Example sentences of "and [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 2 | With this in mind , it was important when moving into the schools market to consider who did the book buying in a school , and where they got their ideas from . |
| 3 | I 'd like to know which picture this is , and where they got it . |
| 4 | to escape that , by fleeing into the countryside , very often into particularly backward and inaccessible areas of the countryside , where they would be safe from the security forces and where they hoped they could begin to create a new base among the peasantry . |
| 5 | How much they spent ( in addition to accommodation ) , and where they spent it . |
| 6 | Er , that 's a difficult question because we bought er anywhere we could er , and where we thought there was leather that we could make a small profit on . |
| 7 | Kipling wrote : ‘ We 've only one virginity to lose And where we lost it there our hearts will be . ’ |
| 8 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 9 | Be so kind , please , as to enquire from your colleagues whether any of them brought a fare from the Theater an der Wien this evening at about , ’ — Thiercelin consulted his watch — ‘ ten minutes before seven , and where he took him . ’ |
| 10 | He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to . |
| 11 | In 1906 he made over Cliveden to his newly married elder son , and bought Hever Castle in Kent , which he reconstructed and where he housed his collection of pictures and artefacts . |
| 12 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 13 | Then ran and slipped and ran again , past the church , between the dignified houses on the new Bristol Bridge , dodging the tollkeepers who marvelled at her speed , and over to the Welsh Back where horse-drawn sleds wove between towers of kegs , hanks of rope , sprawling sacks and the beached masts of ships , and where she knew she could shrink unnoticed into a warren of warehouses , entries and cellars . |
| 14 | ( a ) some poems by Emily Dickinson , which you analyse ; ( b ) a bibliography ( list of books and articles ) , to find out what has been written by and on this poet ; ( c ) one or more critical articles on Emily Dickinson ; ( d ) a biography of the writer ; ( e ) a dictionary of symbolism , to look up some of the symbols she uses ; ( f ) a concordance to the works of Emily Dickinson ( this is a list of all the words she used , and where she used them ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Here ! ’ he said , looking about him and seeing he had their attention . |
| 16 | Gleizes writes , ‘ it was at this moment , October 1910 , that we discovered each other seriously , including Robert Delaunay … and that we realized what we had in common . |
| 17 | I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound . |
| 18 | ‘ He said that Arabs were savages and that they ate nothing but camel dung . ’ |
| 19 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 20 | Er and in both cases it was er a feeling of insecurity , and that they felt they would be more secure going to a different part of the organization . |
| 21 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 22 | The reasons that Charlie Francis , Ben Johnson , Angella Taylor and the rest took drugs are that the rewards were great and that they thought they could get away with it . |
| 23 | Couns Williams and Dixon confirmed that their view of Mr Major 's achievements and thoughts for the future differed from his , that they would not be sending donations and that they thought it was a complete cock-up . |
| 24 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 25 | It is easy enough to put another interpretation on the behaviour of the Robinses , to argue that they were doing their best in trying circumstances ( to forbid German was not a bad way of teaching English ) , and that they had their work cut out dealing with precocious children . |
| 26 | However , after the March 1990 elections ministers reassured white farmers that their interests would be protected and that they had nothing to fear . |
| 27 | And that they found it easier when they that that English was English and Orcadian was Orcadian . |
| 28 | In 1895 , the Royal Free appointed an official ‘ almoner ’ to ensure that patients were genuinely poor and that they contributed what they could afford to their treatment . |
| 29 | The coins show that contemporary Romans kept returning to the iconography not just of war , but of conquest , and that they presented themselves as following in the footsteps of Alexander ; this is an important contribution to our understanding of their aspirations at the time . |
| 30 | Poindexter remembered that Casey invited himself , that they ate sandwiches , and that they discussed what Casey had said in his briefing of Congress the previous day . |