Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THOMPSON : ‘ The thing with Bill Shankly was that we were always a family and everyone knew each other from the cleaning lady to the girls in the ticket office .
2 Faith had disposed of the money and belongings as she chose and everyone had that right , at the very least .
3 Jerry looked up to me as his hero ; the rapport and affinity between him and me transcended all things ; with us it was true brotherly love , which exists to this day , with no ulterior motives … no payments … no conditions .
4 Father-in-law and me soldiered six weeks to restore it looks now .
5 Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back .
6 He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’
7 As Mr Charles , our chief male nurse and I passed each other on our way to and from the admission ward and our offices we had first one and then another sorry tale to tell .
8 Loud bangs started upstairs and I imagined all kinds of things were happening .
9 I was the criminal , in and out of prison all my life , and I got fourteen years on the prison-ship .
10 Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat
11 I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it
12 And I got thirty pound twenty five for it .
13 Yeah , and I got four Rottweilers .
14 I put a couple of quid in and I got four pounds something cos er went and bought some fags out of the machine and then I got the er the brown note flashing , from ten P so I stopped I have stopped .
15 I have to record loads of tapes , no no not just these ones and I got other ones at home , I 've got have a bath , I 've got clean up my bedroom and you know .
16 And I got new trainers .
17 And I got two polo necks one with slight ribs in .
18 I I saw it somewhere and I got lost track of it .
19 Well , I went home and I got another job and it , then I went back , I says can I have me card ?
20 and I got some fruit up the market on Friday .
21 there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life
22 I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school .
23 When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre .
24 pullover and I got those socks for Tony .
25 I said I 'll ha take one pair and er the lady 's called Irene , she 's had the shop for years and years mum always gets and I got those stockings for you
26 My flat had a sitting room , bedroom , bathroom and kitchen , looking over a tree-lined courtyard , and I got 3 meals a day every day including Sunday .
27 Anyhow I went out and I got this baby nest shawl thing
28 And er when it come to the election of a shop steward about in ni nineteen er I think it were nineteen twenty seven , it were nineteen twenty seven er I there were two hundred in our shop and I got elected shop steward , mainly I think because a lot more , most did n't did n't want to be bothered you know but anyway I I and so that 's what I retained .
29 The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
30 My brother and I got dried bananas
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