Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And me turning about like a drowning fish in a mesh of shadows drawing round . |
| 2 | The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello . |
| 3 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
| 4 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 5 | I could n't let this frail old man go In there and maybe get knocked down and savaged , and I looked around for a means of protection . |
| 6 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 7 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 8 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 9 | I buy a cup of tea so thin it could have been made by Rachel 's landlady , and I stare out through a steamed-up café window across the cold empty promenade . |
| 10 | She went back into the house and I waited outside for a while enjoying the cool breeze . |
| 11 | I thought it was the other church , the one near the market , and I waited there till a quarter to twelve , and then I realized my mistake . |
| 12 | The house and I waited silently in a sea of insect sound . |
| 13 | There was a moment when I was convinced I was going to die but at last a long wailing respiration came to my aid and I struggled painfully into a sitting position . |
| 14 | My wife and I returned recently from a visit to our son in South Australia , and whilst there we paid several visits to the local RAFA branch . |
| 15 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 16 | When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side . |
| 17 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 18 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 19 | We went to Ireland for the summer and our visit there was great fun ; Brian and I drove about in a donkey-cart , fished for eels , and shot rabbits with a 410 . |
| 20 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 21 | Dr Tehyi Hsieh took five curtain calls after that lecture , and I went back-stage for an interview afterwards . |
| 22 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 23 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 24 | Er and I went there as a boy after engines and things you know , in then , do you remember them ? |
| 25 | And I went then from a , a timber mill and they there 's various different jobs I 've been in since then , you know ? |
| 26 | Mm , I thought I 'd get it , I really did think I 'd get it and I went down with a bump when I did n't |
| 27 | Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street . |
| 28 | Something hit me on the back of the head , here , and I went out like a light . |
| 29 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 30 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |