Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My good fortune lay in working with great men who were patient with me and taught me good habits that were never to be forgotten . |
| 2 | The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome . |
| 3 | His long silence worried me and made me frightened . |
| 4 | Altogether , the tour gave the Indians maximum exposure to me and gave me maximum exposure to the ELT situation in India . |
| 5 | She paced me and paced me wrong . ’ |
| 6 | You have already judged me and found me guilty . |
| 7 | A motor horn sounded off behind me and scared me silly . |
| 8 | There were several questions I would have liked to have put to them , but had I done so I would have altered the environment for them and made them hyper-conscious of their limitations . |
| 9 | So the cat and the buzzard were added to their company , and the young lord looked after them all , fed them and kept them warm . |
| 10 | Now , a number of years later , I have seen some of God 's plans for them come about and realize how much he has cared for them and kept them safe . |
| 11 | The events of the year seemed to have washed over them and left them unaltered . |
| 12 | The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives . |
| 13 | He took them off , breathed on them and polished them clean with his handkerchief , which was now very dirty . |
| 14 | Yeah like , you can say something and got it wrong again . |
| 15 | Iorwerth reached out of the leaves for him and choked him mute , but the damage was done . |
| 16 | Villagers from the former location soon reached him and carried him shoulder-high in a triumphal procession . |
| 17 | His abilities impressed A. C. Headlam [ q.v. ] , principal of King 's College , London , who secured lectureships in ecclesiastical history ( 1905–11 ) and patristics ( 1911–18 ) for him and made him sub-editor ( 1903–18 ) and later joint editor ( 1921–7 ) of the Church Quarterly Review . |
| 18 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 19 | As he began to shout his reply , he only managed the words , ‘ Bloody tacky , ’ when , at the sound of his raised voice close to her ear , Daisy swung her head towards him and caught him full in the chest with her nose . |
| 20 | But she also denied knowing Dassac , and the police subsequently discovered that she had had numerous telephone conversations with him and paid him large sums of money under a false name through a Swiss bank account . |
| 21 | At last Jehan began to cry , and Burun rocked him and held him close . |
| 22 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 23 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 24 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 25 | Who he was she could n't say , because the room was too dark , but he must have left the front door open and the wind must have caught it and made it shut with a crash . |
| 26 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 27 | He knew he had simplified the matter when he said the six thousand would be sent abroad to the War — simplified it and coloured it blood-red . |
| 28 | My wife also read it and declared it superior to the equivalent magazine sent her by her old University — Oxford . |
| 29 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 30 | ’ He stared , then , with an enormous shrug of reluctance , he walked to the door , unbolted it and edged it open . |