerned , though , management has in most cases considerable discretion in deciding whom to retain and whom to release in a redundancy exercise . |
| 5 | And I walk down a corridor and I go in a door , and they 're there . ’ |
| 6 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |
| 7 | Dr Jaffery and I passed by a cluster of black-chadored ladies spooning ice cream under their veils . |
| 8 | He and I got into a bit of a squabble . |
| 9 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 10 | The pilot of a plane Tony and I shared with a bunch of drunks en route to Akureyri once told a very poor story . |
| 11 | I doubt either can afford to stay at a hotel and I know for a fact that they 're not at any of the local hostels ; neither , I have been reliably informed , have they put in an appearance at the local ‘ hippie ’ compound . |
| 12 | And when I 've done a a spot on photograph for them , when somebody else is mentioning a photograph , you know , er to go up in the Town Hall or whatever , er they the local mayor has just had one done by one of the guys in the workshop , and I know for a fact I could do one that 's ten times better than that . |
| 13 | No , he calmly surveys them , holds his hands up for silence — and I know for a fact he ca n't speak a word of Japanese . ’ |
| 14 | She 's getting some money , and I know for a fact she getting it . |
| 15 | I storm , and I roar , and I fall in a rage |
| 16 | George beckoned and I followed through a door into the heat of the rear section of the engines , the section containing among other things the boiler which provided steam to heat the whole train . |
| 17 | An area representative is a volunteer , just like everybody here in this audience today , and I act as a link between the branches and headquarters , working with the area organiser but representing the branches , for me personally in Sussex . |
| 18 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 19 | He produced a pocket-book and I thought for a moment he was going to tip me . |
| 20 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 21 | and I thought of a man who |
| 22 | His face was hard , his neck rigid , his eyes narrow ; and I thought in a flash of Paul Shacklebury , the lad dead in his ditch . |
| 23 | They fussed around until the doctor left , when everything went deathly quiet , and I slept like a log until morning . |
| 24 | and er , it was gone eleven I would of thought , anyway he stopped and I slept like a log , got up at twenty past six , but erm , it 's a strange thing because one of those came last evening and it parked outside George 's , now I said yesterday , when Alan goes to work , it 's not long after six normally to go up to London and that |
| 25 | The bed was comfortable and I slept like a top . |
| 26 | He did n't take me on his knee any longer , and I slept in a bed of my own . |
| 27 | Tony and I embarked on a consideration of Child Benefit but before many minutes had gone by a note was sent in informing us that Peter Carrington had resigned . |
| 28 | Bob Platt and I pressed for a bowler as fiercely as we could , but to no avail . |
| 29 | But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval . |
| 30 | and I walked on a couple , two or three and picked up this bloody carton out of the road and I was right next to Linda 's car |