Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had such nice manners and treated me like one of their own , so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones . |
| 2 | However , if we took our present population of farm animals and provided them with free-range conditions , this would have a severe effect on conservation in Britain . |
| 3 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 4 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 5 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 6 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 7 | He held her by the shoulders and kissed her in continental fashion on the cheeks . |
| 8 | They will have sorted bricks and arranged them in neat piles ( sorting and setting ) . |
| 9 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 10 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 11 | One girl 's facial impetigo had to be painted with ointment that stung the scabs and branded her with unsightly violet-coloured splotches for several weeks . |
| 12 | Morrissey printed his new image on to postcards and sent them to all his friends and closest followers . |
| 13 | On the porch outside the front door , I kicked off my sandals and pushed them to one side where they joined an already substantial pile of varying styles and sizes . |
| 14 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 15 | In addition , the commission claimed that García removed US$50,000,000 from the BCCI accounts and dispersed it in several of his own private bank accounts . |
| 16 | Thomas Cook himself , whose name was to become a by-word for organised tourism in the next twenty-five years , had begun his career arranging such outings and developed it into big business in 1851 . |
| 17 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 18 | Intrigued by the idea the RAC drew up some rules and submitted them to other car manufacturers . |
| 19 | Nazie , now of 155 Maxwell Drive , Pollokshields , and Ali , now of 2 Redhills , Lennoxtown , struck Mr McCallum , of 16 James Gray Street , Pollokshields , Glasgow , with hockey sticks and killed him in nearby Nithsdale Road on 6 August , 1991 . |
| 20 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 21 | Bradbury delivered a lecture to the Royal Institution of Great Britain on Nature-Printing : its Origin and Objects and published it in 1856 . |
| 22 | One or two of you sent in real song titles and ascribed them to particular people . |
| 23 | The foregoing considerations will , I hope , have been enough to show that , from the psychological point of view , it is no paradox that the political and social revolutions of modern times which have opposed traditional ( i. e. , paternal ) authorities and replaced them with more egalitarian ( i.e. , fraternal ) structures have also brought into being a massively enhanced state apparatus to feed the appetite for welfare provisions . |
| 24 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 25 | He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree . |
| 26 | The man in just the pullover put his hands on his hips and faced us in all his glory . |
| 27 | He stuffed his hands in his trouser-pockets and regarded her with enigmatic eyes . |
| 28 | I confined it to a hospital tank for two weeks and treated it with Aquarian Whitespot Remedy . |
| 29 | We 've put together some great hairstyle ideas and teamed them with beautiful outfits and accessories . |
| 30 | Reagan fired a handful of top EPA officials and replaced them with five fresh-faced outsiders . |