Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For those of us who focused our energies on lesbian and feminists issues we were to find ourselves marginalized and isolated in English feminist groups , amongst women whose racism mirrored the population at large .
2 The train was a shabby affair of two antique carriages which creaked and pitched like tethered ships .
3 Someone y'kin talk into givin' himself up when he finds himself cornered and surrounded by armed cops , an ’ he gits to feelin' scared an' sorry fer himself .
4 Towards the end of each I will describe a recent example of a person who lived and suffered in such a way .
5 The young boy quickly became an authority on who received and dealt in stolen goods in London , who specialized in watches , clothes , foreign money , rings .
6 ‘ Enjoyed while they lasted and ended by mutual consent when the time came to move on , usually because both the woman concerned and I knew from the start that it was n't going to be a lifelong affair . ’
7 In addition , numerical modelling of the geochemical trends indicates that within one cycle the magma may have evolved by inputs of discrete batches of primary peridotitic partial melt that fractionated as it rose and mixed with earlier magma prior to eruption .
8 Green blood spurted wildly into the air , much of it landing into the stew pot where it fizzed and crackled like little gun shots .
9 It bubbled and steamed like corrosive acid .
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