Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 2 | He pounded Benichou to the body and caught him with a right cross to the chin at the end of the first . |
| 3 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 4 | After a reviving sip of coffee , she took a deep breath , flipped off her dark glasses , and fixed him with a level gaze . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll bring her , ’ said Caspar , and sat back and regarded them with the plump pleasure of a person who has reached a final decision . |
| 6 | The man held up a hand to silence Barak then turned to the guard beside him and dismissed him with a curt nod of the head . |
| 7 | Even so the men who stole a hundred pounds from him at his home in Witney still felt the need to punch and kick him and beat him with a wooden club . |
| 8 | Apart from helping with his wardrobe , LASMO also covered the costs of his tuition , accommodation and books , and provided him with a living allowance . |
| 9 | A second group of provincial delegates arrived in St Petersburg just after his appointment and provided him with a sympathetic audience for his opinions . |
| 10 | Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce . |
| 11 | Indirect Rule , then , with its implicit exaltation of the man-on-the-spot over the man in the central office , set the seal of legitimacy on the centrifugal tendencies long at work in the British Colonial Service , and provided them with a rational institutional expression independent of the existence of a frontier . |
| 12 | A legacy from a great-aunt had bought their house and provided her with a small income . |
| 13 | The work ranged from small debt collection to very large acquisitions and disposals for the four main divisions of the company , and provided me with a great variety of work which was predominantly commercial . |
| 14 | An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots . |
| 15 | She followed the film stills with a series which took the convention of the centrefold pin-up and twisted it with a gauche naturalness — creating an awkward , sharp , counter-attack on voyeurism . |
| 16 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 17 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
| 18 | And he picked up his hand of cards , and surveyed it with a bewildered distracted satisfaction . |
| 19 | He tapped the baton on the desk and dropped it with a loud clatter . |
| 20 | Tammuz put down the drinks and poked it with a cautious finger . |
| 21 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 22 | I 'd put the bike on the rack at the back and secured it with a bungy strap . |
| 23 | When he knocked at her door , she was ready , and opened it with a cool expression . |
| 24 | He saw Wycliffe and acknowledged him with a timid gesture . |
| 25 | The old cow turned and licked her with a huge , wet tongue until her blouse was damp all over the right shoulder , but it was not comforting . |
| 26 | Tom related the tale for the second time and followed it with the daring exploits of Pecos Bill from the comic Willie had chosen . |
| 27 | Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep . |
| 28 | She dragged her hair ruthlessly back and tied it with a narrow ribbon . |
| 29 | We found him in a night club with his wife , and Flynn went straight up to him and flattened him with a single punch . |
| 30 | ‘ OK , ’ said Patsy , and hit him with a perfect straight left . |