Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 2 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 3 | We have to keep a proper balance or we will continue to see destruction in the countryside that we have seen in some areas where there is too much access and where what used to be a path has become as wide as the M1 . |
| 4 | And there was the like for the corn and that we used to what we called hammling it was done with a flail . |
| 5 | ‘ It was such a cold day , ’ said Ianthe , ‘ and you 're not allowed to eat in the Public Record Office , so I thought just for once … = ’ She stopped , feeling that too much attention was being drawn to her and that they ought to be getting on with their work , especially as the Ash Wednesday service had made them late coming back from lunch . |
| 6 | The induction of recruits became a more civilized process in September 1862 when Miliutin declared that their heads need not be shaved and that they ought to be conducted to the barracks in everyday clothing rather than clothes that made them look like convicts . |
| 7 | ‘ Let us worry about that , ’ said the Captain , who knew exactly what would happen if nobody paid and that they would in all likelihood never find the body . |
| 8 | I used to walk along there to see these rabbits I think the name was and they , it was a barber 's shop that had got these sold all sorts of pet things and that I used to , then I used to come home that was my Saturday morning , but I always used to go in up to the news line . |
| 9 | And when he pointed out that these were Irish , not British Trade unions they were talking about , it was sadly admitted that the English disease had poisoned the minds of many impressionable Irish trade unionists and that it would of course take time entirely to eradicate malign English influences from the land of Saints and Scholars . |
| 10 | Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House . |
| 11 | He observed initially that there were people ‘ who believe that a neutral foreign policy would guarantee the security of the Asian peoples , and that it would at first stabilise the situation and then ensure peace and security on the Asian continent ’ . |
| 12 | To the extent that such approaches may suggest the desirability of changing over to a counter-force nuclear policy , they escape from the moral frying-pan of counter-city targeting into the strategic fire of counter-force , which has the twin disadvantages that it might put a premium on first strike and that it would in any case result in frightful civilian losses . |
| 13 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 14 | It recommends that it should be taken over by the academy because of its focus on basic research and that it should at the same time establish links with a university . |
| 15 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
| 16 | Indeed that is something that bears closer examination because there are many people who believe that the relationship between a client and an auditor can be too close and that there ought to be a respectable distance between them . |
| 17 | Before it got burnt and that there used to be a dressing rooms there . |
| 18 | Oh of course down there the bottom and that there used to be a lot of erm there used to be some lodging houses what they call lodging houses for people what 's got nowhere to go you know , you used to sleep and . |
| 19 | It was all a plot to distort what she said , a plot between her husband and brother to take her daughter away from her , and her daughter had never got into any trouble while she was with her , and that she ought to be with other girls of her own age and with her own mother . |
| 20 | She thought that she never wanted to sleep with Jim again , that the bonds of love were snares and that she must at all costs leave as early as possible the next morning and never come back . |
| 21 | Miss Rene ignored Miss Belle 's remark and , turning again to Agnes , said , ‘ It should happen that Mrs Bretton-Fawcett had some bills outstanding and that she should at the same time require one or two hats for herself and an equal number for her daughter . |
| 22 | ‘ And so you ought to be , ’ Narcissus continued . |
| 23 | They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm |
| 24 | Er and if he 'd of walked up to John two minutes later he probably would n't have made it because we had a right erm but we did feel there had to be some initials . |
| 25 | With this business of embargo , Liz , I 'll agree with that but the , the off the record , one wants to get the local people very well and you do develop this , this trust , and if you can in fact give them a lot of scope that you know what to use . |
| 26 | That was like er er what you call a linseed oil , they call is text that 's some animal 's erm oil I think out of the house and cos they used to , used to rub that in and you could them down lovely . |
| 27 | See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days . |
| 28 | Well they can Erm so e e and and we ought to provision probably for a thousand . |
| 29 | And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all . |
| 30 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |