Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , a number of years later , I have seen some of God 's plans for them come about and realize how much he has cared for them and kept them safe . |
| 2 | There were several questions I would have liked to have put to them , but had I done so I would have altered the environment for them and made them hyper-conscious of their limitations . |
| 3 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 4 | As he began to shout his reply , he only managed the words , ‘ Bloody tacky , ’ when , at the sound of his raised voice close to her ear , Daisy swung her head towards him and caught him full in the chest with her nose . |
| 5 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 6 | A motor horn sounded off behind me and scared me silly . |
| 7 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 8 | ‘ My good fortune lay in working with great men who were patient with me and taught me good habits that were never to be forgotten . |
| 9 | But she also denied knowing Dassac , and the police subsequently discovered that she had had numerous telephone conversations with him and paid him large sums of money under a false name through a Swiss bank account . |
| 10 | And through this , Charles inspired awe in those who fought along with him and encouraged them all to a confident hope that things would go well for them . |
| 11 | And they added onto it and made it bigger since . |
| 12 | But the marketing agencies of all three countries have recently unveiled multi-million pound promotional campaigns for the British market within recent weeks , which would appear to indicate they have researched the market and consumer response within it and found it worthwhile . |
| 13 | Her thin lips clasped tight together , fearing any sound might betray her , she hooked her legs about him and pulled him further and further into her . |
| 14 | His abilities impressed A. C. Headlam [ q.v. ] , principal of King 's College , London , who secured lectureships in ecclesiastical history ( 1905–11 ) and patristics ( 1911–18 ) for him and made him sub-editor ( 1903–18 ) and later joint editor ( 1921–7 ) of the Church Quarterly Review . |
| 15 | Iorwerth reached out of the leaves for him and choked him mute , but the damage was done . |
| 16 | The events of the year seemed to have washed over them and left them unaltered . |
| 17 | Altogether , the tour gave the Indians maximum exposure to me and gave me maximum exposure to the ELT situation in India . |
| 18 | He took them off , breathed on them and polished them clean with his handkerchief , which was now very dirty . |
| 19 | And then I took pity on him and lent him forty . |
| 20 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 21 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 22 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 23 | She smiled at me and gave me two small ones and I followed her to their house . |