Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 2 | This time they were sent to Alfred Bowles of Ipswich and bear the inscription " Alfred made me and hung us all " . |
| 3 | The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives . |
| 4 | She paced me and paced me wrong . ’ |
| 5 | Although small , my enthusiasm for all Sports helped me and gave me some popularity at school . |
| 6 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 7 | She went under completely and on her way down Fernando caught her and raked her all the way down his naked body . |
| 8 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 9 | Who he was she could n't say , because the room was too dark , but he must have left the front door open and the wind must have caught it and made it shut with a crash . |
| 10 | It 's important to establish the invariable habit of going through replies to all your searches ( the same principle applies to the practical enquiries and requisitions on title ) , ticking each one after you have considered it and found it satisfactory ; if the contrary is the case , or if , for example , some information is disclosed that ought to be passed on to your client , mark it accordingly , and thereafter tick it when you " ve dealt suitably with the item . |
| 11 | ‘ Some guys approached us and gave us one ( tablet ) each . ’ |
| 12 | Here 's me thinking I woke me and dressed me this morning , and all the time I 'm still in bed and dreaming . |
| 13 | Mary 's fiancé , Johnny , who was a sergeant motor mechanic on one of the bomber air fields in Yorkshire , came down to visit her and took us all out for a drink one evening . |
| 14 | The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome . |
| 15 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 16 | It was she who was the essential element in the alchemy which had absolved him and promised him such a refreshment of security and calm here . |
| 17 | My wife also read it and declared it superior to the equivalent magazine sent her by her old University — Oxford . |
| 18 | He knew he had simplified the matter when he said the six thousand would be sent abroad to the War — simplified it and coloured it blood-red . |
| 19 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 20 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 21 | Her eyes lit up when she opened it and found it full of farthings . |
| 22 | So the cat and the buzzard were added to their company , and the young lord looked after them all , fed them and kept them warm . |
| 23 | You have already judged me and found me guilty . |
| 24 | He remained in the royal household under Richard III , who knighted him and gave him further land in Northamptonshire and London in 1484 . |
| 25 | It was the smell that alerted her and gave her that first sudden awareness of danger . |
| 26 | Hayling had seemed unusually pleased to see him and offered him some champagne . |
| 27 | His long silence worried me and made me frightened . |
| 28 | , . I had a very serious patient er , the other day , and I treated him and gave him six months to live , but at the end of six months , he did n't pay his account , so I gave him another six months . , . |
| 29 | Villagers from the former location soon reached him and carried him shoulder-high in a triumphal procession . |
| 30 | She turned to face me and gave me that vivid smile that transformed her already delightful face . |