Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends I think I started writing in 1988 and I just worked and worked on it . |
| 2 | I am at a loss to explain this contradiction , as Gubby and I both accepted and talked about our next-door-neighbour relationship in later life . |
| 3 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |
| 4 | I was alone in the darkness in one of those old-fashioned six seater compartments , and I neither knew nor had any means of knowing whether my family was alive or dead . |
| 5 | I always saw myself as a creator of space for particular needs , and I found the best ideas which fitted in with that need and that slot and I then encouraged and challenged and stimulated and created the space for that production team to make that programme in the best possible way . |
| 6 | And I flipping smoked and drank all the way through . |
| 7 | ‘ He threw you in and you either sank or swam . ’ |
| 8 | She barked when I first went round there and she just shook and shook so |
| 9 | Her limbs seemed lifeless , and she never spoke or uttered a sound . |
| 10 | say to th this chap you know but we just happened to mention in passing to Jeanette and she really jumped and said oh Pat did n't smoke a lot . |
| 11 | It made her feel as if he still had some sort of claim over her , and she really hated and resented that . |
| 12 | There was one moment when someone proposed ‘ I think we should have a facilitator for this bit , ’ and we just listened and passed it by , on with our own journey into the delicious unknown . ’ |
| 13 | The trouble with these schemes is that insufficient thought was given to what they were supposed to achieve , and they inevitably perpetuated and reinforced the view of ‘ otherness ’ . |
| 14 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
| 15 | I could n't be bothered to go to the toilet and they always came and changed me . |
| 16 | Among friends and neighbours a farm worker 's skill was appreciated and he neither knew nor cared about the reputation of farm workers outside . |
| 17 | ‘ Tomorrow 's always another day , ’ she said , trotting out one of her many sayings , and he neither smiled nor mocked at her , but went downstairs to eat the supper which she had prepared for him , because that was the way she showed him her love and concern , and the least which he could do was respond to it . |
| 18 | ‘ Vinnie is only a football player , and he just went and did something which , ideally , he should not have done . |
| 19 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 20 | Um Thomas Carlisle um wen was very much impressed by the work of people like Wordsworth and Coleridge because they were just a bit before him and he actually went and met Coleridge . |
| 21 | Always a determined character , he gave up alcohol and smoking the day he pulled on his running shoes , and he quickly found that running long distances was his forte , and that it provided a challenge to fit his temperament . |
| 22 | Its support had been visibly waning , and it now collapsed and found itself suspended or abolished in the republics . |
| 23 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |