Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perkin knew it was I who had remembered that the floorboards should have floated , and on Monday he 'd seen the plank on the dining-room table and heard Doone and me talking in close private consultation . |
| 2 | I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire . |
| 3 | I 'm ninety three now and I go in this back yard do something every time . |
| 4 | This column has been set aside for the punchcard machines , but I 'm not forgetting that some of you have manual machines and I hope in future issues in to include something for you from time to time . |
| 5 | The first weekend in September should be a closed date and I hope in future years the folly of playing games on national finals day will not be repeated . |
| 6 | But without your support and your demonstrations and support from whites in other countries with the rugby demonstrations , the cricket , with all aspects that you 've done , you 've also contributed to making it easier for us to be the kind of people we would like to be and I hope in that way we therefore do share as a family and then try and create one world . |
| 7 | And I did use it once and I got in such a temper ! |
| 8 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 9 | And I mean in nineteen sixty five such a job would cost te about eleven to fifteen pounds which was an anas astronomical amount of money in those days , simply because the man who had the firm had an A licence , or four or five of them , and he was in a mon a monopolistic position you see . |
| 10 | The anger among Asian teenagers which Geeta and I noticed in 1974 has of course since then led to Asian boys hitting back . |
| 11 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 12 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |
| 13 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 14 | Time was getting short and I ran in this awful heat to the nearest Underground , waited ages for a train , and then had an interminable journey into London . |
| 15 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 16 | And I came in one day a few days ago an and running around like a bee on heat with erm cries of oh I 've got so much to do and no time left in which to do it and I went ha I said yes , if you got up early , you know ! |
| 17 | The World squad matches in New Zealand were great and I felt in fine fettle there but after injury in Australia it has been quite a struggle . |
| 18 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 19 | My face was tingling with fear and I felt in imminent need of a toilet-roll . |
| 20 | And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . |
| 21 | He was a strong young man , and I delighted in that strength : he once signed a letter to me ‘ Your wild boy of Aveyron ’ . |
| 22 | My aunt had a dancing school for many , many years and I appeared in all her plays , and at school I appeared in school plays and I was very proud when I played Robin Hood . |
| 23 | It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things . |
| 24 | It matters a great deal , and I want in this chapter to sketch out some of the implications of this inviolable link which the New Testament writers make between Jesus and the Spirit . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , ’ Mick and I answered in simultaneous relief . |
| 26 | Laura and I sat in tense silence , listening to the creak of the stairs . |
| 27 | The wind was strong and bitterly cold as we prepared ourselves and I tried in vain to put my boots on without leaving the car , until I cracked my forehead on someone 's ice-axe in the back seat . |
| 28 | But unfortunately the parting of the ways had to come and I worked in another wee shop er down in Albert Street in Leith . |
| 29 | I could get myself into trouble with a colleague of yours in another town but er I am hopeful , so as I say , er on the seventeenth of January then we could be returning to the situation and I understand in nineteen seventy four when there was a sergeant and six constables here in until the demise of the Urban District Council when they were all moved to . |
| 30 | ‘ And I understand in this district we have the highest pay-outs of social security , ’ he added . |