Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 2 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 3 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
| 4 | It was his birthday and I 'd planned this surprise party for him . |
| 5 | ‘ I came straight to Cochabamba with my family because we were lucky enough to have the money from my book and I 'd bought this land before leaving Bolivia in 1980 . |
| 6 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 7 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 8 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 9 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 10 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 11 | There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again . |
| 12 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 13 | After two weeks I felt better in myself and I had lost several pounds . |
| 14 | Fortunately , Trau Bishop and I had set that room up as a trap , knowing that your agent would n't be able to resist the bait . |
| 15 | ‘ Although Stevie and I had known each other for a while we had never been romantically involved . |
| 16 | At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year . |
| 17 | My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End . |
| 18 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 19 | Stephanie and I had married eight years ago , only four weeks after meeting in Los Angeles for the first time . |
| 20 | And she 'd had an abortion the night before and she 'd died that day on the Monday . |
| 21 | And she 'd got five wolf whistles . |
| 22 | And she 'd got modern ideas , and all — about married women being slaves , and what not — though to my way of thinking it 's always a toss-up which is the slave . |
| 23 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 24 | She was thirty-six when she cleared out and she 'd had three kids , but she still made younger women look and feel like there was no contest . ’ |
| 25 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 26 | He remembered a girl he had known once who used to say ‘ franchement ’ whenever she meant ‘ frankly ’ — rather a soupy girl , and far from frank , but consoling all the same on despairing Sundays , and she had made beautiful casseroles . |
| 27 | She said her name was Liz , she was a friend of the family , and she had done some nursing once , a long time ago , but gave it up to get married . |
| 28 | She also wanted to put an end to any sexual intercourse with her husband , though formerly both he and she had had great enjoyment from it . |
| 29 | Two of the most daring had been observed in the garden by Miss Watson , the headmistress , who lived across the green at the school-house , and she had delivered dire warnings during assembly the next morning . |
| 30 | How it had happened she did not know , but back there in New York he had begun to pursue her , and she had found ever-increasing opportunities to talk to him ; he was so gay and lively , quite unlike the rather stiff young men whom she met in New York and Newport society . |