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

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1 Lutyens 's verdict was law , and nothing escaped his personal praise or criticism .
2 Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures .
3 He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension .
4 And I got her two strips of Elastaplast .
5 ‘ Yes , and I got my other hearing-aid , and some notes — ’
6 Yeah , and he bought bought bits and that , and I got my little book , you know , my pictures in have n't I ?
7 At the end of summer there were still patches of old snow on the sheltered slopes of the Cirque des Pessons , and I wrote my first poem about Andorra :
8 I was having all that done one day and I heard one little girl say to another , ‘ Why do they keep doing her make-up ? ’
9 He spoke to her in very precise Greek , and I heard my own name and the name of the school .
10 and I swapped him this elephant
11 Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners .
12 Well I know where my oh is that yours ? it 's in my overall pockets and I , I tell you what 's in the , in the thing with it , me petrol one and I had me premium punch put on there look .
13 I was reading and no doubt seeing myself as Chopin , and I had my new book on birds beside me .
14 I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink .
15 When I reached the pit bottom , there was approximately three feet of water at the pit bottom and I had my first experience of water in the mines .
16 When we were seated facing each other again she gave me a ball of pink wool and a pair of knitting needles and I had my first lesson in how to knit properly without dropping stitches .
17 Now we did not have to sit on the edge of the bed — a much wider bed — because there were two chairs , and I had my own shower and facilities for making coffee and snacks .
18 You know , this is how it was first and I only come across that but , how it went , they felt I was genuine I suppose and they could trust me and they left it as it was and I had me own building .
19 He ducked into one of the caves and I followed his bent back and the torchlight in the chill and damp .
20 I saw clouds passing swiftly by and I sensed my own movement in another time and space .
21 When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could .
22 Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ?
23 ‘ At Bulawayo we had 45,000 crowds for club games and I made my international debut at 14 , so I was n't that ‘ wowed ’ to arrive in England . ’
24 She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread .
25 When we made love that day in your room , and I experienced my own frailty , it shook me .
26 and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go
27 She needed one or two things doing to her , and I spent my short leaves at Easter and Whitsun re-painting her and making her seaworthy .
28 Hamilton and I spent our last night in Rome at a very respectable hotel on the Via Garibaldi , near the high walls of the prison .
29 It 's the new marrow and ginger , Dorothy and I chose it this afternoon .
30 And I smoked my last cigarette years ago right here in Sheffield , England . ’
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