Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there was nothing I could do about it , and I simply had to accept the situation . |
| 2 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 3 | I polished the steel with bath-brick ; and I also had to do the morning-room stove . |
| 4 | Ann and I even managed to find a boat and ventured out fishing on Dunalister Reservoir , a shallow , flooded loch between Rannoch and Tummel , formed when the waters of Rannoch were impounded as part of the Pitlochry Hydro Electric Scheme . |
| 5 | ‘ The price tag worried me and I badly wanted to repay the faith Palace had shown in me . |
| 6 | Well , they did during the Underground strikes , and I honestly did know a young brat-race type who went to work in the West End on a unicycle . |
| 7 | Her conversation is always worth listening to , and I completely forgot to ask the name of the dark , proud girl . |
| 8 | It was my first experience of flying and I soon came to like the journeys , usually from Aberdeen to Norwich for me , in the low flying Fokker Friendships of Air Anglia , later to become Air UK . |
| 9 | ‘ My parents had given me a little electric keyboard for my fourth birthday , and I quickly learnt to play the tunes in the manual . |
| 10 | I felt very down , but once he began to need my milk it seemed worthwhile and I gradually began to produce a little more at each pumping . |
| 11 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 12 | Next stop was San Francisco — hidden by smog — and I never did find the Golden Gate Bridge ! |
| 13 | Will and I always went to see the plays . |
| 14 | ‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The juniors were very earnest and keen cricketers and I always found umpiring a ticklish business as I do not know the rules . |
| 16 | There was only one toilet and you just had to hope no one came in with any diseases or anything . |
| 17 | yes well it 's only just like you do if you 've not got erm teletext and you just wanted to see the picture . |
| 18 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 19 | This woman was 37 years old , and she too had had a lumpectomy and radiotherapy four years earlier . |
| 20 | A sound caused her to jump slightly and she half turned to see a figure silhouetted in the doorway . |
| 21 | And she hardly had to say a word the whole evening . |
| 22 | Our players were magnificent in defence in the second half and we somehow managed to keep the Irish out ’ — RICHARD GACHES ( Thurrock captain ) after the shock defeat of London Irish in the Pilkington Cup third round . |
| 23 | The wind freshened from astern off Rudha Reidh and we just managed to beat a south westerly gale into Loch Ewe where we were weatherbound for the next two days . |
| 24 | The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge . |
| 25 | Wolsey sent the fellow down to escort these strange guests up and we just sat watching the door . |
| 26 | Eventually through reasonably correct bid evaluation , we began to learn how to cost out inferior bids , when we had a very very low bid in we could see that certain things had been skimped , certain things might even have been missed out completely , and we then began to cost the effect of that on the organization . |
| 27 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 28 | And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic . |
| 29 | It was an opportunity for people to see the positive side of dog ownership , and we readily agreed to produce a team . |
| 30 | The children could not keep away from the railway , and they soon got to know the trains that passed by . |