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 .
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