Example sentences of "and [vb past] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phoned me friend up you know and erm on Friday and asked and she said you do n't sound very well , I said I 've got a headache I said I 've had a headache every , cos I 've been on a diet and she turned round and said , she said you know she says it 's funny she says erm , you know what 's with us , what 's it with ? |
| 2 | ‘ We regret in respect of the national anthems our undertaking has been violated and breached and we apologise unconditionally to anyone who has been offended by this breach ’ . |
| 3 | When a young boy , overcome with curiosity , stepped out and prodded the dog 's mouth with a stick , he was grabbed by the arm and hauled back roughly : and when a dog began idly sniffing the body , someone kicked out and shouted and it lurched away through the crowd . |
| 4 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 5 | Within the Labour Party the Socialist League was finding that its attempts to remould policy were resented and rejected and it began to look for allies outside the Party . |
| 6 | They are unproven and overexaggerated and they miss the essential point . |
| 7 | He paused and turned and she watched him surveying his land , strong , sure male potency exuding from every inch of his rugged frame . |
| 8 | ‘ Eldorado was pulled forward and rushed and I think that 's the last thing you should do with a soap . |
| 9 | because at that meeting you can imagine that twenty people gathering then you end up not really making any decisions , far too many people , there was a lot discussed and aired and it concerns expressed and it was a case , and I 'm going from recollection here , it was really a case of let's go away and think about it and calm down and look at it rationally |
| 10 | As we flew closer and lower they looked up and waved and I recognized the pathetic twisted wreckage of T for Tommy . |
| 11 | I persisted and persisted and nobody believed me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We have had days when we 've had three s stewards scheduled for the morning we 've looked at the rota and thought and we 've had no-one turn up panic . |
| 14 | Like he 'd been cut open and died and I put my hand in all among his intestines . ’ |
| 15 | Rose 's hand was small and freckled and it teased and rubbed . |
| 16 | And I laughed and laughed and laughed and I put it in and you know what happened then . |
| 17 | I lay on my bed in a cheap lodging house and cried and I tell you Ellen I wished I was with you and receiving your kindness which was great to me . |
| 18 | I cried and cried and I memorised my passport number , 'cause I thought , ‘ If I lose everything , at least I 'll still be able to get home . ’ |
| 19 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
| 20 | right , Archie , he 's erm , on his own , own he 's er , think his wife died years ago , he saved and saved and he went on a big cruise , do you know what I mean ? |
| 21 | They all came back through their agents and complained and I told them to forget it . |
| 22 | and said and they come back |
| 23 | And Mrs erm , got in the , and said and I know who you are ! |
| 24 | actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something . |
| 25 | The early Earth-people had not given up on anything ; they had conquered and explored and invented and they had made a marvellous and memorable world . |
| 26 | The embalming procedures were explained and illustrated and he went on to show examples of vascular preservation and plastination of body parts and sections . |
| 27 | I cursed and blinded and I swore to get even … ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , I said it 's due to go off now , I said , half past three and we waited and waited and he said well it 's ten to four by me he said and I have n't heard one . |
| 29 | Then Jovo with his club knocked down the wall and let out his mother , and they wept and embraced and he took her far away . |
| 30 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |