Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would he really let rhinoceroses out of cages so they charged people in the suburbs and trampled them down and ate them alive ? |
| 2 | He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 . |
| 3 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 4 | The force of the blow caught him squarely and sent him sprawling , gasping for breath , temporarily blinded , rolling in the dust . |
| 5 | She was teasing , but I answered , ‘ I 'd guess Mercer assured the waiter he would n't be fired and took him aside and gave him twenty dollars . ’ |
| 6 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 7 | and , he 'd got her up and got her ready and sent her out and said he would n't come . |
| 8 | She completely ignored her husband until he fell asleep in his chair , whereupon she woke him up and berated him all the way up the stairs , their shouting and swearing affecting the children not one iota . |
| 9 | Maybe she tied him up and gave him soft whip . |
| 10 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 11 | I could never of got them and got her hair cut cos she did do it slowly and got it level |
| 12 | While these southern Americans believed their region unified by its homogeneity , what actually drew it together and made it conscious to itself was its deep and ( according to white Southern belief ) ineradicable , division — into white and black . |
| 13 | Well he should of carried it home and carried it all the way back again |
| 14 | Marc slid it off and trailed it all the way back along her inner arm as he withdrew his own . |
| 15 | I cleared it out and relaid it this morning , fortunately . |
| 16 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 17 | He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it . |
| 18 | The farmer 's wife invited us in and gave us cheesy , potato turnovers — it would not be polite to refuse . |
| 19 | The pair ignored us completely and gave us superb views of yet another extremely rare endemic bird of the Seychelles . |