Example sentences of "and [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professors realized that I was doing very important work , and so they gave me my own laboratory . |
| 2 | I thought it was a bit of a cheek seeing as I 'm due here mornings but I 've nothing against Mrs. Schofield and if she wanted me I was n't above obliging . |
| 3 | She would need such care and gentleness , and if it killed him he would give it to her , but the passion was raging in him until he could hardly see straight . |
| 4 | I should be able to find that , even in the dark , and if I followed it I should stumble over the painter , or the dinghy herself . |
| 5 | ‘ And if I gave you one , would you take her ? ’ |
| 6 | Er the Doctor provided the medicine and if he visited you it was seven and sixpence each visit , and if you went to his surgery , I think it was four an either four and six , or three and six . |
| 7 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 8 | and if you washed them you must n't put clothes pegs in them cos the pegs would make holes in them |
| 9 | just whatever one come up first you went for the interview and if you answered it you just took it . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't come the old acid with me , ’ said his better half , ‘ you ai n't seen any bloke about a job since Noah built the Ark , and if anyone offered you one you 'd fall down dead . |
| 11 | ‘ The trouble is we are Viz and if anyone bought it they 'd probably want us as part of a package . |
| 12 | Just the same as he loved this woman of Samaria , and because he loved her he wanted to communicate with her , he wanted to share with her , he had something for her . |
| 13 | ‘ He is not my father , ’ it said , ‘ and since you married him I do n't think of you as my mother . ’ |
| 14 | She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater . |
| 15 | Sound of the train getting closer and before I knew it I was out on that street pushing the trolley . |
| 16 | I went to see what he wanted and before I knew it I was bundled into the car and we were on our way home . |
| 17 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 18 | No , he replied , and before he knew it his hosts , oblivious of his religious upbringing , had offered this sacrament to him . |
| 19 | Now — you woke up with a sense of relief and surprise that you were still there , you got up , brushed your teeth , and before you knew it you were watching television . |
| 20 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |
| 21 | Then she saw the dress , and before she knew it she was trying it on . |
| 22 | I was n't gay , and when somebody asked me I 'd say , ‘ No , I 'm not ’ , which was the truth . |
| 23 | There were some trees below them , and when they reached them he slowed , she followed suit , and then he swished to a halt . |
| 24 | But there were five of them there one day in the porch and when they saw me they gathered up their bottles and began to go , except one . |
| 25 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 26 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |
| 27 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 28 | Now this is where you come in erm and this is where we 've we 've done something which er we think is quite clever , this here is the back facade of Barley Hall and when we got it it was not medieval at all , there was no timber framing left , it was just this this er brick here , so we did n't want to fake it up to look medieval on the outside . |
| 29 | ‘ We removed the chocolate Flake bars and when we opened them they looked perfect . |
| 30 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |