Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 2 | Sir Leon extended early parole to many more short-sentence prisoners and virtually abolished it for long-term offenders convicted on drugs , sex , arson , and violence charges . |
| 3 | ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman . |
| 4 | Rachaela reduced the fifteen-pound necklace to the prescribed fourteen pounds and carefully replaced it with the price tag face down . |
| 5 | Writing this from the standpoint of the narrator ( Arthur ) looking back to the sixteenth ( and last ) year of Philip , the youngest child of the Morgan household , we are told that Arthur kept a diary of that year — as indeed Edward had kept such a diary and later printed it in The Woodland Life . |
| 6 | Billy had already hand-reared a male cub and successfully released it into the wild . |
| 7 | Until his brother took over the firm and promptly sold it to INCUBUS Oy . |
| 8 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |
| 9 | At journey 's end she folded over the top of the bag and thoughtfully replaced it behind the netting on the back of the seat in front . |
| 10 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |