Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had left me and broken into a trot towards his block . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | True , it had taken her several minutes to decide whether the keys should be bunched or splayed but she had ceased fidgeting with them and settled into an abnormal quietude . |
| 4 | She turned her back to him and fiddled with a trolley , and bit her cheek till it bled . |
| 5 | Maxim stopped trying to peer at the shadowed faces in front of him and put on a pair of sunglasses . |
| 6 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he said , watching her and flooded by a feeling that he had not expected . |
| 7 | His black eyes were sharp as he looked at her and thought for a moment . |
| 8 | The Swiss pair sped down over the Third Ice Field , zoomed out from the sheer rockface beneath it and landed with a crunch on the Second Ice Field ; then , as limbs were torn from their bodies , they launched again off the cliff , landed on the First Ice Field , and again careened down the slope and zoomed out and down . |
| 9 | Henrietta 's brow was high , and her hair was scraped back from it and secured by an intricate velvet ribbon in a smooth , elaborate chignon : a Bambi head , a skull head , a too , too thin head , an over-bred head , a painful head . |
| 10 | The hospitality high in the alps is legendary , as is the food — all fresh , lots of it and served with a smile and great wine . |
| 11 | Rune is lifted carefully from it and placed upon a mound of plumped cushions . |
| 12 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
| 13 | Notes of questions arising out of the application form should be attached to it and used as a memory aid during the interview . |
| 14 | Parker licked at it and stuck on a bit of brown paper . |
| 15 | Or he could at least have appeared to accept it and put on a show : he was already capable enough of that . |
| 16 | * Instead of rinsing your pasta after cooking , drain it and put in a serving dish or back in the saucepan , then add a few knobs of soft butter . |
| 17 | Bernard excised it and put in a piece of nylon . ’ |
| 18 | If we are to succeed as teachers ( or parents ) we must accept that children may well be brighter than us and blessed with a potential far beyond our own . |