Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His seeking for single solutions coarsened his thinking and sank into abstraction . |
| 2 | She threw her arms round the horse 's neck and in return , it flicked its ears and snickered with pleasure . |
| 3 | To determine the origin of the cloned IRS-PCR products , amplification products were used as probes and hybridized to Sfi I partially digested GM06318 DNA ; all 7 products tested hybridized to a fragment between 600 and 670 kb in size and multiple smaller fragments ( data not shown ) . |
| 4 | One of his villain mates , Morrie Dubedat , set up the deal and vouched for dad 's punt … |
| 5 | I got into bed beside my sleeping daughter , peeled aside all but one of the covers and went to sleep . |
| 6 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 7 | Neighbours in Emlyn Road , Mayhill , Swansea , persuaded her to jump into their arms after she ran to a front bedroom and screamed for help . |
| 8 | The whole mass dropped into the pit and a moment later the big slab was snatched up by several dozen tentacles and slammed into place , leaving a number of thrashing limbs trapped around the edge . |
| 9 | The old nun was as imperious as ever but she visibly thawed when she saw Corbett and beamed with pleasure at his gift . |
| 10 | Benstede leaned across the table to talk further but , aware of the growing interest of neighbours , stared knowingly at Corbett and lapsed into silence . |
| 11 | Therefore , an individual can be guilty of theft even though he had £1,000 in his purse and said on arrest that he would pay for the items shoplifted . |
| 12 | She opened her eyes and froze with horror and disbelief at the sight of a vast creature staring down at her with green eyes each as big as a lilypond . |
| 13 | She worked for a while in a shop , then she began to have trouble with her eyes and took in work at home . |
| 14 | I closed my eyes and began to pole . |
| 15 | He closed his eyes and bayed in anguish . |
| 16 | Then she opened her eyes and focused on Rain . |
| 17 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
| 18 | Came down Halam Hill and went down School Lane . |
| 19 | Matlock was convicted of murder and died in prison . |
| 20 | She has had a hit song with Roberta Flack and worked on material for , among others , Marvin Hamlisch and Spencer Jones . |
| 21 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 22 | The police and ambulancemen arrived on the scene minutes earlier than the fire brigade and swung into action when they learned that an unconscious woman was trapped in the house . |
| 23 | I was brought up in liberal Anglicanism and lapsed into unbelief and active opposition before being converted in an evangelical Anglican church at the age of twenty-four . |
| 24 | The crowds , eventually numbering in the thousands , evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town , disrupting traffic while shouting ‘ No blood for oil ’ and finally rallying at the United Nations building . |
| 25 | In Peking he contacted missionaries and asked for baptism . |
| 26 | The man looked half mad with fear and spoke with difficulty . |
| 27 | Intrigued , I wrote to the US Navy Department and received in reply a copy of Ensign Smith 's report on the operation . |
| 28 | A lump of mud flew over our heads and exploded in front of me . |
| 29 | Penry lifted her aboard , then untied the moorings and leapt on deck after her . |
| 30 | He poured another cup of tea and sat in dejection in the kitchen . |