Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembers Mr Lamont using a gold Access card and that he signed his name simply Norman Lamont . |
| 2 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 3 | A woman in the audience/church left in the middle of the performance/wedding and as she left she trod on the foot of the man at the end of the row . |
| 4 | But seeing Damien made her lose concentration and before she knew what was happening she found herself boxed in yet again . |
| 5 | ‘ And he tried to put his tongue in my mouth and when he pulled me in the doorway he — he unfastened the front of his trousers . ’ |
| 6 | Meredith went out to fetch the tea and when she returned he went on , ‘ This is an official visit , actually . ’ |
| 7 | just whatever one come up first you went for the interview and if you answered it you just took it . |
| 8 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 9 | The family did not own a car and so they made their journey by coach . |
| 10 | Today we 'll be talking about all those guarantees that you 've seen when you bought your car and when you bought your refrigerator and when you 've bought almost anything nowadays , because people are being spoiled for choice on guarantees it seems . |
| 11 | WHEN WE first got to New York , the reporters met the boat and because they printed our names in the papers the Stage Door Johnnies started pestering us ; they were a completely different sort from the European ones . |
| 12 | There was uproar when the Navy discovered the mines and Stirling had to own up , only to be told that they often dropped small depth charges at random into the harbour and if they saw anything suspicious sprayed the area with machine guns . |
| 13 | There were definite signs of something in the wind and when I saw who we were drawn with for the first rounds — Nick Price and Ray Floyd — both Nick and I were delighted . |
| 14 | He had discovered Oliver weeping in the conservatory and though he remembered his own childhood clearly enough to know this was the likely end to any birthday , it touched and disturbed him . |
| 15 | ‘ The table was in the window and while we ate we thought non-stop about the garden . ’ |
| 16 | In the early hours of February 16 last year Abram broke into her home through the bathroom window and when she disturbed him as he searched for money for drink and to have his hair cut he killed her , Mr Burke said . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it was some weirdo and when I asked who was calling the voice yelled : ‘ It 's me ! ’ |
| 18 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
| 19 | Now this is where you come in erm and this is where we 've we 've done something which er we think is quite clever , this here is the back facade of Barley Hall and when we got it it was not medieval at all , there was no timber framing left , it was just this this er brick here , so we did n't want to fake it up to look medieval on the outside . |
| 20 | As he made for the door he heard the phone ringing in the hall and when he entered he saw Joe turn from the telephone table towards him , saying , ‘ It 's for you , Martin . |
| 21 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 22 | He had been visiting her home and when he left he had slipped in the yard , et cetera . |
| 23 | And you should n't ask me — it 's a leading question and if you asked me that in court the judge would intervene and tell the recorder to strike it out ! |
| 24 | Harker punched and kicked the girl and when she escaped he smashed a window , went outside and began to smash the windows of her brother 's car . |
| 25 | Remembering my conversations with him at the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976 , it was clear that he wanted fresh fields to conquer , that he thought he had more than proved himself as a racing driver and that he thought he could , with no great difficulty , follow a Bruce McLaren , for instance , and make his own way in cars of his own . |
| 26 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 27 | Well it was on the settee and cos he had his blue hat on . |
| 28 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 29 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |
| 30 | The tradition referred to earlier that a surgeon had been required for the Empress , maintains that Garvine had to diagnose her illness without being allowed into her presence and that he treated her successfully . |