Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then he restrained himself and said in a quiet voice , ‘ Know anythin' about sailin' ? ’ |
| 2 | Patrick answered the door himself and smiled in delight as he saw Kate on his doorstep . |
| 3 | People smiled at me and sang in the streets . |
| 4 | And er I brought one or two pieces with me and stuck in there . |
| 5 | We reached Mandalay and I went straight to the Winchester Mission where dear Willie Garrad looked shocked to see me and said in a scandalised voice , ‘ Oh , but you ca n't possibly stay here ’ — it was a Brotherhood you see ! |
| 6 | As I took in the traffic thundering by beneath me and relived in my mind my alarming experience , my trepidation returned . |
| 7 | He turned his head slightly towards me and spoke in the direction of my tie . |
| 8 | It bounced and rolled between them and lay in the shadow of the chair . |
| 9 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 10 | I have told them time and time again and the people have endorsed them and endorsed in voting pattern by giving me eighty nine percent of the vote . |
| 11 | The archaeologist ran in front of them and stood in the middle of the road . |
| 12 | Woolley turned his back on them and sat in the middle of the cloth . |
| 13 | He then merged his organisation with the British Seafarers to form the Amalgamated Marine Workers ' Union , enjoying a brief relationship with its leaders Lewis and Shinwell until 1925 when he abandoned them and threw in his lot with Wilson as an official of the NSFU . |
| 14 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 15 | Employed in a maisonette in a London suburb , she ate by herself and slept in the junk room , enduring agonies of loneliness and misery . |
| 16 | Then she excused herself and went in search of a strong cup of tea . |
| 17 | The 6ft carpet snake crept into Calan Lavender 's bed , wrapped its body around him and plunged in its fangs . |
| 18 | This decision has provoked much animus among many who knew him and believed in him , sustaining the view that he had planned to ditch the Labour government . |
| 19 | Some , however , did receive Him and believed in Him ; so he gave them the right to become God 's children . |
| 20 | But Modigliani did not forget and in 1915 , when Indenbaum met him in Montparnasse , looking pale and unshaven , Modi came up to him and said in a hoarse voice , ‘ I 'm going to paint your portrait . ’ |
| 21 | I leaned over him and said in a different tone , " Do you know where Toby is ? " |
| 22 | Tavalouze sidled up behind him and said in a low voice , ‘ Remove your hood , the veil . |
| 23 | Werewolf softly whistled Mark Knopfler 's Going Home from Local Hero and did n't stop even when Jenkins walked up to him and said in a plummy voice : |
| 24 | But to his dismay , she left him and fell in love with Peter . |
| 25 | He put his hand in his jacket pocket , searching for his wallet , and as he did , Doug , serious now , yanked Harry towards him and whispered in tones from which all traces of his cockney accent were now absent . |
| 26 | Suddenly the old man grabbed him and whispered in his ear , ‘ Shh ! |
| 27 | When the British king of Gwynedd in north Wales , Cadwallon ap Cadfan , invaded Eadwine 's territory in 633 or 634 , Penda joined him and participated in the overthrow of Eadwine in battle at Hatfield Chase ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 28 | Rostov asked one of the guards if the man sitting on the cart was the Khan , but the trooper only grinned insolently at him and replied in his own tongue . |
| 29 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 30 | I went with him and sat in his music-room and listened to him play the D minor English suite . |