Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was glad of Everthorpe 's guidance , though she disliked his manners and resented his evident desire to stage-manage her arrival at Pringle 's . |
| 2 | But they were very friendly , and sang songs and told her many stories about their lives . |
| 3 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 4 | The explosion hurt her ears and flooded her closed eyes with red light . |
| 5 | He then staggered uphill to a courting couple and pleaded : ‘ Help me , I think they have murdered my girlfriend and burned her alive . ’ |
| 6 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 7 | In some places the Afro-Caribbean community has composed Mass settings and produced its own hymn books . |
| 8 | Muttering under her breath , she flung back the covers and swung her long legs out of bed , the flimsy material of her nightdress caressing her thighs as she padded barefoot to the kitchen to fetch a couple of aspirin . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh 's gloved hands slipped between the covers and flipped it open . |
| 10 | I could of done the same at home , I would of liked to have looked after Neil and kept my own electric |
| 11 | They were both weak kings who gave generous patronage to foreigners and annoyed their own barons … neither had any military ability to speak of . ’ |
| 12 | He joined us from a Derbyshire side near his native Tibshelf and made his Southern League debut at Bristol Rovers oh 7 December — and what a debut it turned out to be ! |
| 13 | During his tour the French government , on Oct. 30 , officially reiterated its recognition of him as Haiti 's President and offered him political asylum . |
| 14 | I nearly slipped up there Dick I , I , ick I nearly slipped up there President and called them slippery dog-eared toe-rags , I 'm glad I avoided that one |
| 15 | The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people . |
| 16 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 17 | She got a cardigan and walked him all the way out the lane . |
| 18 | The farmers gathered then at the gates of the local authority offices and forced them open . |
| 19 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 20 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 21 | But wife Susan , 47 , denied her husband had AIDS and blamed his two-stone weight loss on a perforated stomach ulcer . |
| 22 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 23 | Something changed in his face then , some fleeting spectre that drained the life from his eyes and left them cold and hard . |
| 24 | Corbett gazed into the eyes and sensed something evil ; whatever Thomas said , there was a malevolence here . |
| 25 | In the pool of silence which fell between them Laura raised her eyes and took her first good , clear look at the man she had married , and whom she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 26 | Corbett closed his eyes and made his own prayer , sending it up into the void . |
| 27 | Dr Walter Kilner developed some screens filled with a dicyanin solution which sensitized the eyes and made it easier for more people to see the aura . |
| 28 | Instead , you looked straight into their eyes and made it clear that you had absolutely no desire to wallow in the mud with them . |
| 29 | Seeing the first signs of salt water he was landed on by lots of flies which got into his eyes and irritated him more than the dust . |
| 30 | While his retainers squatted noiselessly behind him , the Tominah advanced to the edge of a rock overlooking the pool by about six feet , closed his eyes and opened his betel-nut-rouged mouth . |