Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to . |
| 2 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 3 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 4 | ‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly . |
| 5 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |
| 6 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 7 | And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in . |
| 8 | And if they wanted him to be boring then that would be the performance that he would offer . |
| 9 | So we 're just adding the conductances again , and if we did it with three of , we had sort of three pipes |
| 10 | Two hundred and fifty five , and if we did it to he 's absolutely right , erm then this one should have given his bearing as two fifty three minus seventy , which comes to , what does that come to ? |
| 11 | and if we paid it before the end of January |
| 12 | And if she told them of her world , they , in turn , made her free in theirs . |
| 13 | Er , and if I said it about any television programme you had watched . |
| 14 | and if you got it through this gold card there was another five percent off so or something like that off . |
| 15 | And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo . |
| 16 | My old gran did n't bother with recipes and if anybody asked her for one she 'd say ‘ Oh , I do n't bother wi' them things . |
| 17 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 18 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 19 | I have just bought a Wood catfish , but I can not find any information on it and since I introduced it to my tank , I 've never seen it . |
| 20 | There was about her something inhuman , and while I saw her as fey rather than remote , I was aware of my own inhumanity : something in me which was arid and incapable of desire . |
| 21 | ‘ Knowledge , ’ he insisted lightly , ‘ I have to confess that I still find you an unusual and delightful companion — an astonishingly beautiful young woman ; and while I watched you in Wexford market I felt — drawn . |
| 22 | He had picked her up half-conscious , and while he carried her to the hospital she had clung to him with a pitiful force . |
| 23 | I 've seen her several times and before you rang me at the theatre , she had promised to find out where you were and tell me . ’ |
| 24 | It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back . |
| 25 | And when one made it to the centre circle and started his own sit-in , to Speedie that was like a red rag to a bull . |
| 26 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 27 | And when they banned me from playing cricket for a month , they actually did me a favour . |
| 28 | And when they rang me about the killing and somebody said , ‘ your friend 's been murdered , ’ I said , ‘ You 're talking rubbish . ’ ’ |
| 29 | These I knew well were not what her whim had remembered , and when I brought them to her she said nothing , but put them aside , sadly shaking her head . |
| 30 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |