Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Everybody came in and told her all their stories .
2 But er somebody was in and left it all filthy and mouldy and what for !
3 Somebody gave him a brush and paints one time and he started in and got it better than any of them , oh my word he did .
4 I went in and got it all .
5 The FO chap knew all about it , of course , and any time things looked like coming off the boil he dived in and assured us this could be the biggest coup since the Zimmerman telegram .
6 ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ?
7 It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength .
8 The farmer 's wife invited us in and gave us cheesy , potato turnovers — it would not be polite to refuse .
9 Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams .
10 He told us to sit down and served us vinegar-tasting wine .
11 Would he really let rhinoceroses out of cages so they charged people in the suburbs and trampled them down and ate them alive ?
12 The nurse came down and gave me some medicine which totally knocked me out .
13 they announce in the room we are from video such and such , you know and just looked at me , this black man explained everything to everybody else and then the guy went over and sat down and explained it all again just blind
14 I 've had the front hub off and checked it all , renewing the gasket but still it seems to be losing oil.l hope you can help as I do n't really want to get the garage to sort it out as it will cost a small fortune .
15 Marc slid it off and trailed it all the way back along her inner arm as he withdrew his own .
16 when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down
17 and , he 'd got her up and got her ready and sent her out and said he would n't come .
18 there were one or two lads in our unit who were sons of er , of er manufacturing , one was er Crawford Biscuits you know , I soldiered with him and I do n't know if you remember er erm , er but anyway , Frank , Frank at Keighley of course when I got , when we got married he , he came up and got us these blankets did n't he ?
19 Two agents ran up and shot him dead .
20 Er , no what happened , my sister came up and brought her two kids in the afternoon
21 He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 .
22 When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here .
23 I was full stretch on top of his grace when the eyelids rolled up and showed me two white lights .
24 She put her arms up and held him close to her .
25 She completely ignored her husband until he fell asleep in his chair , whereupon she woke him up and berated him all the way up the stairs , their shouting and swearing affecting the children not one iota .
26 He said , with great politeness , that he would be in the buttery , always supposing anyone wanted to know , and Tybion the Tusk got up and helped him open the door , just to be friendly .
27 Adam stood up and gave her another hug .
28 Maybe she tied him up and gave him soft whip .
29 she says but she come out and got her wee one in the car and not David and the wee , the other wee boy into the car and left Michelle or Ashley standing there and drove off .
30 Is n't it time that Silver sorted things out and got us some money to buy players even if it means bringing in another board member .
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