Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took her plump hand in his and repressed a shudder . |
| 2 | Roy , who was about four and had n't been used to drinking out of a glass , took a bite at his and broke a chunk out of it . |
| 3 | Quickly she pulled her hand away from his and opened the car door to scramble out . |
| 4 | He had not spoken to Miss Needham-Burrell himself and had no idea how old she was . |
| 5 | ‘ Looks like an Easter egg , ’ murmured Busacher to himself and heard a snort behind him . |
| 6 | Louis put a hand up to the boom to steady himself and crossed the cockpit to where Gomez lay on the cockpit sole like a beached grouper . |
| 7 | He was a virtual dictator but had to write every letter himself and took no leave for fifteen years . |
| 8 | He is married to a Spaniard , owns property in Spain , has worked there himself and made a fortune , too . |
| 9 | Fox executed the office of Secretary himself and made the Council 's Examiner , Thomas Sherer , his deputy as Clerk of the Council . |
| 10 | He then fired at Pc Kelly through the police car windscreen , and as the officer lay injured across the front seat walked up to the car , put his hand on the roof to steady himself and emptied the gun into the officer 's body . |
| 11 | He opened the door for her himself and dismissed the escort with a nod . |
| 12 | He nodded to himself and stroked the underside of his beard with the back of his hand . |
| 13 | Then he hailed another for himself and gave the driver the address of the Montrose . |
| 14 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 15 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
| 16 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |
| 17 | The fighting was too close for firearms ; the two men went down together in the darkness and wrestled until another American could discern which was which and hit the redhead hard with the butt of his Colt . |
| 18 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 19 | He is a lying bastard and he has just used me and wiped the floor with me . |
| 20 | I had no regrets as I slammed the door behind me and left the cottage for the last time . |
| 21 | I would 've liked to have looked after me and kept an eye on the rest with Paul . |
| 22 | Finally , he turned to me and asked a question , repeating it twice , in the same jumble of words and sounds which I could n't understand . |
| 23 | On the way out a visiting French person saw me and poked a finger at the shirt . |
| 24 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 25 | Suddenly a young man wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet rushed up behind me and stuck a revolver in the security guard 's face . |
| 26 | He pulled up about three yards from me and stuck the boat into full reverse to stop . |
| 27 | He flung it back , missed me and knocked a motto off the wall . |
| 28 | It all started when a man called Frank Somers wrote to me and enclosed a photograph of himself and his wife Pauline and their little girl called Hayley . |
| 29 | The Daily Telegraph carried a long story without mentioning my name , since Michael Berry was well disposed to me and had no wish to cause me embarrassment . |
| 30 | There 's work to be done in the world — so much to be found out — ’ He checked himself abruptly , lifted his glass at me and took a sip from it . |