Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We called and shouted and sailed our little boat as fast as we could . |
| 2 | She designed and made her own clothes , sometimes colouring the fabric with home-made dyes ; this gave the articles a most individual style and character . |
| 3 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 4 | His eyes were a warm clear blue as they fixed and held her dark ones . |
| 5 | They jangled when she moved and brushed her creamy shoulders each time she turned her head . |
| 6 | Stephanie unwound it like a cocoon , stroked and spread its spiky boughs , spent time and effort stabilising it in a bucket of earth with the weight from the kitchen scales . |
| 7 | As she stroked and caressed his own fingertips traced spirals of fire down into her groin . |
| 8 | Dr Neil thought that the way she occasionally trod on phrases when she spoke was charming rather than irritating , given that it enlivened and illuminated her forthright nature . |
| 9 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 10 | Nina bent and unbent her bare arm . |
| 11 | But when she had joined Sausage , who had been waiting for her outside , she bent and stroked his curly head , and two large tears rolled down her cheeks and splashed on to his fur . |
| 12 | Outside in the darkness Dong stopped and pressed his shivering brother against the flimsy wall of the barrack . |
| 13 | In the middle of the crowded path , Lady Campbell stopped and reared her rawboned head like a balking horse , neighing , ‘ And the bridegroom ? |
| 14 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 15 | He was in a field , and picked out what he thought was a wood , to which he headed and placed his unwanted gear in a ditch , covering it with tufts or grass . |
| 16 | Diana recognised and relished her new-found authority . |
| 17 | She grew a little confused as to which was day and which was night , and increasingly wanted Alexandra there , calling for her in her faint cracked voice , if she woke and found her customary chair empty . |
| 18 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 19 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 20 | ‘ I struggled and twisted and got my right hand free . |
| 21 | The lych-gate creaked and left its prickly signature of rust upon the palm ( I 'll get it fixed , Ma 'm ! ) ; the bell rang not at all unless obliquely pressed by a nor'-nor'-westerly thumb . |
| 22 | Entering from under the pit of his arm it pierced and split his left shoulder joint , and his body swivelled slowly into an upright position , suspended on the horn . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's unbelievable , ’ said Mrs Stephens , as she hugged and kissed her deeply-tanned daughter . |
| 24 | Two days before he tortured Doe to death , Mr Johnson hugged and embraced his future victim , and told him that they should join sides . |
| 25 | These wolf calls middle peasants because , although they were squatting illegally on the land , in practice they owned and worked their small plots . |
| 26 | That and the fees for Coroner 's post-mortems provided an income which was one of the reasons why his professional colleagues in the pathology department of the district general hospital both envied and resented his unpredictable absences on police work , the long days in court , the inevitable publicity . |
| 27 | Charlie read and re-read his banal offering , aware that although he extolled Tommy 's courage during the battle he made no mention of Trentham fleeing from the enemy . |
| 28 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
| 29 | Fowler had not yet heard a word from Cissie , which perhaps explained why the old man asked and answered his own questions . |
| 30 | He subsequently fought and held his parliamentary seat against his former party . |