Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was late in the day and nothing had led up to it . |
| 2 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |
| 3 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 4 | I sling a few carcasses to prowling cats , and I get told off for it . |
| 5 | So it 's unusual and I get told off for giving you a choice but what do you think ? |
| 6 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 7 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 8 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 9 | He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch . |
| 10 | Yes , Sally says we 'll do it , we 'll change it in the car alright , just as I was saying we had erm , we had roast dinner , Charlotte do n't aggravate him , we had roast lamb , erm and I 'd washed up by two o'clock |
| 11 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 12 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 13 | But er I did two or three hundred , four hundred , five hundred a day and I got fed up on it and I said to the gaffers one day , if you do n't change me from this job I 'm leaving , so they says oh we do n't want you to do that , best filer we 've had . |
| 14 | Gradually , from the toe , that was July , and I got paralysed up to my hips and er I had no relations or anybody there , but Toc H were very good . |
| 15 | And I got told off for it . |
| 16 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 17 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |
| 18 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |
| 19 | No , hold on , and I 've turned up with the wrong one . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've lived here all my life , Mr Wycliffe , and I 've grown up with such tales ; nobody takes them seriously . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I had n't forgotten , and I 've come round to being sorry that you do , but as it 's unlikely that the hatred is going to change , and since we both know that this is ultimately inevitable , it might as well happen now . ’ |
| 22 | Since then I 've been thinking it over and I 've come up with an idea . |
| 23 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 24 | Joanne had handled the set-up of the press conference in Glasgow and I had gone on to Newcastle Airport to meet the plane there . |
| 25 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 26 | Mike Powell was handing over to me and in the general melee of the race he had run out of his box and I had run out of my lane , so we were disqualified twice ! |
| 27 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 28 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 29 | Hilda and he were in London on a spree , Viola and I had come out of the theatre for the interval — Noel Coward , Rattigan . |
| 30 | This was a need that Pat Bateson , Gabriel Horn and I had hammered out in many long discussions about our imprinting experiments , and which we had tried to meet in practice in the design of the controls we had used in the early 1970s . |