Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I had better chances of getting a proper house for myself and my family which was then two daughters and my wife and I . |
| 2 | And I said well Carla will show you where to go cos she said is there anywhere to get to eat ? |
| 3 | yeah , well she bought some trainers for her little girl and she does n't want to show her , she did n't know what size to get so she took of it to see what size it was , and I said well Natalie 's a thirteen , that 'll be a thirteen if it fits her . |
| 4 | We 're driving down this road and I said well Pisa 's down here |
| 5 | Well fuck when I come back up he near had the fucking front door broke trying to get it open so that they 'd come in the front and I see the kitchen door 's closed and I just walked in and I said well John the dishes or nothing 's done if you wan na go and have a look because he would n't do them . |
| 6 | No I , I wanted built them wardrobes and I said now Monty whatever you fucking need I 'll get |
| 7 | And I went up centre with it . |
| 8 | and I stood there den of iniquity in here , with the three of them , and luckily she was n't paying attention , she went on to something else and they all looked at me and burst out laughing . |
| 9 | Holmes , the violinist , you know … and I rang up Tom on the off-chance that he 'd like to come . ’ |
| 10 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 11 | And I did n't canvas for him , I just marked up . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's just like a piano and so much so that we have n't even got one at home and I did n't practice on one before the competition I can just switch to playing it instead of a piano , ’ said Lisa . |
| 13 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
| 14 | He was in a room labelled " Managing Director " , and I wondered where Andrew Stavanger worked . |
| 15 | They stared at each other , and I wondered why Ward had thickened his native Glaswegian accent . |
| 16 | I had never known that world and I wondered how Olga felt , consigning me to it while she luxuriated in the house . |
| 17 | The range performed these duties , but with a certain reluctance , and I wondered how Otto would put up with a mere cup of water to shave in . |
| 18 | Nearby in Coire an Lochain , Brian Davison and I started up Daddy Longlegs and finished up Ventricle for a very hard route called Big Daddy ( VI ) . |
| 19 | Fascinated , I finally waylaid Dr Allott in the street one day , just after he 'd paid us a visit , and I plucked up courage to ask him what these strange words meant . |
| 20 | Despite this I had a lot of fun , until my mother replaced him with another pony that Brian could manage , and I gave up hunting . |
| 21 | It is the pantomime humour we all grew up with , where the compère talks about the organist 's big organ and his steamed up glasses . |
| 22 | It seems likely that the king profited directly from this by setting a charge for the conversion of currency : you brought in , say , West Saxon pennies containing 20 ounces of silver to the mint at Quentovic , and you got back pennies of Charles containing 19 ounces of silver . |
| 23 | It was not only the Junkers who misunderstood the processes at work and who felt both contempt and fear of the ‘ backward ’ Poles . |
| 24 | He strode about the drawing room restlessly , occasionally hitting the back of a chair with his hand , and she saw how pent-up were his energies . |
| 25 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 26 | The lamp-post that welcomed travellers to the inn had long lost its cursory flame , and she had neither candle nor lantern to light her way through the darkened streets . |
| 27 | Her disenchantment with the Foreign Office , already evident over Rhodesia and the EEC , came to a head during the Falklands War and she brought in Sir Anthony Parsons ( who had impressed her during the war when he was ambassador to the United Nations ) to advise on foreign affairs and appointed Roger Jackling to advise on defence . |
| 28 | Sometimes if there was an illness in the house the sick person would join in the prayers through the open doors but when the silence was not broken he nodded to Mona and she took up Rose 's Decade . |
| 29 | Lydia was n't smiling in her usual maddening way , but Betty thought she was ; and she thought perhaps Beuno was smiling too . |
| 30 | I picked up her pay packet once and she got just £45 for three nights ’ work . |