Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | Dalgliesh 's gloved hands slipped between the covers and flipped it open . |
| 3 | The farmers gathered then at the gates of the local authority offices and forced them open . |
| 4 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 5 | Something changed in his face then , some fleeting spectre that drained the life from his eyes and left them cold and hard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Instead , you looked straight into their eyes and made it clear that you had absolutely no desire to wallow in the mud with them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | She came a step closer , rested her hands lightly on his shoulders and kissed him full on the mouth . |
| 11 | His voice dropped to a low note of affection as he slid an arm around her shoulders and drew her close to his side . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , now , it 's not been as bad as that , ’ he said , shamefaced , and laid his arm awkwardly round her shoulders and drew her close to him . |
| 13 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 14 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 15 | Last year , remember , she did up some of the bedrooms and had them decorated , her brother decorated them and also she did the erm the tables , remember , she stripped back some tables and varnished them and she made a lovely job . |
| 16 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 17 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 18 | He has measured noble gases trapped within the meteorites and found them similar in composition to the Martian atmosphere analysed by NASA 's Viking landers . |
| 19 | Slowly , I took my fists out of my pockets and opened them empty . |
| 20 | Both Harald and Swegen had taken Slavonic consorts and thought it desirable to subjugate Norway . |
| 21 | She put us back on our feet and made it possible for us to live again . |
| 22 | His return fire lifted Weaver off his feet and flung him two yards backwards , to sprawl at Bodie 's feet as Bodie came racing through the side garden . |
| 23 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 24 | His long fever had peeled the flesh from his bones and left him half his proper bulk , and the brown of his cheeks was yellow and drawn . |
| 25 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 26 | All volunteers ( n:18 ) ate the breakfast within 15 minutes and found it palatable . |
| 27 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 28 | She also had strong opinions and found it hard to " brook any delay or frustration . |
| 29 | ‘ If we continued down this road here , we 'd still reach the Fire Court , ’ said Snodgrass , who was quite good at maps and found them interesting . |
| 30 | Had clear rules and made them explicit |