Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 2 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 3 | She hoped he would approve of her smart black dress and the way she had pulled her hair back from her face and pinned it in a classical knot at the back of her head . |
| 4 | If Alison Watt , poor little sausage , had measured the Queen Mum from ear to ear , and got everything in the right place in the same picture , people would probably tell her she was a genius . |
| 5 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 6 | She took off everything that could identify her , and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box . |
| 7 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 8 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 9 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 10 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 11 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 12 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 13 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 14 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 15 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 16 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 17 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 18 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 19 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 20 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 21 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 22 | Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium . |
| 23 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 24 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 25 | Bernice followed him , and found herself in a square space behind the staircase . |
| 26 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 27 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 28 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 30 | Maura pushed her way through the adults and stationed herself in the front room next to the table piled high with food . |