Example sentences of "[vb past] and [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devraux was staring towards the front flaps as she entered and he froze when he saw her . |
| 2 | now this is an old rumour and er , he was an officer , er I think in the RAF and he had erm an accident his plane crashed and he died and this is why she dresses in military uniform all the time sort , you know she went a little bit deranged |
| 3 | Because from the age of seventeen to twenty nine I worked on building sites , and that got boring so I changed and I changed and became a policeman , and I ca became a policeman when I was twenty nine and a half and it 's , I 've enjoyed it ever since cos every day is interesting , every day is different , every day is unusual . |
| 4 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 5 | And there would be a funeral when the boat came and I mean when the boat came is just when the boat came . |
| 6 | And the following visit he made here he brought with him Miss Virginia she was one of the personnel at Stepney Causeway she was the Miss Virginia , the niece of the line and she came and she said that she would help in erm doing some organisation and and giving us some insight as to what we had to do , because we had never run a fete in all our lives ! |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I went to clinics , I went to specialists , they poked and they peered and they prodded , they took X-rays , they did tests , I do n't know what they did n't do , and they all said the same thing . |
| 8 | It creaked and I stopped and then heard something : a sort of thin scratching from underneath the stairs . |
| 9 | Erm I asked and she said that his dad sent him off to get it X-rayed and she goes , But he 's had a history with his toe poor blighter . |
| 10 | He fought and he flapped and made little gurgling noises , but Angelica hung on . |
| 11 | He soon remarried and it appears that his second wife had no qualms about sharing the bedchamber with her predecessor . |
| 12 | Her skin tingled and she knew that she was taut with expectation . |
| 13 | He looked up at me after I finished and I saw that whipped dog look . |
| 14 | When she looked at him through her veil her fears vanished and she thought that she was the luckiest girl in the world . |
| 15 | We kissed and we kissed till we couldny |
| 16 | His heart thudded and he realized that he had begun to breathe faster , with excitement . |
| 17 | But she survived and she lived and brought her children and they left to be in England again . |
| 18 | Suddenly the door bell rang and she blessed that she 'd blissed the afternoon away . |
| 19 | His jaw ached and he realised that he was grinding his teeth , so he released the muscles and tried to relax . |
| 20 | Rostov 's left arm ached and he realised that Alexei was trying to exploit the weakness of his healed injury to make an early touch . |
| 21 | Fonda , Hopper and Nicholson all knew what they meant and they knew that most of the youngsters in the audience would know what they meant . |
| 22 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 23 | Do you remember the first year when we went and everybody went and put notice in front ? |
| 24 | You know and we went and we booed and er a lot got thrown out , cos he had his mobsters there you know . |
| 25 | Oh at any rate , he they started rebidding and then of course it went and went and it fell and then this Mr gave up and whoever the other one was , Do n't remember who he was . |
| 26 | And he went and I went and he said yes I am . |
| 27 | Thy even asked how those outside the group felt and I answered that since I could not even think of anyone in the Church who contributed nothing I could not possibly answer the question . |
| 28 | ‘ And when the city fell and she decided that my fate was no longer one she chose to share , she returned to Buto . |
| 29 | Sarah answered the door ; she wore a shabby blue woollen dress , her grey hair straggled and she looked as though she could do with a wash . |
| 30 | Aunt Emily and Michael Swinton spoke to her together and then laughed and she saw that he looked quite different , much younger , that his hair and beard had been trimmed , that his expression was full of vitality . |