Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 2 | It was after eleven and everyone had gone to bed . |
| 3 | Sister Asuncion 's convent was completely destroyed by a bomb attack , although luckily the community had been warned and everyone had gone into hiding . |
| 4 | Would n't it be wonderful if we woke up tomorrow and everyone had become like you ? |
| 5 | It was a special meal and everyone had contributed to it , either with points , coupons or hoarded treats . |
| 6 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 7 | There had been no minibus for the office staff and everyone had dressed in black . |
| 8 | Subsequently when I got back down and realised we 'd done it , and everyone had got off the mountain and no-one had been injured , I had an immense feeling of satisfaction , just of having stood there . |
| 9 | and the sun was shining and everyone had got pla plastic bags , anything they could get to slide on you know |
| 10 | All was quiet when I awoke and everyone had vanished as if in a dream . |
| 11 | It had been courteously framed , but Goibniu had arranged for Balor to go with them and Floy had known — and everyone had known — that it had not really been a request but a command . |
| 12 | It was almost dark now and everyone had settled into their dugouts , prepared for another night of shelling and mortaring . |
| 13 | One of these I only wear once and everyone 's seen |
| 14 | way round , I shove everything to one side of the desk and everyone 's gone home and then I start working . |
| 15 | He 'll have the sinner box and everyone 's gone upstairs and have their bit of nooky , they can all come down and confess to him ! |
| 16 | These people are businessmen , when all 's said and done , and everyone 's got something to hide . |
| 17 | DURING Fun Fortnight we 've had jokes on everything from cows to coughs , doctors to dentists , and everyone has given us a good laugh . |
| 18 | DURING Fun Fortnight we 've had jokes on everything from cows to coughs , doctors to dentists , and everyone has given us a good laugh . |
| 19 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |
| 20 | Tough targets have been set in quality and service levels and everyone has had to adapt to new ways of doing things . |
| 21 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 22 | It was late in the day and nothing had led up to it . |
| 23 | ‘ He already had had similar amounts — and more , much more — and nothing had happened . ’ |
| 24 | But he knew where to go , where to avoid and nothing had happened to him . |
| 25 | He had done so four years before , and nothing had happened in the meantime either to abate his ambition or to make him less qualified — in the latter case very much the reverse . |
| 26 | And nothing had happened . |
| 27 | They had completed their training , done their time , including a tour in Germany , left the Army and nothing had happened . |
| 28 | And nothing had happened . |
| 29 | But Mr Wallace said he had put forward such ideas last year and nothing had happened : ‘ I think everyone is asleep in it . ’ |
| 30 | However , Schoenbaum points out the superficial level of social change pointing to the ‘ schizophrenia ’ of Nazi society — ; where it ‘ could be seen everything had changed and nothing had changed . ’ |