Example sentences of "[prep] and [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , for about two years you know after and everybody went to something or other . |
| 2 | So I says , oh I says , saying what they were and she said , oh , she said , and I 've got some mugs Auntie Elsie bought you and a bit after and she said , she said , there 's them four mugs for Angela . |
| 3 | As they approached Jerusalem near the towns of and they came to the of olives , Jesus have decided ahead . |
| 4 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 5 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 6 | I wanted no children of my own , not because I disliked them , although I did — my step-sister and brother were the only small children I had experience of and they aroused no feelings in me but exasperation and distaste — but because I did n't want to be a mother with the weight of life and death on me . |
| 7 | But she spoke of and she kept speaking about him being |
| 8 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 9 | I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong . |
| 10 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 11 | These birds come from America , so they are difficult to get hold of and I had the added problem that I was looking at the end of the breeding season . |
| 12 | The first two of those were also included were made public , they are in the issue 's papers it did not make public the county council 's proposal as to who should be participants for each topic since those were matters for the the panel er to ma take a view of and I understood er from er the question er the answer to the question that it had been made clear that er the information had been made public except as always Chairman , er our legal office 's of the council always like that caveat that in case anything had been missed out I had just in fact suggested that perhaps not everything had been made public so I anticipated a possible supplementary question from Mr . |
| 13 | I was working and all of a sudden and one the woman began to sing Rock of Ages in a loud voice and then the man joined in and I sort of thought I heard sort of and I thought oh , they 've got a bottle which they 've taken out of their pockets which they were passing from side to side . |
| 14 | and then that 's a fiver , and then you 've got the worry of and you got you got to go shops because when it 's so hot things go stale you 've got to have |
| 15 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 16 | He discussed any issue , and particularly this one , with everyone he could think of and he continued to show throughout his political career an indecision that in some directions had dire consequences . |
| 17 | Brought quite a lot of And he brought the gramophone with him you know . |
| 18 | We asked the sultan what all these festivities were in aid of and he said : " Did n't you realize this is your welcome ceremony ? |
| 19 | And he , and I remember ah , er er , I mean I was only , well I was sort of and he had his feet up on the table , he was smoking a cigarette and he , and he had a laid back attitude . |
| 20 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
| 21 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 22 | And our er workshop was open for and they got every assistance and every help from my father in these days . |
| 23 | The film was everything they had hoped for and they loved every minute of it . |
| 24 | We knew what we were looking for and we knew if we looked long enough and hard enough we would find it , but there were times when we thought perhaps it is n't out there . |
| 25 | When his initial interest waned , the teacher paid no more attention to him : ‘ Then I realized what he was interested in me for and we ended up just walking past each other , completely ignoring each other . ’ |
| 26 | Well I was just the one sitting there waiting for and nothing came |
| 27 | Unfortunately , his calf muscle was done for and he had to be substituted by the senior linesman . |
| 28 | Sir Emmanuel was not an easy man to work for and you had to watch what you said . |
| 29 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
| 30 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |