Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean I remember when I went , first went to my cheap caravan site where there is n't a toilet and you have to walk to the toilets , and I remember a couple of times when I was little , shitting my pants on the way to the toilets , you know , cos I could n't hold it in . |
| 32 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 33 | It was the sort of London garden which grew London Pride and smelt of snails but there was room to play cricket or French cricket on the grass ( You ca n't have five children and a nice lawn , as my Father sagely remarked ) and I remember a time when obstacle races round the gravelled path on our bicycles was popular with my sister and me . |
| 34 | And I like a man with lots of muscles and |
| 35 | I like Duane Eddy , and I like a guitar to sound twangy and hard and brittle . ’ |
| 36 | And I like a lot of the contemporary American rock groups . |
| 37 | Erm you know I like Georgian and I like a lot of other architecture but that I think has got tremendous character . |
| 38 | — Tim Loughton , of Battersea ‘ Now my name 's Binge and I like a party , but these parties are something else again . ’ |
| 39 | When I was at school and I got a row , my mother and father would assume I was in the wrong . |
| 40 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 41 | The balance I have put towards something for us both — a new continental quilt for our bed here — and I got a king sized one , as JOHN always seems to get it all , but this may be big enough to let me hang on to my side . |
| 42 | If you brought a bottle of white and I got a bottle of white ready , if I had n't opened it , I 'd open yours . |
| 43 | ‘ And I got a chicken , ’ he said , ‘ the kind you like ! ’ |
| 44 | So she got straight onto the DHSS and I got a grant for three single beds and bedding . |
| 45 | It 's got an electric fire and food in the cupboards , and I got a cat and a sleeping bag and all sorts . |
| 46 | And I got a badge . |
| 47 | Yeah , and I got a transfer in Toc H I 'm a district member now |
| 48 | oh and I got a bike |
| 49 | ‘ I helped you by clearing all the leaves in the yard , ’ she told him half a dozen times , ‘ and I got a cold while I was doing it . |
| 50 | ‘ The Steve Cropper connection came about because he and I got a chance to get reacquainted with one another down in Seville at the Guitar Legends concerts . |
| 51 | Right I 've twenty three worth Bob and I got a bit of loose change as well . |
| 52 | and the secretary 's knocking on the door , the telephone rings , and I got a bit of work done . |
| 53 | We went via Kings Cross and I got a taxi across to Baker Street for Hertfordshire . |
| 54 | And I got a sister , I got a sister in America |
| 55 | I , I did n't get in while er I thought she were ten to four and I got a phone message off my daughter-in-law would I ring her . |
| 56 | Anyway they questionedme and realised I had nothing to do with it and I got a letter saying I was completely innocent and apologising profusely |
| 57 | Oh and I got a letter . |
| 58 | Gerda and I got a bank loan , and I was able to buy the farm back . |
| 59 | I was just holding him down and I got a hammering from the locals . |
| 60 | I do n't feel too bad — my legs ache and I got a sort of tight feeling in my tummy , but apart from that I 'm OK . |