Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cumbria is rugby league mad and everyone wants to see this match . |
| 2 | Our priority all along has been to win the League and nothing has altered that . ’ |
| 3 | A Soviet statement three days later made it ‘ absolutely clear ’ that the proposal of the EEC states ‘ can not serve as a basis for talks and no-one intends to hold such talks with them ’ . |
| 4 | I mean , we all wrote loads and loads of stuff saying what a drag housework was , how trapped women were in their kitchens , but no-one 's analysed it before , and no-one 's had any ideas about what to do about it . |
| 5 | and I 'd lost half a stone in weight . |
| 6 | It was his birthday and I 'd planned this surprise party for him . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 , |
| 11 | Both of them are rotten drivers and I 'd had enough painful experiences for one day . |
| 12 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 13 | And I 'd got all me bits , different books out preparing for the crucifixion . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 18 | I only wanted to tell you I 'm really interested in the Foundling babies and I hope to visit some of them for my husband . |
| 19 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 20 | I shall definitely be at the airport to meet you and I hope to have some startling and important news to give you in person . |
| 21 | My favourite subject has always been English , and I hope to study this at university . |
| 22 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 23 | So Ollie had to change his passport and hand up another passport and I remember saying this guy plays in the big leagues . |
| 24 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 25 | I 'm outgoing , I enjoy being active and I like to spend most of my time — when I 'm not studying marine biology — scuba diving . |
| 26 | Oh yes varied , and there interesting , with , with children , particularly if they erm if I 'm doing workshops er with art and writing workshops and we come across an abstract picture , the children music , and , we , as a way into their vocabulary which is n't as large as their , their writing skills , and there 'll , there 'll decipher an abstract picture , wonderful language and I like doing that you know |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |