Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 2 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 3 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 4 | But he gave much of his time to them and showered them with expensive gifts . |
| 5 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 6 | Although his chains still held him tight , the slavers grabbed him and burnt him with searing irons . |
| 7 | OK , we 'll flush him and put him on forced diuresis . |
| 8 | It 's a crazy thing where one child pretends to be a carrot and the others top and tail him and put him in boiling water . |
| 9 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 10 | The woman escaped and ran to a motorist after her assailant grabbed her and dragged her into private gardens . |
| 11 | So you and your family hatched a plot whereby you flirted with her and turned her stupid , innocent head ; where you pawed her and manoeuvred her into private corners until she did n't know what was happening to her ! |
| 12 | But at this thought rage grasped her and shook her with red-hot hands , so that her eyes went dark and she found herself walking fast up the road , and then along another , and another , walking as though she would explode if she stopped . |
| 13 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |