Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Ardeevan we just lay and rotted and nothing ever happened between Doctor Staples 's weekly rounds – except that someone died .
2 Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief .
3 Mario was always very clear on the subject , and I also talked at length with Peterson during the following year .
4 Some things were revived and rewritten from Sugar and Spite but Esther and I both wrote like maniacs , together , separately , new stuff .
5 Adèle was hoping Mr Rochester would call her down to meet the guests , but in the end she was so tired with all the excitement that she and I both went to bed early .
6 Ken and I both went to music lessons and the first interest I ever had in music was the teacher at the school .
7 In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type .
8 They were a very friendly lot and I soon felt at home .
9 And I actually spoke to Jenny about it
10 Mm but this was last year and I just cleared the ball and everybody ran out ran out and I suddenly collapsed in agony on the floor cos my knee just completely gave way and it was really painful and a minute later I stood up and it was fine , it did n't give me any more hassle for the rest of the day .
11 And I only said to Joe yesterday
12 And er Alan keeps saying , you can do it but you have to wait to the next programme coming through and I specifically asked for Liz to put it on .
13 When compared with the damage seen immediately after ethanol perfusion , however , injury grades II and III were reduced appreciably and injury grades 0 and I significantly increased in capsaicin pretreated rats ( Fig 3 ) .
14 Glenys and I recently went to Wembley for Nelson Mandela 's freedom celebration .
15 Finally they placed us in front of the studio audience to begin the discussion , and I quickly inquired from Judith Chalmers — working by now on some reserve energy tank :
16 I never did anything and I never played with children when I was a child because I did n't want to play with peasants on the estate , so I never did anything except sketching , painting and reading , and I 'm still doing pretty well exactly the same thing , and learning languages .
17 And I never went to hospital because me cousin was a nurse who 'd er you know got married and so she er proffered to nurse me which she did and er the then er health people in allowed me to stay at home because of this you see and I was at home and er that was in nineteen sixteen .
18 ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together .
19 God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time .
20 And I really felt on edge walking back
21 But Merry crawled and got into the pigsty ; and I almost fell on top of him and slammed the door .
22 The munitions workers are not forgotten , including Joan Williams who wrote of her new job : ‘ It was nothing to leap out of bed at 5.15 on a frosty morning and I almost danced down Queen 's Road under the stars , at the prospect of the day 's work before me . ’
23 All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more .
24 Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water .
25 With his television news background and now intimate knowledge of Middle East drugs trafficking , Coleman helped Ross and Silverman prepare what was generally considered to be as balanced and authoritative a survey of narco-terrorism as the media had ever presented to the American public , a contribution which they both generously acknowledged on several occasions afterwards and which subsequently led to Coleman 's appearance on NBC News after the Flight 103 disaster , although neither of them were aware then or before of his DIA/NARCOG affiliations .
26 This last was said with a kind of passionate zeal that was typical of Robert , and which sometimes grated on Stephen 's nerves .
27 I have met many of them at my advice surgery , and I will weep no tears over the demise of a tax that had no progressive element and which sometimes militated against people on low incomes .
28 And you always worked by time in stables , you 'd get out at say , you went at six o'clock , you got out till seven and were out two hours , that 's seven , eight , nine .
29 Berhtfrith praefectus , almost certainly the Berhtfrith who fought on Osred 's side at Bamburgh and who later spoke in favour of a settlement with Wilfrid at the council on the Nidd ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) , perhaps also a kinsman of Berhtred , son of Beornhaeth , was involved in a conflict in 711 in what had been Manau Gododdin between the Rivers Avon and Carron when the Picts were defeated ( HE V , 24 ; ASC D , s.a. 710 ; AU s.a. 710 : AT p. 222 ) .
30 By March the Fleming Cup was under way , the eventual winner in June being the ubiquitous Ernest Fryer , the Managing Director of Henley Brewery and who also played at Peppard .
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