Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] and [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told enough boring stories about them and ended each office day with : ‘ I must go or my children will be afraid I 've got lost . ’ |
| 2 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
| 3 | She won two academy awards , had two Broadway theatres named after her and wrote two novels and an autobiography . |
| 4 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
| 5 | He raised his eyes , morosely , as Morse took Dixon 's seat opposite him and pulled another chair alongside for a very blonde young WPC , who amongst other accomplishments was the only person in St Aldate 's HQ with a Pitman shorthand qualification for 130 w.p.m . |
| 6 | He came towards her and put both hands on her shoulders . |
| 7 | This was a small mercy for those who fell foul of her and faced ruined careers or worse . |
| 8 | He saw 2 cars in front of him and said one car , which was driven by Anthony Gallagher , had indicated left but pulled out in front of him . |
| 9 | The Bank of England stepped in , took over the running of it and provided sufficient loans to cover the demands of its creditors . |
| 10 | Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory . |
| 11 | Alexandra Palace and Park , the latest company willing to take up the baton , has been administering a relaunch for the premises through the offices of Bizat , a genial exhibitions and catering specialist , who had been at the place only 11 weeks , in 1980 , when afire near the great organ gutted much of it and necessitated major reconstruction . |
| 12 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
| 13 | Calvert favoured large investors who would bring indentured servants with them and granted large manors to these planters . |
| 14 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 15 | He had this little stylophone with him and played both parts , because ‘ Space Oddity ’ was originally written as a duet for him and Hutch who was his partner in Feathers , the mixed media group , and when David split with Hermione , he and Hutch were working as a duet . |
| 16 | Casabona denied the offences and said the girl willingly had sex with him and had several chances to leave the car . |
| 17 | McCandless kept the woman with him and reached another rock , to which he clung totally exhausted . |
| 18 | Anyway , I met Salinger in London to go over the story with him and confirmed those parts of it I knew to be true . |
| 19 | However , with the Palace back in the 3rd Division South in 1925 , Cec had what was certainly his best season with us and hit two hat-tricks among his tally of 19 goals , which made him our second highest scorer that term . |
| 20 | ‘ It has been lowered over my head many times , and then , as I have reached up to smite it , it has passed before me and consumed many people . |
| 21 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 22 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And I only wish that I was family and so could be of help to you and had some rights to see you . |
| 24 | He looked beyond her and lifted one finger in a beckoning gesture . |
| 25 | Always short of money , Pound in the twenties found one outlet after another closed to him and had great difficulty making ends meet . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh saw Theresa slip her hand into his while one of the twins moved closer to him and clasped both arms firmly round one of his legs . |
| 27 | Carol crossed to him and slipped one hand inside his dressing gown , stroking his stomach . |
| 28 | Martia was aged twenty-two at the time we spoke to her and had two children : Sasha , sixteen months and Tanya , two months . |
| 29 | Alex turned to her and spoke each word loudly and clearly as if she were a subnormal child . |
| 30 | She turned on him and hissed that Bunny was watching . |