Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] and [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
| 2 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 3 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 4 | Like this , you see looking for and I said she 's gone on a bike ride ! |
| 5 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 6 | What about the Halal meat , in this county where three years ago we had a meeting and they decided that animals that were slaughtered without being stunned with sheer terror , who are allowed to bleed to death because this is what a particular group believed in and we did it . |
| 7 | There was an agony inside him which he had never felt before and he closed his eyes briefly . |
| 8 | " I love the idea of that sort of gift , because it 's so special and you always remember where it came from and who gave it to you . " |
| 9 | She filled him with a kind of exultation he had never experienced before and he found himself shaking his head . |
| 10 | The people who were lived behind Ann there 's a yo young couple in there I think he beat her up , I mean that I wanted to go round me , because I know what it felt like and I wished somebody had come and help me . |
| 11 | mm , I shall er get the other lot in and do that , do that first thing in the morning , get every thing cleared up , and then if you give me your pull overs , I can hand wash those and put them in the spin drier so you 'd better sort them out do you think you 'd of put some tassels in that pelmet ? , you know where the I 've got some spare one 's no , do n't you remember I went into and he gave me a piece of the trimming and I can take the tassels off |
| 12 | we 'd never , like I mean , I can remember in Plymouth dad saying when we get there , erm we 'll buy a television , we 'll have a television and we did n't know what he was talking about and he said it 's a wireless with pictures , you know , and our minds were boggling we just could n't understand it , and then of course that was another bit of bribery got us to come . |
| 13 | I remember when I started my training I work with this girl and I said where 'd you come from and she said I come from the most boring town in Britain , I says where Grantham ? , she says yeah , I says is it boring , she says yeah huh , it is |
| 14 | But in the hospital you were smilin' like and I knew I was mistakin' . |