Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 2 | All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true ! |
| 3 | A thing slid hugely over the crest of a nearby ridge , and gazed at me from several eyes . |
| 4 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 5 | I tell you one thing I 'm slightly starting to regret inviting my girlfriend to come and stay with me for three weeks in France . |
| 6 | There I found the author of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick sipping mineral water , tapping a hand-drum and singing to himself in 17th-century verse . |
| 7 | ‘ More like a full metamorphosis , ’ he drawled , leaning back against the huge , craggy trunk of the tree and gazing at her with wicked eyes . |
| 8 | When they arrived the hospital team changed tack and referred to them about all matters with regard to the girl 's care because they were the next of kin . |
| 9 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 10 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 11 | Shock made her cry out , and he closed the door and moved towards her in quick strides , putting his hand across her mouth to stop-her scream . |
| 12 | Sometimes we find things like the Moan Lisa , which have been denigrated and used in lots of different ways , but some people when they see it are still overpowered by the beauty of the object . |
| 13 | As we discovered in Part One , many of the initiators of conflict in later life are learned and impressed upon us at this vital period . |
| 14 | A generation ago these two were roughtly equally important , and walking from one to another was acceptable . |
| 15 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 16 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 17 | Even though hooded by shadow , Blanche sensed Urquhart 's eyes narrow and bore into her like hungry grubs . |
| 18 | Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes . |
| 19 | So from my point of view it 's very important to have contact with head teachers and to talk with them about these things , and to create a situation in which they can talk to each other . |
| 20 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 21 | Deminex UK , which has secured another Liverpool Bay licence , has been exploring fields since 1972 and operating on them since 1977 . |
| 22 | His special preserve was Cwm Idwal , and to be shown round that magnificent place , to have its intimacies and grand structure both explained and revealed to you by this gentle , wise old quarryman was one of life 's great pleasures , to be stored and cherished in memory . |
| 23 | To any casual observer it would have been a very comical sight A six foot one inch hulk of a man cavorting about and shouting at nothing in particular in a moonlit pool . |
| 24 | He got up and came at me with surprising speed , but suddenly the Hispaniola hit the sand and went over on one side . |
| 25 | Quigley gave what I can only describe as an eldritch screech and came at me with both arms , legs and the front bit of his head . |
| 26 | I just thought I 'd come up and speak to you about that . |
| 27 | I just thought I 'd come up and speak to you about that . |
| 28 | Drain peas , place in a large pan and cover with plenty of clean water . |
| 29 | She found herself opening her eyes , and looking at him with dazed longing . |
| 30 | At other times , mostly when he smiled in that particular way of Tyler 's , leaning his head sideways and looking at her with incredible love in his sparkling green eyes , she found it unbelievably painful . |