Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman at the door raised weary , gold-lidded eyes and gave her an anonymous welcoming smile . |
| 2 | I opened my eyes and gave him a puzzled look . |
| 3 | He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber . |
| 4 | And thus I was brought , by the gracious providence of God , to that place which had the chiefest of my labours and yielded me the greatest fruits of comfort . ’ |
| 5 | They shared a commiserating smile , and Mick put his arm around her shoulders and gave her a friendly hug . |
| 6 | He shrugged his broad shoulders and gave her a warm smile . |
| 7 | Some grain of self-preserving sense must have penetrated Rickie 's skull , for he suddenly dropped on to his heels and offered me a placatory grin . |
| 8 | Eventually I fell on my knees and called him a fucking bastard , and he just laughed . |
| 9 | Thacker put his hands back in his pockets and gave her a pitying look . |
| 10 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 11 | He stared back and , blushing with confusion , she rose to her feet and gave him a little bob . |
| 12 | Any account of English book illustration would be inadequate without a tribute to Edmund Evans ( 1826–1905 ) who brought to a wonderful peak of success the revival of the art of colour printing from wood blocks and gave us the delightful colour plate books of Kate Greenaway , ’ Richard E. Doyle , Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane . |
| 13 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 14 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 15 | Amazed that the little machine had brought us so far , he gave me his prayer beads and wished us a safe trip , ‘ Allah willing ’ . |
| 16 | The man wiped his hands ineffectually on his hips and gave her a limp handshake . |
| 17 | A combination of clerical opposition and papal objections thwarted his attempts to tax the clergy directly , but to the king Winchelsey constituted a far greater problem than the pope who , susceptible to more and wider pressures , gradually modified his objections to Edward 's aims and granted him a papal tenth in 1301 . |
| 18 | The waiter brought two tall glasses and filled them a good way up with Courvoisier . |
| 19 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 20 | His matter of factness suddenly evaporated , and he took her in his arms and gave her a passionate kiss which said : ‘ I 'm glad you 're coming . ’ |
| 21 | Katja Müller blinked back her tears and shot him an angry glance . |
| 22 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 23 | He sat on it with the two little girls and gave them a big smile . |
| 24 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 25 | He raised his eyebrows and gave her a cool stare . |
| 26 | Mr Farquharson claimed in a recent interview in the Sun that Miss Bonham-Carter had replied four times to his letters and sent him a signed photo with a kiss . |
| 27 | Then they brought in a couple of supporting interrogators and gave me the third degree . |
| 28 | I handed over a plethora of retirement gifts from her colleagues and wished her a long and happy retirement . |