Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 2 | Yeah Carrie went and as she , as she left he patted her on the bum which is , you know , a bit friendly and I said to Jess well look , put it this way , cos she 's really , she flirts a lot |
| 3 | or through the shower then in the swimming pool then back again and when I 'd finished with it I went straight upstairs to my room and I went to sleep straight away , it was lovely . |
| 4 | And I went to bed about twenty past ten . |
| 5 | Both ‘ Dolly ’ and I went to bed early , and said many prayers . |
| 6 | Well , and I went to Ipswich well it must have been just after the war then |
| 7 | So some of us went to Victoria Falls and I went to Durban where I had some relatives and attended the July Handicap , the only horse race in the world that runs through the streets . |
| 8 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 9 | I was obsessed with being flat-chested and unglamorous and I used to harp on about how he must be hankering for someone more glamorous . ’ |
| 10 | Henry and I travelled to Edinburgh together , and then I went further north , to find a good place for my laboratory . |
| 11 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |
| 12 | They both liked it , and began going out together for about a month until he left to do summer stock in Fishkill , NY , and she went to Philadelphia where she was chosen as a principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet . |
| 13 | And she explained to Sarah how they and the Thorntons had been married in the same month in 1839 and had all four spent that Christmas together . |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , and we had to fork out fags for the water . |
| 15 | and we went to bed anyway |
| 16 | John came around to my flat after work one day , one thing led to another and we went to bed together . |
| 17 | And then it stopped and they went to Stronsay then . |
| 18 | The McKays qualified and married in Edinburgh and then left to work in London for a short time before travel beckoned and they went to work firstly in Papua New Guinea and then in Lusaka , Zambia . |
| 19 | After that there was a good meal of mutton stew and Aunt Sarah 's feather-light dumplings ( none of which anyone could eat ) and they went to bed early . |
| 20 | No one called that evening , and they went to bed early . |
| 21 | In World War II , when German bombing destroyed the Swire head office in the City , Swire moved his entire staff to his mother 's house in Harlow and they commuted to London together . |
| 22 | John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable . |
| 23 | After lunch he formed the Italian habit of taking a siesta and he went to bed early . |
| 24 | In 1961 he took off for New York city to pay his respects to his latest hero , hobo and folk singer Woody Guthrie , then dying of Huntington 's Chorea ; and he returned to Minneapolis later that year a-singing and a-playing , mumbling and slurring his words , just like Woody himself . |
| 25 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 26 | What connection could there possibly be between him and what happened to Roland so long ago ? ’ |