Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | In some places the Afro-Caribbean community has composed Mass settings and produced its own hymn books . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dalgliesh 's gloved hands slipped between the covers and flipped it open . |
| 8 | They were both weak kings who gave generous patronage to foreigners and annoyed their own barons … neither had any military ability to speak of . ’ |
| 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 | Something changed in his face then , some fleeting spectre that drained the life from his eyes and left them cold and hard . |
| 12 | Corbett gazed into the eyes and sensed something evil ; whatever Thomas said , there was a malevolence here . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Corbett closed his eyes and made his own prayer , sending it up into the void . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Instead , you looked straight into their eyes and made it clear that you had absolutely no desire to wallow in the mud with them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He blinked his small eyes and stroked his handsome silver sides . |
| 20 | Kate read the expression in his eyes and parted her full lips to speak . |
| 21 | The robber at Bath Road had grabbed £45,000 after shooting the two guards and made his initial getaway on a moped , found , say the prosecution , at the point at which he 'd switched to a getaway car driven by the second man . |
| 22 | Unhurriedly Tod slipped out of his pyjamas and donned his fibrous dressing-gown . |
| 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 | Old women nodded their heads and chomped their false teeth , young men smiled sympathetically but no one could shed any light on the mysterious car accident that had killed his father . |
| 25 | They operated food kitchens and community counselling services , raised funds and organized their own picket lines . |
| 26 | It was spoken in Lowland Scotland for many centuries and generated our first literature , indeed , Europe 's first literature outside Latin and Greek . |
| 27 | Thereafter , the defendant must have pulled down her pants and tights and stabbed her private parts a number of times . |
| 28 | The bracelets on her ankles and wrists danced and rattled again more urgently and her pungent breath began blowing softly against his face as she spread her thighs and forced her smooth dark belly downward again his own . |
| 29 | She put her glass down on a rock and walked into the waters of the lough , gasping as it rose up her thighs and touched her lower belly . |
| 30 | We talked to a gatherer who had misjudged the tides and found himself unable to leave the cave for thirty-two days . |