Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I 'd lost half a stone in weight . |
| 2 | It was his birthday and I 'd planned this surprise party for him . |
| 3 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |
| 4 | And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder ! |
| 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 | to take cough and things like , and I nearly died the other night , I 'd taken one and I 'd taken some of this cough , |
| 7 | Both of them are rotten drivers and I 'd had enough painful experiences for one day . |
| 8 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 9 | And I 'd got all me bits , different books out preparing for the crucifixion . |
| 10 | Well by this time it was ten to eight and I 'd got all these members were going to be outside , I was going to have to let them in and serve them and I was getting a bit frantic you see . |
| 11 | And er what I did I got everything , you know the , I do n't think it was , and some warm water and I saw that my hands was well clean and I 'd got some very nice little silver spoons , only small ones . |
| 12 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 13 | We brought back four tail wheel struts complete with the tyres and axles and everything else on them and I got to weld this high-strength steel onto that carbon steel that was on the , the wheel and we wound up with a nice trailer with four B-Seventeen tail wheels on it . |
| 14 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 15 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 16 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |
| 17 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 18 | And I got to get some toilet roll . |
| 19 | And I had to say this in front of my mother who had to be present , which was even more degrading . |
| 20 | Jeremy Isaacs and I had know each other for a long time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | and I had to forbid all five of the children from looking . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And then when my wife died and I had to sell all you know it disa er I think er it got away with er some old stuff you know . |
| 25 | Joe and I had seen this happen many times before . |
| 26 | After two weeks I felt better in myself and I had lost several pounds . |
| 27 | And that was all copper , and I had to clean that every morning with a kind of paste ; and to do all the stairs and landings , and the rooms downstairs . |
| 28 | And I had to merge all these pictures together . |
| 29 | And I had to play several different instruments as well . |
| 30 | 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 . |