Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] [vb past] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As expected , many people were willing to support my sponsored ‘ push ’ and I soon filled both sides of my sponsorship form . |
| 2 | And I actually made some notes . |
| 3 | I always tried to understand the man and I never had any problems with him . |
| 4 | We never went to the pictures and I never had any pictures on the wall . |
| 5 | And the light room the machine case where the machine for revolving the five the lens which er weighed about five tons and there were this machine revolved the lens and it was machine was solid brass erm just which had to be polished e e every week and er oh beautiful brass polished brass and nobody ever saw these things you know except maybe the commissioners when they came round no no visitors there . |
| 6 | She had a round face , round eyes which she rolled and raised to the ceiling while she spake ( spoke was too mundane a term for her pronouncements ) and she invariably began these pronouncements with ‘ Whooo — ’ to which Jane mentally added ‘ To-whit-too-whoo ’ , and concluded that there must be an owl species called Shurll . |
| 7 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 8 | There were shutters inside each window and they too resisted all efforts to break them down . |
| 9 | He made annual visits to Spain and Portugal in connection with his business and he normally lived several months a year in London . |
| 10 | Maza had gained a high reputation for leading the fight against " narco-terrorism " over the previous six years and he also claimed several successes in rescuing the kidnap victims of the drug cartels . |
| 11 | To gain and maintain his hold over the Company Sulivan had to become a formidable politician and he inevitably made many enemies . |
| 12 | Bordeaux was described as a ‘ commune , by John in 1206 and it clearly possessed many rights of self-government . |
| 13 | I had witnessed Sam emptying that box many times , and it always contained several pounds , a fortune in those days . |