Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my brother and me had fallen the task of disentangling our parents ' possessions from the original contents of the house . |
| 2 | Er , gi I 've done that you know , when I were younger and I 'd strained a heart muscle ! |
| 3 | And I 'd seen a most delightful villa — do you know St-Tropez , Jean ? |
| 4 | And I 'd seen every bird in Israel but one , the bar-tailed lark . |
| 5 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 6 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 7 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 8 | And I 'd written the postcard on boat er they gave us all postcards to send home . |
| 9 | We 'd played in St. Albans and I 'd met a girl there , Claire , She was the Social Secretary at the college who 'd booked us in to play . |
| 10 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 11 | And I 'd scraped the cooker |
| 12 | On this occasion the N1 cam was to the right of centre and I 'd knitted the right side of the neck correctly , with no problem . |
| 13 | And I 'd left the gates open an oh it was Friday ! |
| 14 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 15 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 16 | It 's actually quite a good book and I 'd had a few qualms about turning it over to Lenny the Lathe , who specializes in converting books more than an inch thick into fireproof combination lock safes . |
| 17 | and I 'd had a and er they , I never saw them on the floor . |
| 18 | And I 'd had a car crash and it was quite a relief not to have to worry about performing . |
| 19 | And I 'd got no clothes to change into ! |
| 20 | And I 'd got a board with all the numbers on and hooks you see ? |
| 21 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 22 | and I 'd got a bit of an headache , well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty ! |
| 23 | Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them . |
| 24 | And I 'd got the Know me God Personally cos the words really stand out on that little green book . |
| 25 | I was out of the house faster than a rat up a drainpipe and I 'd slammed the door shut before Nigger banged into the back of it . |
| 26 | And I looked to behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was Death . |
| 27 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 28 | Up till this time Wendy and I had endured the discomforts of Althorp Street with cheerful good humour ; but when we discovered layers of stale milk on the saucepans , we felt we had had enough . |
| 29 | ‘ And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses . |
| 30 | And then , only six hours later , the pains returned and I had to repeat the dose . |