Example sentences of "and i [verb] [adv prt] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 2 | I left home at half-past nine and I got back about half-past ten . ’ |
| 3 | And I walked along back and front , back and front like that and I said oh I do n't know . |
| 4 | And I went on down . |
| 5 | We examined the corpse and I went up on to the parapet . ’ |
| 6 | But he countered : ‘ The supporter was saying terrible things to me and I went back up the tunnel because I wanted to have a good look at the face of the person who was abusing me . |
| 7 | And I went back down to bed and I got up again at five , went back there then the baby wake up at seven so I come up and stayed up . |
| 8 | I jumped off a cliff and I came back up again no , er , watch a bit of |
| 9 | I jumped off a cliff and I came back up again no , er , watch a bit of |
| 10 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 11 | The Mau Maus joined in the laughter and I sat back down , feeling better . |
| 12 | and I opened up back |
| 13 | Davis and I climbed back up to the road together . |
| 14 | Allan Scuffle ( or scuffling Allan ) gave me a frank grin and handshake , and I wandered back down to the Liffey . |