Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes met his and she immediately dropped her gaze , colouring slightly . |
| 2 | The media often presented Jones ' results as supporting those of the two chemists whereas in due course , if not already , his work will be seen as the first refutation of the some of their claims ; his neutrons were orders of magnitude below theirs and he never made any direct measurements of heat . |
| 3 | On Monday we was in Camden and me and someone else did some prick over we smash his face in and cut him up . |
| 4 | ‘ The price tag worried me and I badly wanted to repay the faith Palace had shown in me . |
| 5 | As I said , I 'd no idea he was the one who was threatening me and I simply thought I was well shot of him , quite frankly . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway he fucking pushed me and I fucking pushed him . |
| 7 | Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief . |
| 8 | And there 's loads of people round about me and I just went wurgh ! |
| 9 | ‘ But as soon as we got to the line I realised he was going to keel over with me and I just hopped off in time . |
| 10 | For the first time ever , my pride got the better of me and I desperately looked round for some means of defending myself . |
| 11 | People that I have known through the years in the music business always knew where to find me and I never moved address . |
| 12 | I suppose it amuses me and I never needed to be amused before , not when he was here to do it . |
| 13 | I needed them as much as they needed me and I happily took the rough with the smooth . |
| 14 | ‘ A midwife went through it all with me and I actually asked her to reassure me that nothing I was doing could harm my own baby , ’ she remembers . |
| 15 | Something changed in me and I suddenly felt very scared , but Keith said do n't worry about a thing , I 'll take care of you . |
| 16 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 17 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 18 | Running behind him just seemed effortless and when I kicked he did n't go with me and he gradually dropped back as I kept the pace up . ’ |
| 19 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 20 | But they had all their equipment with them and they just stood on the deck and underneath below deck were the people who rowed the boats over . |
| 21 | Far from dissuading the rodents , the smell of lavender positively encouraged them and they soon ate through the paper plugs . |
| 22 | Our customers were mostly quiet , farming people ; the captain frightened them and they soon learned to leave him alone . |
| 23 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 24 | ‘ Piss orf , ’ I hissed at them and they calmly turned away and continued down the street , convinced I really was a genuine cabby . |
| 25 | His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four . |
| 26 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 28 | having your normal period was n't ever mentioned , I was just sent along to the lav , my sister came with me , she said ‘ you wear this ’ , and that was that — My mother never even mentioned it … you got married and you had children , I did n't know there was such a thing that you could not have them and it just went on and on . |
| 29 | I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’ |
| 30 | There was the sound of a car behind them and it suddenly became very light . |