Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was pleasant enough and told her all she needed to know . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | The force of the blow caught him squarely and sent him sprawling , gasping for breath , temporarily blinded , rolling in the dust . |
| 7 | I could never of got them and got her hair cut cos she did do it slowly and got it level |
| 8 | Miss Harker recoiled from the small spidery apparition , but recovered quickly and granted him one of her smiles . |
| 9 | She was teasing , but I answered , ‘ I 'd guess Mercer assured the waiter he would n't be fired and took him aside and gave him twenty dollars . ’ |
| 10 | Well he should of carried it home and carried it all the way back again |
| 11 | The lady at the dole office was nicely dressed in flowered cotton , she 'd seen Alex cry once and got her some tissues and everything was suddenly made easy . |
| 12 | The question for an Industrial Tribunal is not whether one of them was innocent but whether you carried out such reasonable investigation as you could and you reasonably believed it was either or both and dismissed them both because of that belief . |
| 13 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 14 | Twenty-one when she met Peter , she married him two years later and left him six years after that . |
| 15 | She felt that here at last was a man who saw things clearly and saw them whole . |
| 16 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
| 17 | When her husband began to sing a little , snapping his fingers in rhythm , she smiled and for a moment looked like a young girl again ; but the barman came immediately and reminded them that singing was not permitted . |
| 18 | She 's just been in here and told me that my Yorkshire pudding ! |
| 19 | He says er And he lifted me hand up , here and bound it tight and bandaged across it . |
| 20 | She went out then and left me alone . |
| 21 | Eadred coolly agreed , informed us that food would be sent across and bade us all a courteous good night . |
| 22 | I went across and threw it open , exasperated that my holy moment had been so brutally shattered . |
| 23 | Father Peter waved them back to their seats and went across and poured them generous stoups of ale from the jar just outside the small buttery door . |
| 24 | He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it . |
| 25 | Yeah we do a we went over there and loaded them all on and then got a puncture in the trailer , ! |
| 26 | We went round there and showed us all the way round |
| 27 | The pair ignored us completely and gave us superb views of yet another extremely rare endemic bird of the Seychelles . |
| 28 | He went to garage , took out axe , took out knife , went upstairs and killed them both . |
| 29 | And on the first day of his eight-day tour of the Greek Islands with wife Lady Mills , it ‘ went ’ again and left him unable to walk . |
| 30 | Then the wind rose , fanning the few sparks left alive in the brushwood ; the fire flared into life again and gave them light to see by , and they broke apart from their terrible embraces and sprang off to blade-length and lance-length . |