Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 2 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 3 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 4 | He read this and showed it to his wife and on the following day asked questions . |
| 5 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew you had obtained this and gave it to … er … |
| 7 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 8 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 9 | She lifted off a heavy daily and brought it to me . |
| 10 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 11 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 12 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , Hamilton suggested crisply that they had got it wrong and left it at that . |
| 14 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 15 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 16 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 17 | Maxim scouted the cottage to make sure it was empty then helped George over the comer of the dry-stone wall where it seemed strongest and guided him under a face-high clothes-line strung across the little lawn . |
| 18 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 19 | He pushed the dress free and lifted her into his arms , walking to the bed , and Maggie made a small whimpering noise she did n't even recognise , a softly feminine noise of submission . |
| 20 | He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate , fumbling in his jacket pocket for something . |
| 21 | His body shuddered , and then his tolerance disintegrated and he wrenched his arms free and wrapped them round her , holding her hard against him . |
| 22 | Scott reached slowly inside his jacket then pulled the Beretta free and handed it to Hitch , who gripped the automatic in his fist and checked that the magazine was full , slipping it from the butt . |
| 23 | The sentence trailed off as Hitch pulled the Beretta free and aimed it at the crewman . |
| 24 | I pulled it free and found it to be sand-frosted and pear-shaped , like the one Nicky had shown me . |
| 25 | He pulled the pistol free and shoved it against Hitch 's cheek . |
| 26 | He pulled the video-cassette free and gripped it in his free hand , the pistol still trained on the tall |
| 27 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 28 | He poured her some and handed it to her . |
| 29 | He collected some and showed them to a friend who worked in the Geology Department of the Royal Museum , Chambers Street in Edinburgh . |
| 30 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |