Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
2 | That was my understanding and I got it right and discussed it with him |
3 | By the way , Jerry and I got it easy ; we just moved a chair or two if required . |
4 | And I got it wrong . |
5 | Well I know where my oh is that yours ? it 's in my overall pockets and I , I tell you what 's in the , in the thing with it , me petrol one and I had me premium punch put on there look . |
6 | And you carried on and I shot you dead I 'd get away with that . |
7 | You needed to have a good , full , thick crop of hair to plait in order to achieve this effect , and I thought it nice . |
8 | It was blue with a high red collar and I thought it cheap-looking and ugly . |
9 | We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful . |
10 | An action was instituted — the only libel action where I acted for Harold Wilson which came to court — and I thought it wise to brief a member of the Opposition to act as counsel on his behalf . |
11 | Well they were screaming , and I thought you stupid ! |
12 | ‘ And I dyed mine black , and my grey jumper purple , ’ Eve said . |
13 | Anyway , the point was that Fagg left me alone and I left him alone . |
14 | An orange circle of light , the beam from his torch , darted round the tent walls , there was the jingle of keys and I felt them cold in my hand . |
15 | Shortly after Dick took off in his P-40 , Bill Dodds and I joined him airborne in a T-6 . |
16 | That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know |
17 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
18 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
19 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
20 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
21 | The Alpha 's ability to delete a whole effect from a patch ( or add another ) is a godsend , and I found it useful to dispense with the equaliser , which worked for some sounds but definitely not for others . |
22 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
23 | School chairs tend to be even less comfortable than school beds , and I found it impossible to sit still for long — a fact which did n't endear me to irritable teachers , especially those who also resented my ‘ witty ’ ( i.e. irrelevant ) remarks . |
24 | I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness . |
25 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
26 | ( This was very strange for me and I found it hard to talk about . |
27 | ‘ My legs were very weak and I found it difficult to walk , ’ he said . |
28 | It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance . |
29 | During the war , when we were doing research on strong plastics , Professor Charles Gurney used to recite this little ditty to me nearly every day and I found it depressing because wood was in fact a better material for making aeroplanes than the plastics which we could then produce . |
30 | Yeah so you went for the C and you got it right it 's a good one |