Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 's like a big pallet all surrounded and he got a big pond down the bottom it 's erm near Grimston Common |
| 2 | cos time was going on and I thought well just watch that , I knew you wanted it taped and I thought time were going on |
| 3 | She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college . |
| 4 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 5 | It was ten years since Jacklin had won and they 'd adopted Seve . |
| 6 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 7 | He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her . |
| 8 | It was all but won and she felt at peace . |
| 9 | The coffee at the cafe had perked him up long enough to tackle the reviews but then heat and alcohol had won and he had nodded off . |
| 10 | If she enquired , he merely said he was going walking and he did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 11 | It was as they approached the gates that Joe pointed away to the left and towards the hills where a man was walking and he cried excitedly , ‘ There 's Mick ! ’ |
| 12 | And on your belt , when you 're walking and you had a a lamp hook , which was got a very sharp spike on it you see , and when you was working er shovelling , you 'd stick it in a prop you see ? |
| 13 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 14 | In November , I wrote to him pointing that the formal period for consultation was ending and I asked when we might hear his response to the Green Paper . |
| 15 | On the dashboard in front of him the radio crackled and he picked it up . |
| 16 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 17 | Angelina 's voice made him jump and he forgot all about Pretty Polly , and all about his chances of sneaking away from the Canterbury trip tomorrow to see the second day of the Kent versus Australia match . |
| 18 | So so when he 'd done it he said well two hundred and fifty quid I heard him and he said but I suppose you know the of it oh I do n't know and he said why did n't you do it ? |
| 19 | Listen for a guy I do n't know and he did , he does |
| 20 | We could see people You know , why that would be I do n't know and I thought possibly |
| 21 | I do n't blooming know and I thought if a seven comes up and I 've got five and six and |
| 22 | She come up behind me look she did n't know and I said oh do n't fret my love . |
| 23 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 24 | he was in bed with her and she and no she pushed her husband and of course he turned over naturally , he were n't , he did n't know and she pushed him again and he tied them up there , took all their jewellery off of them |
| 25 | He let it fall and they ran down through the field after Caspar . |
| 26 | And of course they go up here beautiful and I was going to take this apple and they 're all gon na fall and I got to that , Jesus it just about . |
| 27 | When a young boy , overcome with curiosity , stepped out and prodded the dog 's mouth with a stick , he was grabbed by the arm and hauled back roughly : and when a dog began idly sniffing the body , someone kicked out and shouted and it lurched away through the crowd . |
| 28 | ‘ Kelly , ’ I shouted and she turned round and shrieked , ‘ Annie , darling ’ , and we tried to fall into each other 's arms . |
| 29 | Her colour deepened and she bit her lip and looked down at her plate . |
| 30 | God , he was so gorgeous … her hands were moving on to his strong thoat , thrusting into his black hair , she was losing her head again as the kiss deepened and she heard him give a low growl of harsh excitement , his mouth increasing the pressure until Rachel was obliterated by him , dazed , clutching him with shaking hands , gasping hoarsely against his mouth , feeling his strong hands move swiftly up to her breasts to stroke her nipples and force a long hoarse cry of exquisite desire from her . |