Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I says to Steve , I says , I ca n't keep affording this ! |
| 2 | And I says to Ray , are n't we using hopper nineteen ? |
| 3 | I ca n't , our Margaret 's drying it on radiators , and I says to Albert , what me mum doing with the dryer . |
| 4 | So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out . |
| 5 | No no y No nobody 's thought of it until I stood there and watched it and I says to George the operator , I says , Right we 're gon na put a new chiller on here . |
| 6 | I went in John 's shop and I goes to John have you seen Maggie ? |
| 7 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
| 8 | ‘ Is there a problem ? ’ a voice from behind Angelica says , and she turns in surprise . |
| 9 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 10 | She there most of the evening and she goes to bingo and |
| 11 | And she goes to Richmond quite a bit as well . |
| 12 | She goes to sleep now , she tells me when she 's tired and she gets in pushchair and that . |
| 13 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 14 | And she says to Lisa , er , when you get to end of shift , you you rule off , what you have sold , everything you 've sold , but next shift starting here 's your daddy . |
| 15 | I go out and tend to the suffering populace and she sits at home and patronizes me . |
| 16 | and she dreams of stars |
| 17 | The Conference proceedings were published in the autumn and she contributes to Apollo , Artention ( Hong Kong ) etc. articles on Chinese art and culture . |
| 18 | I said I feel sorry for Maggie , I says , cos she always ends up in the bloody middle , I says , and she whittles to death , I says , till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns , I says she 'll be awake nearly all night ! |
| 19 | Erm , St John , towards the end of the novel is described as erm he , when he 's asked Jane and she pleads for quarter of hour 's time to think |
| 20 | She wears big DM boots and she snarls at people , she 's no Little Miss Come-on . |
| 21 | well if she still does it did n't make it clear , and she lives at Knilton |
| 22 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 23 | and she lives in Ireland you see . |
| 24 | ‘ The girl who 's missing — you 'll have had my circular — is Deborah Jean Maxwell and she lives in Piazza Pitti , number three . ’ |
| 25 | And she worries about Steve when they 're in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Her triumph in securing Dombey as a husband for Edith is dashed by Edith 's unconcealed contempt and resentment after the marriage , and she dies in confusion of mind and physical incapacity brought on by a stroke . |
| 27 | In a fortnight I sail for New Zealand — and She sails for India . |
| 28 | Sarah worked in a hospital , and she knows about heroin . |
| 29 | It 's the one who 's had cancer and she wants to kind of , go on and study and help the people with cancer . |
| 30 | In the chapter on Japan , Midori Suzuki , a member of WACC 's Central Committee and of the Executive Committee of WACC 's Asia Regional Association , studies the portrayal of women on television , the commercialization of sex in television broadcasting of all kinds , and she looks at ways to bring an end to this sexual discrimination . |