Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | THOMPSON : ‘ The thing with Bill Shankly was that we were always a family and everyone knew each other from the cleaning lady to the girls in the ticket office . |
2 | That left Jack and me to pay some attention to the history of the place . |
3 | Our Psalm today said ‘ God , in your goodness , you have made a home for the poor , ’ but God needs people like you and me to make this home for everyone . |
4 | And I get these pains in my stomach . |
5 | You must be delighted with your progress , and I hope this feeling of wellbeing will encourage you to continue with the programme . |
6 | And I remember this time in Winners when he , he picked them up and looked at them and said I do n't think these are the right ones for my car and that , that 's why I thought |
7 | As Mr Charles , our chief male nurse and I passed each other on our way to and from the admission ward and our offices we had first one and then another sorry tale to tell . |
8 | Loud bangs started upstairs and I imagined all kinds of things were happening . |
9 | and I got some fruit up the market on Friday . |
10 | pullover and I got those socks for Tony . |
11 | I said I 'll ha take one pair and er the lady 's called Irene , she 's had the shop for years and years mum always gets and I got those stockings for you |
12 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
13 | Oh yeah and I mean that sort of size |
14 | So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals . |
15 | Whatever the objective truth of this assertion , it could have been formulated on purpose to infuriate me , and I denied both halves of it . |
16 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
17 | ‘ Well , I think , and I use that word in its broadest sense , I think you should jump on her . |
18 | Well we never use them and I 've another reason for wanting rid of them . |
19 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
20 | I obviously understood this very well and I had all sorts of |
21 | But I remember going on it and I had those transfers on my arms |
22 | Well when you say cake , do n't get the wrong ideas , erm my idea of a cake , the vision that I had of a , a three tier cake , came to me as I was striding home from a meeting across The Downs and I had this vision of a three tier cake . |
23 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
24 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
25 | There was , of course , a great deal of fun as well , and I made some contribution to the musical life of INSEAD by setting up an 11-piece band which played at the summer ball amongst other events . |
26 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
27 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
28 | And I stuck this bit of ivy in hoping it would grow over the fence . |
29 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
30 | Then one night I went out and I met this DJ from Taboo , which was a club at the time . |