Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unpaid tax bill instilled fears into the companies who dealt with Red Rhino and everyone slapped their bills in at the same time . |
| 2 | This little Hampshire market town had not been designed for crowds such as these , and everyone kept on getting in everyone else 's way . |
| 3 | Someone filled and lit a chillim and everyone gathered round to smoke it , exchanging , now and then , laconic comments about the boar 's escape , musing about what had happened and how different everything could have been if only luck was with them . |
| 4 | Er public opinion did n't welcome the overthrow of of the Shah , it was immediately horrified and everyone gathered together to er try and bring about a re- establishment of the Shah . |
| 5 | And everyone told me : do n't waste your energy . |
| 6 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 7 | The record came to an end and everyone clapped and gave high-spirited whoops and whistles . |
| 8 | Next day — Sunday , was very hot and everyone went to bed with the windows wide open . |
| 9 | The service was held at the chapel and everyone went to the Kirk Inn at Romaldkirk afterwards . |
| 10 | At last , the time came and everyone went to bed . |
| 11 | The dress rehearsal finally ended at four in the afternoon and everyone went home to rest . |
| 12 | And everyone went , what ! |
| 13 | One long blast on the whistle from Mr. Windust and everyone came to attention on the spot with not a sound to be heard . |
| 14 | There were bodies everywhere and everyone seemed to be screaming and crying . |
| 15 | Even their religious faith was subtly different from her own : they seemed hemmed in by a regiment of saints , feasts , rules , indulgences , penances and novenas , and everyone seemed to be permanently on guard against saying or doing anything that might be deemed heretical . |
| 16 | There were no forks , and everyone seemed to be using either his fingers or a knife . |
| 17 | It had been a hard year , the public felt Lauda had been ill done by , and everyone felt that they were seeing the apotheosis of one of the great drivers and the first signs of greatness in his natural successor , Alain Prost . |
| 18 | Seven of the 10 practices had made an overall saving on their first year 's budget , and everyone felt that the benefits of being in the scheme outweighed the costs . |
| 19 | In November church bells were rung to celebrate the victory at El Alamein , and everyone felt that at last the war might be near the end , although Churchill told them they were wrong . |
| 20 | Conversation stopped and everyone became frightfully solicitous . |
| 21 | I saw it happen once to a dear old woman who went around a group of people , gently offering her book , and everyone signed except one . |
| 22 | Late in the afternoon , a porter came along with a creaking trolley carrying a coffee urn and snackstuffs , and everyone stirred to a kind of frisky wakefulness and examined the fare keenly . |
| 23 | Then it was the Eighties and everyone meant business . |
| 24 | As was normally done , she began to cry ( it was only a scratch ) and everyone crowded around her , uttering words of soul-lifting encouragement , such as ‘ Are ya all right ? ’ . |
| 25 | Mary was posted to a notorious station in the Fens , called Sledgwick , which was universally known as HMS Sledgwick because it was practically under water and everyone wore gumboots and walked about on duckboards . |
| 26 | Also , you think you deserve it or you think you 've earned it or you think you can afford it , and everyone began to act like that . |
| 27 | After a few false starts he found his rhythm and everyone began to clap in time . |
| 28 | For the next half hour the rehearsals took on a sudden lift and everyone began to dare to try things out without feeling foolish . |
| 29 | She had been very astute and successful , and everyone wished her well . |
| 30 | They say he walked to the centre of the Sun Chamber , and that as he did so , the disguise fell from him , and everyone saw him for what he really was . |