Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his lips came back to hers , Jenna was soft and pliant , no resistance in her at all , and he rolled on to his back , pulling her over him fiercely and cupped her hot face in strong fingers . |
| 2 | He was pleasant enough and told her all she needed to know . |
| 3 | Do n't I get old enough and did me best perhaps he might change his mind |
| 4 | She touched his arm gently and met his puzzled eyes . |
| 5 | Half way down he heard a commotion below and quickened his heavy step in time to see , as he turned the last bend in the staircase , a slight figure slip out through the iron gate at the main entrance . |
| 6 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 7 | While these southern Americans believed their region unified by its homogeneity , what actually drew it together and made it conscious to itself was its deep and ( according to white Southern belief ) ineradicable , division — into white and black . |
| 8 | They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution . |
| 9 | He and Crawford got together and organized their own stage act , which included a few of their own songs . |
| 10 | Almost immediately she pulled herself together and swept her long hair from her face with both hands . |
| 11 | Relief came when it flew away and left our little group in the quiet on the top of the mountain range . |
| 12 | Britta turned away and continued her slow progress across the chamber , murmuring encouragement to the bowed figure in her embrace . |
| 13 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 14 | She pulled away and gave herself some time rolling and lighting a cigarette . |
| 15 | A representative sample of the adult British population was asked : ‘ If the company you work for had to move its premises , do you think you would or would not move with it and find a new home if it moved more than 50 miles away and gave you financial help to move ? ’ |
| 16 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 17 | He may have then reeled backwards and put his bloody hands on the wall to support himself before carrying on with his killing spree . |
| 18 | The force of the blow caught him squarely and sent him sprawling , gasping for breath , temporarily blinded , rolling in the dust . |
| 19 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 20 | Jonathan looked on appreciatively and filled his own glass with orange juice . |
| 21 | She surrendered Victoria gladly and flexed her strained arms . |
| 22 | I could never of got them and got her hair cut cos she did do it slowly and got it level |
| 23 | They went off right and did something horrific , while the grunts below confirmed McFall was finding the start no easier . |
| 24 | Magic had descended from somewhere and made her invisible ; and in the process it had … well , it felt as if it had killed her . |
| 25 | He took her hand , bowed formally and kissed his own thumb . |
| 26 | Miss Harker recoiled from the small spidery apparition , but recovered quickly and granted him one of her smiles . |
| 27 | WATERLOO BOY gained sweet revenge over Katabatic in Exeter 's feature race yesterday and left his old foe 's big race plans in tatters . |
| 28 | SAM Torrance sank a 30-foot birdie putt to win a four-way play-off at the Honda Open in Hamburg yesterday and grabbed his fourth tournament victory in 12 weeks . |
| 29 | Urquhart inhaled deeply and flexed his firm jaw . |
| 30 | He read deeply and liked his own company . |