Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They recorded the usual four songs and gave them both English and Ukrainian names . |
| 2 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh 's gloved hands slipped between the covers and flipped it open . |
| 4 | During his tour the French government , on Oct. 30 , officially reiterated its recognition of him as Haiti 's President and offered him political asylum . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people . |
| 7 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 8 | She got a cardigan and walked him all the way out the lane . |
| 9 | The farmers gathered then at the gates of the local authority offices and forced them open . |
| 10 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Something changed in his face then , some fleeting spectre that drained the life from his eyes and left them cold and hard . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Instead , you looked straight into their eyes and made it clear that you had absolutely no desire to wallow in the mud with them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Pamela had joined the youth club and found it enjoyable . |
| 17 | She closed the door ; she was going to close it completely , but she changed her mind and left it open a few inches . |
| 18 | He grabbed the poor creature by the neck and drew him close , then gazed savagely across at us . |
| 19 | Had I been an IRA man , I could have pulled out my little Luger and shot him dead — a thought so unnerving that the next day I wrote to his private secretary to suggest improved security . |
| 20 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 21 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 22 | Jim reached into her mouth and prised it open enough to pull the tongue forward . |
| 23 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 24 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 25 | Thus , Worrall and Pease ( 1996 : 196 ) , examining the steep rise in prison numbers in 1985 , found that the most plausible , if speculative explanation was that ‘ a general penal climate in Great Britain has permeated sentencing practice and made it harsher ’ . |
| 26 | The guidelines have been drawn up carefully by care assistants and managers who have put them into practice and found them useful themselves . |
| 27 | He went up to see Ivan and found him asleep . |
| 28 | A man called Rodrigo Paestra has discovered his nineteen-year-old wife with a lover and shot them both . |
| 29 | They took the keys and the car and left me stranded . ’ |
| 30 | When they disembarked at Algeciras , the Spanish customs officers searched the car and made them open their luggage . |