Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 2 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 3 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 4 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 5 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 6 | She felt an overwhelming urge to lick her lips and fought it for a while till her treacherous tongue simply shot out — only to be retracted slowly , under Lucenzo 's predatory eyes . |
| 7 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 8 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 9 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 10 | He slammed the full magazine into the weapon and gripped it for a moment , the veins in his temple throbbing angrily . |
| 11 | She caught Stephen 's eye and held it for a second . |
| 12 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 13 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 14 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 15 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not the woman-hater who juggled eight women and kept lying to them all and kept them on a string and had one for every night , ’ he says . |
| 17 | We selected some of our favourites and snapped them for the magazine |
| 18 | He straightened his tie and steeled himself for the meeting . |
| 19 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 20 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 21 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 22 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 23 | For some strange reason she could n't seem to relinquish her hold on the chain and braced herself for the wrench she was sure would follow when fitzAlan started towards the castle gates . |
| 24 | He leaned back in his chair and surveyed her for a moment . |
| 25 | Kelly returned his kiss and held it for a fraction longer than she should have . |
| 26 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | ‘ Before training , Barry called a meeting and said the chairman had accused us of being greedy bastards and blamed us for the fine . |
| 28 | At this point she burst into tears and blamed herself for the break-up of their relationship . |
| 29 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 30 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |