Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems .
2 ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy …
3 The sergeant produced his warrant card and said he wanted to ask some questions .
4 Derek Malcolm , The Guardian 's film critic , agrees that there has been a gradual shift in perception and suggests it began as movie moguls realised women were no longer being ‘ taken ’ to the movies by their menfolk , hot on the trail of Rambo .
5 Erm and then what he did was , he they went through it together and he showed her what to do and she followed him and and as she did things right he praised her and gave her feedback and said she 'd done it correctly and then then when there were things did n't understand she questioned him and then he clarified her .
6 Gedge joked to music writers that he had accidentally played the original Orange Juice song at the wrong speed and thought it sounded great .
7 While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision .
8 It was Amanda who , beaming like a Cheshire cat , wiggled her fingers at Grunte in a familiar greeting and waved what looked like an autograph book in his direction .
9 Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child .
10 He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom .
11 All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health .
12 This love of secrecy may have been a reaction to the rapid expansion of Britain 's formal power towards the end of the nineteenth century , an attempt to preserve the spirit of the frontier and deny what had become the unexciting obviousness of British dominion .
13 ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption .
14 For example if you 've changed your mind and decide you did n't want the goods or if you had damaged the goods and the shop offer you a credit note , I think you really have to accept that with good grace , cos it is really your fault .
15 Corman called ‘ It 's a wrap ’ on Friday evening , and realized that he still had almost forty-eight hours ' usage left on the warehouse and sets he had rented for The Raven .
16 ‘ Put the Bronica in my rucsac and claimed it went down with you . '
17 Neck and spoke they raced for mile after mile , the horse only drawing breath to ensure Ian was there to open the gates along the way , and to use Ian as a guide when Sally got lost in the maze of the Clubhouse car park !
18 The poor dog seemed to know all about it , for in fear and trembling he waited behind his master , hanging his tail most ignobly .
19 When I did she cried with fear and said she did n't want to die .
20 Even in the midst of his fear and strain it occurred to him that Dandelion must be very fast : he had covered the distance in a flash .
21 It was an ancient emotion for Blanche , calling her home from the wasteland of tension and anger she had tramped across for the past few months .
22 Cranog Jones denies attempting to gas his ex-wife and claims she made the story up .
23 right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid
24 As an active Trotskyite he encouraged me to speak of the prejudice and abuse I 'd faced being the son of an Indian .
25 RISC watcher Andrew Allison remembered FRISC as a merchant chip attempt and says he laughed at Micron months ago when it announced the subsidiary because it did n't have the resources or market presence to pull off a new proprietary architecture .
26 With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up .
27 He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him .
28 The tank itself could split , spilling fuel over the boat and leaving none left to get home ! 3 .
29 On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles .
30 Other forces have dismissed the operation , part of a crackdown entitled Operation Blade , as a public relations exercise that was failing to tackle spiralling knife crime and said they had no plans to introduce similar schemes .
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