Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door . |
2 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
3 | He lowered himself and kissed her through the weave . |
4 | I laughed at him but , when he heard footsteps in the corridor , he wrenched it off my neck himself and flung it from the window . |
5 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
6 | When PC Stennett was sent to investigate he searched Hagans , but he found nothing and left him in the car park . |
7 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
8 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
9 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
10 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
11 | He smiled , thanked me and patted me on the head before knocking at our door . |
12 | Pylons strode down from it , past a settlement and a water-tower on the plain due south of me and lost themselves in the haze to the west . |
13 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
14 | Mrs McDougall , with a quick , concerned look at me , took my basket from me and dumped it on the counter . |
15 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
16 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
17 | He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder . |
18 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
19 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
20 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
21 | Father spun round , took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear . |
22 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |
23 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
24 | Zack took them and passed them to a man in the passage behind him . |
25 | Where were all those young hopefuls , who even in their crippled state had left death behind them and saw nothing but a future ? |
26 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
27 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
28 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
29 | Ledwith and Crothers were described as window cleaners , and it was alleged that while one of them was inside a telephone box and the other was outside , P. C.s Roberts and Pearce arrested them and took them to the Bridewell . |
30 | They arrived with a flourish , laid the cases on the floor , opened them and dragged them around the room to be oh 'd and ah 'd over by the guests . |