Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 3 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 5 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 6 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 7 | , but Benguiat took it as like a threat to and went after him in the lobby of hall and they had to be prised apart . |
| 8 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 9 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 10 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 11 | Have we always seen such change and uncertainty and responded to it in the same way ? |
| 12 | Instead he was still with the group when Jesus came and stood with them in the upper room ; he was still there , crucially , when Christ questioned him searchingly . |
| 13 | She crossed the room and sat opposite him in the ratty old armchair . |