Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had left me and broken into a trot towards his block . |
| 2 | How dare he speculate on the subject , then write his conclusions on a document I must carry round with me and display for a month ? |
| 3 | ‘ I thought to myself , Martha must be growing up now , it 's time she left the country and came to live with me and go to a good school . ’ |
| 4 | We reached Mandalay and I went straight to the Winchester Mission where dear Willie Garrad looked shocked to see me and said in a scandalised voice , ‘ Oh , but you ca n't possibly stay here ’ — it was a Brotherhood you see ! |
| 5 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 6 | I 'd just lie on my back like Marie showed me and float like a fag packet . |
| 7 | My son , Robyn visited me and peered with a concerned , academic interest , and we came closer together than ever before . |
| 8 | Robert picked up a wineglass from the low table that stood between them and scratched with a fingernail at the dry stain on the bottom of the glass . |
| 9 | She could relax with them and pretend for a while that she was still one of them . |
| 10 | For the previous three years , Nottingham police forced an average 2,561 drivers a year to stop their cars , get out of them and blow into a plastic bag . |
| 11 | There is a simple sense that Coleridge is happy to write them , that although Kubla Khan has its savage side , it is a savage side in which he revels and although Frost at Midnight carries lonely memories ( particularly bitter to someone so desperate for love ) he overcomes them and thinks upon a happy future instead . |
| 12 | Then collect them and sow in a very shallow container like a dish or bowl containing a mixture of coarse sand and loam or fine peat or potting compost . |
| 13 | Passing beneath the arch the children felt the slope beneath them and tumbled into a trot , the echoes of their stamping feet sending the pigeons plummeting from their perches . |
| 14 | You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ? |
| 15 | Mothers with small children particularly hated them and longed for a house with a garden ( Gittus , 1976 ) . |
| 16 | She flings her great head at one of them and rests against a skull . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ Derby gave us plenty of problems when we drew there , but we stood up to them and worked for a result . |
| 18 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 19 | It should be stressed that large wooden articles such as doors are usually far better stripped by removing them and dipping in a caustic tank . |
| 20 | They left the Grand Canal behind them and glided through a labyrinth of quieter waterways . |
| 21 | ‘ Can I sit with you and sunbathe for a while ? |
| 22 | ‘ Leo ! ’ she yelled in exasperation , dashed after him and skidded to a halt as he stopped abruptly and turned . |
| 23 | If not , she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away . |
| 24 | Ken suddenly left him and went into a doorway of Hamleys , the big toy shop . |
| 25 | But Modigliani did not forget and in 1915 , when Indenbaum met him in Montparnasse , looking pale and unshaven , Modi came up to him and said in a hoarse voice , ‘ I 'm going to paint your portrait . ’ |
| 26 | I leaned over him and said in a different tone , " Do you know where Toby is ? " |
| 27 | Tavalouze sidled up behind him and said in a low voice , ‘ Remove your hood , the veil . |
| 28 | Werewolf softly whistled Mark Knopfler 's Going Home from Local Hero and did n't stop even when Jenkins walked up to him and said in a plummy voice : |
| 29 | I chose as my subject the person of the Buddha , tried to relate his teaching to Christians , expressed my deep admiration for him and pleaded for a more tolerant and positive attitude towards the religion which he had founded . |
| 30 | She turned her back to him and fiddled with a trolley , and bit her cheek till it bled . |