Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] and " in BNC.
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1 | I also removed a Building Society book in the name of Francis Maclean , which I reckoned had about £450 in the account , and an Access card in the same name which I rarely used and certainly had nearly a grand 's worth of credit on it . |
2 | Further points were discussed , for example the need for public liability insurance , which I duly went and arranged ; the need for ‘ Caution : Work in Progress ’ signs at each end , which I duly had made ; the need to take care , when working , not to disturb the kicking stones ; and the need to avoid making heaps when distributing the spoil , so as not to impede the grass cutter . |
3 | So I duly smeared and squeezed . |
4 | I was also given an indemnity form , which I duly completed and returned . |
5 | I knew in one case that every Saturday morning I would get a letter from a lad who was having a very trying time at an operational training unit , and he begged me week after week , I eventually relented and brought him back ; he nearly went through and completed a second Pathfinder tour . |
6 | I merely smiled and he got up , patting his face with his handkerchief , talking about the pollution of the water in London , about tests carried out and how soon everyone would have to boil drinking water first , it 's turning into a third-world city , he said , a third-world country , no one will admit it but England is turning into a third-world country . |
7 | At the centre of his treatise on society , as we once knew it , are upstanding noble politician Sir Robert Chiltern ( David Yelland ) and his terribly principled and adoring wife Gertrude ( Hannah Gordon ) . |
8 | I just shrugged and warned him to watch out , but he still did n't take any notice . |
9 | I just shrugged and lit a cigarette . |
10 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
11 | I never told you I just everything 's going round in the room I just had and make the best of it . |
12 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
13 | In the beginning I just hoped and prayed that it would be over next week . |
14 | So I just went and told my sister . |
15 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
16 | I just daydreamed and felt intensely happy . |
17 | She was so beautiful that I just melted and we went to this tiny little room , where she washed me . |
18 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
19 | His wife , Klara , declared : ‘ When I first met Laci [ Laszlo ] in 1965 , I just listened and listened . |
20 | ‘ He tried to make conversation but I just smiled and went on reading my book . ’ |
21 | I just smiled and said ‘ a little ’ — but I was hurt . |
22 | ‘ I just broke and ran — with Mac screaming for help . |
23 | I just sat and looked and looked . |
24 | ‘ I just sat and told Lindy I loved her . |
25 | ‘ I just sat and cried my eyes out . |
26 | I just turned and ran off . |
27 | I pretended something was wrong with the bed , and then I just turned and ran . |
28 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
29 | Friends I think I started writing in 1988 and I just worked and worked on it . |
30 | I could n't believe it , I just cried and cried . |