Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 and I tried all weekend trying to get only there from five to seven , and I got him after five o'clock on Tuesday
2 The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand .
3 The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time .
4 SAD , disappointed and deeply frustrated : Lady Chatterley and I had plenty in common by the end of Sunday 's opening episode .
5 I felt that he and I had something in common .
6 I soon found that Bertha and I had nothing in common .
7 and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything .
8 One year new chain and I had it in that little on the tree ?
9 When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ?
10 I did n't do a lot of walkin' , except round the shops , and I treated meself to another 'ansom cab to bring me back .
11 We had a great trip and I met lots of other children . ’
12 My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed .
13 I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely .
14 I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years .
15 And I arranged it on that day at the time .
16 My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated .
17 And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter .
18 Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion .
19 Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time .
20 And I told them about this job I 'd done here .
21 You know , and I told you about that I 'm having my er done .
22 K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour .
23 And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case .
24 And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman .
25 she looks really weird without them on and I saw her like this
26 And I saw it before that , about , yeah about eight as well .
27 I was very happy there , not just because I 'd won but also because the crown was very nice to me and I saw lots of Portuguese people .
28 My sister and I put him to good use .
29 Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt .
30 I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford
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