Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 2 | Their presence is still obvious around the city , in statues and monuments , in buildings used by them and restored for other purposes now , and at the church they attended , St Paul 's in the Jewellery Quarter . |
| 3 | And how Gazzer had interrupted them and talked about these old World War II pill-boxes as good hidingplaces … . |
| 4 | However a lap later McCall had passed him and led by 20 seconds and he stretched his lead all the way to the finish . |
| 5 | The second and third points were taken up by him and expressed in different ways in his pronouncements on political and economic issues . |
| 6 | The contrast between the two men of near-identical appearance is shown in a less formal , more novelistic manner in the character of the King , depicted in The Prisoner of Zenda as a weak , pleasure-loving young man trying to equip himself for his destiny and in Rupert of Hentzau as a man ill in body , weaned by matters of state , gradually coming to resent his obligations to the man whose courage and energy have twice saved his position for him and burdened by jealous suspicions of his wife 's fidelity . |
| 7 | He was at this time an exponent of the benefits of Anglo-French peace and in the Philobiblon , attributed to him and written in 1344–5 , one chapter was entitled ‘ the Complaint of Books against Wars ’ . |
| 8 | She saw him and launched into this song , directing it straight at him . |
| 9 | At the Easter vestry in 1818 Merceron was voted out , and shortly afterwards he was convicted of the charges against him and imprisoned for eighteen months . |
| 10 | She made a fuss of every boat that approached her and mixed with all bathers on the beach , allowing them to pet her , hold her tail , and ride on her back . |
| 11 | She began to feel a little differently , though when less than an hour later they entered Ven 's hotel suite and as she turned , about to give him her polite but none the less sincere thanks as they halted in the middle of the room , Ven looked down at her and got in first with , ‘ Are you tired ? ’ |
| 12 | The ward clerk glanced at her and stuck in another report . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the book which he based upon it and published in 1893 under the title De la Division du travail social : étude sur l'organisation des sociétes supérieures is without question one of the most influential and stimulating in the whole field of the social sciences . |
| 14 | Mrs Moore sat with Lily 's pale hand in hers and talked with desperate gaiety about the coming of spring . |
| 15 | ‘ Orders can be either phoned or faxed in to us and delivered within 24 hours , ’ Trevor Thompson emphasised . |