Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you move about much in here when you came in and realised you 'd had an intruder ? ’ |
| 2 | Klaus Kabelitz , duty manager at the Inn on the Park , said : ‘ Police came in and said they had received an alert with a bona fide code . |
| 3 | ‘ Then , this morning the girl-friend came in and said she wanted to change her statement . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't go out again until Ken stormed in and said he 'd found Nicola . ’ |
| 5 | She had bunked off work all this week , Joanie had rung in and said she had ‘ flu ’ , and every day had been spent like this . |
| 6 | On the Monday , the bulldozer moved in and turned what had been a rough path into a track about 8 feet wide . |
| 7 | ‘ Neil Kinnock never came in and look what happened to him . ’ |
| 8 | Cos I 'm not gon na go in and get it ruined . |
| 9 | So they said I had to come in and get it syringed . |
| 10 | Subsequently when I got back down and realised we 'd done it , and everyone had got off the mountain and no-one had been injured , I had an immense feeling of satisfaction , just of having stood there . |
| 11 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 12 | You wo n't want to extricate yourself from a personal promise or commitment , but you will begin to feel tied down and wish you 'd never got involved in the first place . |
| 13 | He looked down and saw he had battered his fingers bloody against the wooden lid . |
| 14 | ‘ One minute we were apparently coasting home at 3-0 up , the next we were 4-3 down and wondering what had hit us . |
| 15 | I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing . |
| 16 | It was only discovered because somebody left a film camera running on an aquarium in which these fish were present and they noticed a blur and when the film was slowed down and analyzed it turned out that this was happening , that a little sneak was going in , instantly ejaculating , and zooming out . |
| 17 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
| 18 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 19 | ‘ A steward standing some 40 yards away rushed over and said he saw me making an obscene gesture . |
| 20 | And he came over and took me did n't he ? |
| 21 | Even when Allen came on and scored it did n't make any difference . |
| 22 | At this point you have got to say something interesting or else the conversation will pass on and leave you isolated once more . |
| 23 | We then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity . |
| 24 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 25 | ‘ Could we simply take an armful out to the treadmills and put them on and see what happened ? |
| 26 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 27 | And it 's a bit like that , and what happens , ’ and they go , went on and explained what happened and why it was interesting , and in particular why , by doing this , you could come up with an X-ray source which can help cure cancer , and can do scans in a way which you ca n't do by other methods . |
| 28 | Kevin gets picked on and look what happened to him . |
| 29 | When you backed off and said you wanted to sleep , I was so disappointed ! |
| 30 | ‘ Gary is enjoying his time off and said he did n't miss the gruelling work that the lads did in training . ’ |