Example sentences of "and [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 2 | ‘ I started playing guitar when I was fourteen , ’ says Rowland , ‘ and I was listening to people like Roxy Music and David Bowie . |
| 3 | and I was sent to Margate with my Mum . |
| 4 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 5 | And I was speaking to Elaine today erm , over at Queensway , who , who I used to work with and erm , her erm nephew , ne niece |
| 6 | I was posted to the er ack-ack brigade and I was posted to Norwich , just at Norwich , Coldershaw really . |
| 7 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 8 | ‘ She discovered a problem with a blood test and I was admitted to hospital . ’ |
| 9 | Erm Ian left that with me and I was to speak to Bob before Bob gave it to because it was n't very good . |
| 10 | Mum just wrapped her up , rang the ambulance , and I was taken to hospital . |
| 11 | So I decided that it was time to pack up I decided that the nights were made to sleep on n n n and I was going to sleep on them you see ? |
| 12 | Erm and this is the reason why I brought this tape recorder , and I was saying to Bernard a moment ago , one of the most embarrassing things that can happen erm when talking to a group like this is when you pressed a button er whether it 's a , a tape recorder a video machine or whatever , you pressed a button full of confidence in all the latest technology and there 's an embarrassing silence . |
| 13 | Anyway , erm Raymond was on the phone because he was tal and I was saying to Jim tell him I do n't want him to come if the ra if the road 's cut off to Blythe I do n't want him to get stuck , I mean , he 's got a wife |
| 14 | furniture polish , and I was saying to Martin how , I do n't know how our |
| 15 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 16 | I started off playing mid-field er and I was switched to full-back by Billy Bremner at Doncaster half way through this season , and I been playing full-back since like . |
| 17 | in nineteen eighty six I think it was the company divisionalized and I was promoted to sales and marketing director of the erm , I think it was the developments division , which was , was the retirement housing division |
| 18 | Also conceived in the tropics was a model of landscape development which was generated against the background of the seasonally humid tropics rather than the semi-arid , and which was related to weathering profiles and to igneous rocks and the experience of soil scientists together with the benefits of inputs from climatic geomorphology . |
| 19 | I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! " |
| 20 | When a mild complaint was made against the Tunbridge Wells paid secretary and she was invited to Bloomsbury House to discuss the matter with Lola Hahn-Warburg , her reaction was hostile , to put it mildly . |
| 21 | Just the touch of his hand and she was turned to putty . |
| 22 | Her weight has dropped from 13 to seven stone and she was transferred to Rampton last August for medical treatment . |
| 23 | and honorary degrees from Pennsylvania , Toulouse , and Poitiers ; and she was elected to fellowship of the British Academy in 1952 . |
| 24 | Still , they were going to Florida and she was going to Spain , so at least this year she had something to look forward to . |
| 25 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 26 | So , like , we 've got this thing about her , anyway , she was com and she was talking to Fiona today and she was stood next to me , and like in a way , I was laughing at her but I felt so sorry for her cos she really , really stunk ! |
| 27 | Barney had flown to the States last Thursday , and she was driving to London later that Tuesday to the flat where he and Cara lived . |
| 28 | There was a chase and we managed to corner the prisoner , then I grabbed her and she was returned to custody . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't get out much , just sit here pecking out letters to old friends ’ — there was a portable typewriter on one of the tables — ‘ and she was coming to tea last Monday . |
| 30 | She hid them in our quarters , thinking they might be of use to the party , but Devraux found them and she was taken to prison . |