Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't . |
| 2 | The men turned and entered her paint-peeled front door . |
| 3 | Sopworth smiled , extended the bottle and poured me another half inch . |
| 4 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 5 | Neither Brian nor I had told our mother about these beatings but now , incensed , I pulled up my shorts and showed him some half-healed scars . |
| 6 | I was full stretch on top of his grace when the eyelids rolled up and showed me two white lights . |
| 7 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 8 | And showed you this lovely land . |
| 9 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 10 | I found peasants who sheltered and fed me that next day . |
| 11 | Then she carefully made up her face and brushed her long auburn hair , the solemn wide-eyed child watching her every movement . |
| 12 | She seized on that with triumph and called him That Theatrical Type . |
| 13 | I nearly slipped up there Dick I , I , ick I nearly slipped up there President and called them slippery dog-eared toe-rags , I 'm glad I avoided that one |
| 14 | The international action made me aware of the necessity for international co-operation in the fight for the fundamental rights of man and reassured me that human compassion is still alive in this world . |
| 15 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 16 | It worked well , and gave me much more contact with my audience . |
| 17 | She turned to face me and gave me that vivid smile that transformed her already delightful face . |
| 18 | She smiled at me and gave me two small ones and I followed her to their house . |
| 19 | Neil invited me into his office — the only room in the building with even the vaguest resemblance to modern architectural demands — and gave me some cheap wine and a Benson & Hedges . |
| 20 | His passionate onslaught at the 1985 party conference against the Militants of Merseyside ( whom he accused of hiring taxis to hand out redundancy notices to their workers ) appealed to the unions and gave him new public stature . |
| 21 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 22 | And when they were espoused the King did them great honour , and gave them many noble gifts , and added to Rodrigo 's lands more than he had till then possessed : and he loved him greatly in his heart , because he saw that he was obedient to his commands , and for all that he had heard him say . |
| 23 | ’ And Trevor just turned round and gave it this tremendous kick . |
| 24 | A father instituted his son and daughter heirs and left them each prior legacies of certain lands and loan books . |
| 25 | Joscelyn shrugged and spread his one good hand , fingers splayed out . |