Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THOMPSON : ‘ The thing with Bill Shankly was that we were always a family and everyone knew each other from the cleaning lady to the girls in the ticket office .
2 Faith had disposed of the money and belongings as she chose and everyone had that right , at the very least .
3 Jerry looked up to me as his hero ; the rapport and affinity between him and me transcended all things ; with us it was true brotherly love , which exists to this day , with no ulterior motives … no payments … no conditions .
4 He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’
5 As Mr Charles , our chief male nurse and I passed each other on our way to and from the admission ward and our offices we had first one and then another sorry tale to tell .
6 Loud bangs started upstairs and I imagined all kinds of things were happening .
7 Well , I went home and I got another job and it , then I went back , I says can I have me card ?
8 and I got some fruit up the market on Friday .
9 there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life
10 pullover and I got those socks for Tony .
11 I said I 'll ha take one pair and er the lady 's called Irene , she 's had the shop for years and years mum always gets and I got those stockings for you
12 Anyhow I went out and I got this baby nest shawl thing
13 The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
14 The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely .
15 So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals .
16 And I noticed another thing : Jean-Claude was tetchy .
17 I thought the flysheet looked too short and I worried that rain would get into the inner .
18 It is eight months ago that Central Television and I raised this case .
19 Woke up one night and I heard this voice er ca n't remember what you said now no hey !
20 I just bi I went outside , I mean , I was gon na go outside five minutes before and not notice anything , and I went out five minutes later and I heard this water running .
21 Du n no , had to me Theresa were n't ready , did n't expect until eight o'clock , I thought yeah I 've got ten minutes , sitting in my bedroom drinking a cup of tea and I heard this bing
22 I lay there and I heard this zip go z-z-zip up , god someone 's coming in tent , tried to get in bed with us .
23 Whatever the objective truth of this assertion , it could have been formulated on purpose to infuriate me , and I denied both halves of it .
24 Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma .
25 Peggy Emerson and I tested this association .
26 really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ?
27 Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind
28 Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy .
29 I obviously understood this very well and I had all sorts of
30 As Anwar and I had these conversations Jamila liked to open the door to the store-room and just point the black barrel-ends of her eyes at me as if I were sitting with Eichmann .
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