Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unpaid tax bill instilled fears into the companies who dealt with Red Rhino and everyone slapped their bills in at the same time . |
| 2 | And everyone told me : do n't waste your energy . |
| 3 | She had been very astute and successful , and everyone wished her well . |
| 4 | They say he walked to the centre of the Sun Chamber , and that as he did so , the disguise fell from him , and everyone saw him for what he really was . |
| 5 | In previous generations the undertaker was a well-known local figure and everyone knew what to do to arrange a funeral . |
| 6 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 7 | And everyone knew you 'd quarrelled . |
| 8 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 9 | What cricketers need now is a dose of the amateur captain , you know , one who was the boss and everyone knew it , even in the committee room . |
| 10 | The French had won , and everyone knew it . |
| 11 | Well they , er nowhere , we did n't get them from anywhere we just used to think them up and everyone thought we were potty did n't they ? |
| 12 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 13 | ‘ And everyone thought it was Gramps who was the father ? ’ |
| 14 | He thought he was having a secret affair , and everyone thought I did n't know and was terribly sympathetic . |
| 15 | It was a delicious reunion and everyone thought I looked amazingly well on my borrowed blood . |
| 16 | And everyone thought he was posing but it was actually who did it . |
| 17 | Jack had gone to India soon afterwards , and although Susan wore no ring they were definitely engaged , and everyone took it for granted that they would marry as soon as circumstances would permit . |
| 18 | ‘ I was so miserable when I came here , and everyone rejected me all over again , ’ she said . |
| 19 | The result was that I chaired a session and I got Pam Mills from the BBC to speak at it and everyone agreed it was one of the best sessions of the conference . |
| 20 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 21 | After a long time , the music started to play again and Cousin Jane and Mike walked back down the aisle and out of the church and everyone followed them into the sunny afternoon . |
| 22 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 23 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 24 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 25 | And everyone reckoned it was the album that Talk Talk had always wanted to make . |
| 26 | Then , when the rice and meat were ready , Mina fetched some pots of river-water from the big copper container in the corner and everyone washed their hands where they were sitting round the fire . |
| 27 | After he 'd coated the segments in salt and chilli he passed them round , and everyone smacked their lips and screwed up their faces in pained delight . |
| 28 | He managed to co-opt the gloomy Georg into circulating with more champagne and everyone averted their eyes as Georg drew near Suzi and refilled her glass . |
| 29 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 30 | The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards . |