Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I envied them their sexual freedom and their self-assured dignity , and I despised the British vice squads that ran them in and were not above enjoying their charms for a consideration .
2 To believe them , Karen and I shanghaied the shrinking Dennis on to a punt by some underhand ruse worthy of a ‘ once-aboard-the-lugger-and-the-maid-is-mine ’ melodrama .
3 He said that this would be unnecessary and I got the distinct impression that I should not ask any more questions about it but be content that I had got my letter back .
4 ‘ I was daft enough to say his plants looked healthy and I got the Ancient Mariner treatment ; a squirt-by-puff account of how he managed it .
5 and I got the midi hi-fi system .
6 It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost .
7 Old friends from the village were talking quietly among themselves , and I noticed the awful Pumblechook trying to catch my eye , as he drank brandy and swallowed large pieces of cake .
8 There was a loud burst of laughter behind me and I heard the Belgian clergyman exclaim : ‘ That is really heretical ! positively heretical ! ’ then laugh loudly himself .
9 And the heart-beat grew louder and louder and closer to my ear , and I heard the deep booming sound of the sea at its very deepest depths , where monsters live in total darkness and corpses of drowned sailors lie in coral dust .
10 There was one occasion when I was sitting in the kitchen and I heard the front door close , and then footsteps in the hall .
11 But I could see with my inner eye the form of my Lord Krishna , seated before Arjuna in the chariot on the battlefield of Kurukshetra , and I heard the sublime thoughts , and this filled my eyes with tears of joy and love . ' ’
12 The rest of the squad fell to one knee , and I heard the smart click of rifle bolts …
13 Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit .
14 Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this .
15 The idea stuck in my mind and I contacted the local NGS organiser , who suggested we open the following year .
16 SIR , — In 1988 , colleagues and I formed the Forensic Academic Group in the North ( FAGIN ) .
17 After drinks on the balcony overlooking some of the grass courts where members were playing , we had a delicious luncheon , and I had the great pleasure of sitting next to my charming French host Alain Boucheron .
18 I certainly did , and I had the magenta bum-bag to prove it .
19 money out there and I had the hundred quid that
20 And here we did see , by particular favour , the body of Queen Katherine of Valois ; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands , and I did kiss her mouth , reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queene , and this was my birthday , thirty-six years old , that I did kiss a Queene . ’
21 ‘ I would n't have liked to have known more about him , even though Hattie Jacques and I had the deepest philosophical discussions with him . ’
22 On a recent visit to New Zealand , my wife and I had the good fortune to meet up with Alf and Muriel Newton .
23 there 's a wee bairn been in the , in the , in the , my daughter was staying in , and I had the other two .
24 A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure .
25 She said : ‘ We had our Christmas Day on Boxing Day and I had the best ever Christmas with my children and grandchildren . ’
26 because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life .
27 Aunt Margaret and I had the aforementioned ‘ smokin chicken ’ £5.95 which turned out to be a huge half-bird smothered in a nasty synthetic tasting sauce , which I scraped off and replaced with the ketchup on the table .
28 At that point , rather late one night , he and I had the last of a long sequence of talks .
29 It was misty , and there was not a soul in sight , and I had the same eerie feeling which came over me sometimes in other parts of the village .
30 Stephen Conroy and I had the same tutor , Geoff Squires , and maybe he 's a model for our life drawing .
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