Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 2 | True , it had taken her several minutes to decide whether the keys should be bunched or splayed but she had ceased fidgeting with them and settled into an abnormal quietude . |
| 3 | Cranston and Athelstan pushed by him and hammered at the great gate . |
| 4 | A councillor resigns his office by notice in writing signed by him and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the authority , except in the case of a parish , town or community councillor when it should be addressed to the chairman of the council . |
| 5 | Exulting in her escape , she closed the outer door behind her and made for the great outdoors like a child let out of school . |
| 6 | Going to a built-in wardrobe he opened it and flicked through the many articles of clothing hanging there . |
| 7 | Chesarynth sensed it and realized for the first time that what she was hearing was nothing but verbally-trimmed ideas . |
| 8 | Henrietta 's brow was high , and her hair was scraped back from it and secured by an intricate velvet ribbon in a smooth , elaborate chignon : a Bambi head , a skull head , a too , too thin head , an over-bred head , a painful head . |
| 9 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
| 10 | A total of 35 blocks were judged too sensitive to mine and excluded from the 14th licensing round . |
| 11 | If we are to succeed as teachers ( or parents ) we must accept that children may well be brighter than us and blessed with a potential far beyond our own . |