Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not supposed to bite you see , they 're supposed to chase and bark at someone and hold them there by barking and hope right that the police will turn up . |
| 2 | ourselves and do it anyway . |
| 3 | He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned . |
| 4 | But when she would have moved lower in her innocent foray Guy captured her hands with one of his and pinned them gently above her head . |
| 5 | Adam drew her arm through his and led her away , for she was half-blinded with tears . |
| 6 | She stood at the bottom of the bed and reached out her hands to catch his and pull them forward . |
| 7 | As they joined the other dancers , he caught her hand in his and whirled her round into his arms , smiling at the astonishment on her features . |
| 8 | Thomas took her hand in both his and stroked it gently . |
| 9 | He took her hand in his and stroked it gently , as he might an unhappy child 's . |
| 10 | A hand caught his and drew him quietly into the room . |
| 11 | He caught her hands in his and drew them over her head so that she lay open and vulnerable to him . |
| 12 | So , you see , all your fears are quite groundless , ’ he added earnestly , taking her hand in his and raising it warmly to his lips . |
| 13 | I do n't often get the chance to take out such an attractive young woman , ’ and put his hand on my knee , I put my hand on top of his and held it there . |
| 14 | Because they 'll drown themself and bring you down with them . |
| 15 | Then he drew her against himself and kissed her roughly . |
| 16 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 17 | He pulled the blanket from underneath himself and draped it over his shoulders . |
| 18 | He was reaching-for the blue directory when Anne came back with Abigail in her arms , so Adam took her and carried her back to bed himself and tucked her in and kissed her . |
| 19 | He landed the plane himself and taxied it over to where President and Mrs Sadat were waiting with a guard of honour , a twenty-one-gun salute , a military band to play the national anthems of Iran and Egypt , and a red carpet . |
| 20 | The entire cast held their breath , as if watching a tightrope-walker stumble , and all let out a sigh of relief when he managed to right himself and make it through to the end of the speech . |
| 21 | Sir John , it appeared , had retained a sufficiently fond memory of his cousin , and was , besides , so moved by her plight that he went himself and fetched her back to Switham . |
| 22 | Hearts chairman Wallace Mercer this week scrapped plans to buy the stadium himself and lease it back to Hearts . |
| 23 | the trunks on top of his trousers , unbuttons himself and pulls them down , and he gets , he 's er really , really awkward the way he does it and all the rest of it and gets , he finally gets his trousers off , pulls up his er trunks and your man gets up , pulls off his towel , gets out his white stick and |
| 24 | Rebecque brought the orders himself and handed them up to Sharpe who was already mounted . |
| 25 | Do n't try to counsel somebody and tell them how much income support they 're going to get . |
| 26 | To which and looking him straight in the face , she had answered , ‘ Do n't count on it , ever . ’ |
| 27 | When thou wast young , thou girdedst thyself and walkedst whither thou wouldst ; but when thou shalt be old , thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not . |
| 28 | Yet there remains an important element of truth in the observation , ‘ another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not ’ . |
| 29 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 30 | ‘ Later in the week he said he was falling in love with me and kissed me just before I got out of the car . |