Example sentences of "[vb past] [interj] and [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Guaranteed the best fun you could have in a London pub , unless George Michael reformed Wham and chose the Fulham Greyhound to warm-up for their comeback world tour .
2 I waved goodbye and went round the corner to the wines and spirits .
3 Near here the student hopped out , waved goodbye and disappeared up a side lane .
4 Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables .
5 Anderson chuckled goodbye and crashed on through the bushes , clink-clink-clinking in search of another rabbit hole .
6 Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village .
7 I quickly said no and asked Jammie if I could tell Helen what was happening .
8 She said yes and went to dress , stepping around the bag without commenting on it .
9 I said yes and said the prayer of repentance and commitment which he prayed with me .
10 I said yes and gave it to him .
11 He took his glass back to the bar glancing at his wristwatch as a reason for not buying another said good-night and ambled towards the street .
12 He said goodbye and went back by the road .
13 Hob and Jack said goodbye and went down to the boats too .
14 Penny and her Second , Sylvia , talked about it all the way to the corner where Sylvia turned off for home , and Penny only remembered her lost budgie again when Sylvia said goodbye and added : ‘ I do hope you find Kelpie soon , Penny . ’
15 ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’
16 They said goodbye and returned to the car .
17 When the party had started , Elizabeth and I said goodbye and left for our honeymoon .
18 After the story was finished , Nosheen and Simeen said goodnight and disappeared upstairs to bed .
19 I said goodnight and went to my own room where I found the sleeping-car attendant had duly lowered my bed and laid a chocolate truffle on the pillow .
20 Soon the lawyer said goodnight and went home to bed , where he lay awake for a long time thinking about Enfield 's description of Hyde , and Doctor Jekyll 's will .
21 He quickly said goodnight and went to his room .
22 The two of them stayed sitting and talking in the kitchen for an hour or so longer , and then , at about six o'clock , Matilda said goodnight and set out to walk home to her parent 's house , which was about an eight-minute journey away .
23 Dora accepted these ministrations without protest , but Melissa thought she detected a growing restiveness and a thinly veiled relief when at last they said goodnight and returned to their own room .
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