Example sentences of "and [vb past] [coord] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed . |
| 2 | Just as before she had needed to stay inside the cottage , fearful that she would miss Johnny if he should come , now she needed to be away , out there where her world was still turning , and people laughed and played and did ordinary things . |
| 3 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 4 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 5 | But then I got led astray , and went and did that awful thing to poor Annunciata . " |
| 6 | But that was good fun , there were eighteen of us , from eight different countries er Americans and Canadians and Australians and New Zealanders and Dutch and Swiss and English and er we had a good time , and then we and went and did mountain biking in Katmandu |
| 7 | Er that can be bad because if , if only from the point of view that when you get back you 've got nothing to talk about because they were there and saw and did it all you see . |
| 8 | Miss Bond shifted her position slightly and smiled but did not reply . |