Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel . |
| 2 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 3 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 4 | And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference . |
| 5 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 6 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 7 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 8 | Now and then she lifted an eyeglass up and peered through it for a moment , and , evidently finding it useless at this distance , let it fall again , shaking her head in a frustrated way . |
| 9 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |
| 10 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 11 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 12 | As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house . |
| 13 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 14 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 15 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 16 | Then she jumped up from the bed before he could grab her again and darted past him to the window . |
| 17 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 18 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 19 | As relief spread to pure pleasure she waved and came towards him across the yard like a young girl . |
| 20 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 21 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 22 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 23 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 24 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 25 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 26 | Having reached the most distant onlookers , a young couple pushing up-and-down a baby in a pram , the girl drew tight the neck of the bag and strolled with it to the stage . |
| 27 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 28 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 29 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
| 30 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |