Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician .
2 And that meant everything to him …
3 And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range .
4 But I was very much in love with Isobel and that prevented my from looking too hard at the mess I had created .
5 I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director .
6 It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember .
7 She did n't need to look up to know he 'd seen everything , and that irritated her beyond measure .
8 ‘ He played tennis on a high level for two and half hours , and did n't give me time to breathe , and that caught me by surprise a little bit , ’ said Boris Becker , his prize scalp , after the German had lost .
9 And that faced her with a course of action which , for some obscure reason , seemed rather distasteful now .
10 so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’
11 This morning there were three cars besides myself and that frightened me to death being a trader .
12 And that put her in her place you see , and it gave her a position .
13 As well as Seve 's good start on the fourth round , he also birdied one of the par-5s going out and that put him in front .
14 As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead .
15 only had this sprung on me er today er when I went in to the Hall and and and saw them with a notice and a table collecting signatures .
16 He must he must erm stooped down on his knees and caught it in his mouth and and got it into his pocket some way or another .
17 And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes
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