Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 2 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 3 | A representative sample of the adult British population was asked : ‘ If the company you work for had to move its premises , do you think you would or would not move with it and find a new home if it moved more than 50 miles away and gave you financial help to move ? ’ |
| 4 | She was teasing , but I answered , ‘ I 'd guess Mercer assured the waiter he would n't be fired and took him aside and gave him twenty dollars . ’ |
| 5 | The lady at the dole office was nicely dressed in flowered cotton , she 'd seen Alex cry once and got her some tissues and everything was suddenly made easy . |
| 6 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 7 | Twenty-one when she met Peter , she married him two years later and left him six years after that . |
| 8 | When her husband began to sing a little , snapping his fingers in rhythm , she smiled and for a moment looked like a young girl again ; but the barman came immediately and reminded them that singing was not permitted . |
| 9 | Father Peter waved them back to their seats and went across and poured them generous stoups of ale from the jar just outside the small buttery door . |
| 10 | He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it . |
| 11 | The pair ignored us completely and gave us superb views of yet another extremely rare endemic bird of the Seychelles . |
| 12 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |