Example sentences of "[vb past] and [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 2 | All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name . |
| 3 | Produce letters that are recognisably formed and properly oriented and that have clear ascenders and descenders where necessary . |
| 4 | " This is T. S. Eliot here , " he would say on the telephone ; it was an instrument he detested and when using it his voice had " a curiously strangled sound " . |
| 5 | And I went to the Magistrates and acted and and gave witness on behalf of this old gentleman . |
| 6 | And er that hurt and that made you much more determined to improve and be able to make a proper load as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | And Billy complained and and said yeah I saw it . |
| 8 | Prentice smiled and that made me more nervous than anything . |
| 9 | Only once had he returned after they all left and that had been bad enough , like a dream — no , like stepping into the set and scenario of some frightening film , a Hitchcock movie perhaps . |
| 10 | The only first-hand evidence they had and that depended on the observation of a not very bright young man , on a dark misty night , at a distance of a hundred yards . |
| 11 | He said and that cost me he looked round , twenty two pound . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |