Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] for " in BNC.
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1 | I did n't know him very well and I despised him for being well behaved and creeping around telling stories about me . |
2 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
3 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
4 | I washed them trainers our Johnny given me and I cleaned them for him to try and save and then them black shoes for school to save his boots for the |
5 | However I might be able to get erm the copy that I Eddie 's copy is n't entirely legal erm and I got it for him . |
6 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
7 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
8 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
9 | Back then I think my girlfriends and I took it for granted that washing regularly was an exclusively feminine pursuit . |
10 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
11 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
12 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
13 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
14 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
15 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
16 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
17 | And my brothers used to ride it , so I used to ride it and I rode it for miles ! |
18 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
19 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
20 | If I remember rightly it was called ‘ My Kitchen Window ’ and I liked it for its succinct simplicity and the fact that it rang true . |
21 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
22 | But he came and sorted me out and I asked , I said I 'll see what I can do and I got hold of it and I did it for him . |
23 | He fumbled a packet from the pocket of his anorak and I lit one for him with the dashboard lighter . |
24 | and I snogged him for it . |
25 | My anxiety had returned , and I hated him for being so happy . |
26 | And I bought one for my friend 's daughter for ten pounds . |
27 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
28 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
29 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
30 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |