Example sentences of "and [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he come there and luckily he went on top of the table to lie down . |
| 2 | Simultaneously with the AID and AIH , the Forts were trying to adopt , but with no great success , and eventually they turned to the US , which has a more relaxed attitude to age . |
| 3 | From that point we searched and searched for blues music and eventually we evolved into a ‘ blues band ’ . |
| 4 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 5 | This sort of behaviour is very irritating and eventually I resorted to giving him a kick . |
| 6 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 7 | Mrs Field was such a grand lady , and eventually I moved to Lartington to become her lady 's maid . |
| 8 | She had been phoning people who might go to Greece with her or drive her there or , failing that , pay her air-fare , and eventually she succeeded in getting a loan from an aunt and an offer of a place in a minibus from an old schoolfellow and her boyfriend . |
| 9 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 10 | This became worse and worse and eventually he had to be put out of his misery . |
| 11 | While they were there , an elderly man came down the stairs from the upper floor ( with its second hand books and books of local interest ) , and started to wander around , absent-mindedly Clara could tell from a certain straining of attention on Walter 's part that he was trying to catch the old man 's eye , and eventually he succeeded in doing so ; the old man nodded and smiled , with a bare " minimum of recognition , and Walter said " Good morning , Mr Warbley . " |
| 12 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
| 13 | It was raw , frank and eventually it appeared in print . |
| 14 | I 'm sure that when I came out of the room I was staggering , and instinctively I pawed at my mouth . |
| 15 | An intolerable weight seemed to press on her forehead and slowly she slid into sleep . |
| 16 | Their eyes locked , and slowly she rose to her feet . |
| 17 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 18 | Left and right we turned under the sick orange of the streetlights , then stopped . |
| 19 | I felt the tears welling up in my eyes and suddenly they spilled over the sides and dripped down my cheeks . |
| 20 | He looked at Arkhina , and suddenly they clung to one another and laughed . |
| 21 | People see me in a certain way at school , as someone outspoken and good at English ; then they see me with my head covered , and suddenly they seem to be thinking : submissive . |
| 22 | He 's almost halfway across and suddenly I go from being terrified and annoyed to being exhilarated , intoxicated ; overjoyed . |
| 23 | Miss Sowerby — by now an enthusiastic convert — and I had taken turns at massaging the damaged calf muscles , and suddenly I said to him , ‘ Jimbo , just imagine it 's you that 's making the muscles move . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 25 | Her feet found wings and suddenly she twinkled with the spirit of Fred Astaire . |
| 26 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 27 | Or the two girls and one is a greaser until she tries this spot cream and suddenly she turns into this total straight . |
| 28 | ‘ And suddenly he leapt on me . ’ |
| 29 | And so we sailed on south for some days . |
| 30 | And so we return to that familiar Good Samaritan , Uncle Sam . |