Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb past] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel took Elisabeth 's hands in his and turned them palm up . |
| 2 | Tony 's mother sounds English to me and promised me tickets for next years FA Cup final . |
| 3 | After I run away again , I 'ad real hard times and was nearly starvin' the night you walked into me and did me ankle in . |
| 4 | With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies ’ ( Eph. 2:14 , 15 ) . |
| 5 | He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs . |
| 6 | John Dalton eventually elicited the truth of his identity from him and offered him sanctuary as a hermit in his own home ( perhaps Richard had been reconnoitring in his disappearance before dinner ) and at his own expense . |
| 7 | Their parting of the ways was a costly exercise for him and left him £20 million poorer after a pali-mony settlement . |
| 8 | Taskopruzade writes : " Then [ Sultan Mehmed ] made him kazasker , then he removed him and made him Mufti . |
| 9 | Many of the cities of central Italy were nominally under papal suzerainty — and they sometimes actually obeyed him and paid him tribute ; but effective conquest lay in the future . |
| 10 | Every morning at eight-thirty , a servant girl woke him and gave him breakfast on a tray . |
| 11 | The old couple , poor as they were , took pity on him and gave him food to eat and water to drink . |
| 12 | All the Argentines adored him and nicknamed him Señor Gracias because he was so grateful for the smallest favour . |
| 13 | Becky allowed them to dress her and kissed them goodbye . |
| 14 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 15 | He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more . |
| 16 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
| 17 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 18 | Last night he told TODAY : ‘ We were able to trace Watson after a member of the public contacted us and gave us information which suggested he was responsible for these attacks . |