Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 2 | ‘ No , ’ Carrie promised and remembered she had once said ‘ Do n't laugh ’ to him . |
| 3 | The radio was on in the living-room , he entered and saw her lying on the floor , When he knelt down and touched her face it was warm , and she moved a little . |
| 4 | Wexford winced and hoped she had n't seen . |
| 5 | In pure reaction from terror he broke down and wept himself into a deep , swooning sleep as soon as he was alone with his blessed candle ; but when he awoke strangely refreshed and heartened he had his wits again , and could reason about his escape . |
| 6 | And when he sagged and said he 'd had enough of the place and it was not what he had thought it would be , she said life never was and that if he wanted to stay in Fleet Street he would be foolish to leave without a new job to go to . |
| 7 | Riven saw a Hearthware go down as one charged and sent him flying . |
| 8 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 9 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 10 | However , Lord Justice Watkins disagreed and said he saw no difficulty in imposing upon the assessment officer the duty to discover what intention lay behind the reduction of capital . |
| 11 | Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it . |
| 12 | Mandy brought out a make-up box , and while Charity squirmed and complained she dusted on eyeshadow and mascara and blusher and lipstick . |
| 13 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 14 | Mazzin came and told us to lie along the inside wall together . |
| 15 | and erm and that 's what erm , the teacher came and said she 'd fallen out of erm one of the , er I think she said bogeys or something ? |
| 16 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 17 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 18 | The cleverness was in using the wealth of old prints lying around ignored and simplifying them to make them fresher and give them a contemporary feel . |
| 19 | That had been rather exciting and they were prepared to recount it at considerable length until Narouz intervened and told them to shut up . |
| 20 | As he ate and drank she found herself chattering away to him out of nervousness , a stream of things that went through her head , the small happenings of a day . |
| 21 | In the seat in front two passengers recognized the farm where they lived and wanted me to see it too . |
| 22 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 23 | Was Cyril Burt as responsible for the development as he claimed or does it derive more from distinct European or American traditions ? |
| 24 | A WOMAN whose silicone breast implant ruptured and caused her to have a partial mastectomy was awarded £17 million by an American jury yesterday . |
| 25 | Examination had also revealed several hooded eyes in the head , torso and arms ; all connected by a massive circuitry of unexplainable nerves and sinew which , although with no brain to relay messages still saw them , still swivelled and watched them move about the room as they examined it . |
| 26 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 27 | There were many heads like that in Spain , and I would follow outstanding examples gazing in admiration at that nape , that neck , that flat-backed skull , until the head turned and let me glimpse the face , which was never disappointing . |
| 28 | She turned and saw him lying still , face down , as the horses careered away . |
| 29 | He turned and saw me smile . |
| 30 | She turned and saw he had stopped . |