Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose and led them both down the stone steps , coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door . |
| 2 | I joked and teased them all until some of the heaviness lifted . |
| 3 | And what is it , they took no note and the flood came and swept them all away . |
| 4 | ‘ I was really upset but she came and found me later , ’ said Tessa . |
| 5 | So victims feel isolated and ignored and find it difficult to talk about their experiences . |
| 6 | There were tears in her eyes and when they went through to the kitchen she hugged and kissed them both . |
| 7 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
| 8 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 9 | We went out with them to Yours and Mine and The Sombrero , and we danced and found them all very crazy . |
| 10 | I turned and looked him full in the face . |
| 11 | Benjamin turned and nudged me alert . |
| 12 | Alain Lemarchand turned and regarded them both with ironic amusement . |
| 13 | But what alarmed and frightened her most and had her leaping for her pen was this talk of ‘ us ’ , of Oreste and Ellen being a pair who were ‘ happy together ’ and would never come to Italy . |
| 14 | He surprised and alarmed us all by saying that , following the liberalisation of exit controls , he expected that up to 7 million Soviet citizens would want to work in the west . |
| 15 | After half an hour the bus started and moved us seventy metres , to the nearest plane , the one we could have walked to , with less effort and staying warmer . |
| 16 | At her inquest this afternoon he said he 'd visited the streets where she worked and found it dangerous even in daylight . |
| 17 | He sounded almost admiring , but then went and spoilt it all by adding , ‘ Although I suppose if you 've gone through life getting yourself into situations like this you would be bound to develop a fairly strong streak of subbornness by now . ’ |
| 18 | Until some bloody Fauve went and painted me mauve |
| 19 | but with four minutes to go United went and blew it all … the defence tied themselves in knots and Paul Trollope banged in an equaliser … 1-1 hard luck Hereford |
| 20 | She just went and gave me that . |
| 21 | And then I went and showed her all forms , all these form things that they 've got I were letting her read it . |
| 22 | Er that can be bad because if , if only from the point of view that when you get back you 've got nothing to talk about because they were there and saw and did it all you see . |
| 23 | ‘ That was a hard woman who laughed and left me stranded . ’ |
| 24 | He sat up , looking at her , astonished by her behaviour , then laughed and pulled her close again , kissing her . |
| 25 | He laughed and pulled her close to him . |
| 26 | Grandma laughed and called it all a waste |
| 27 | Perversely , in the way of Customs Officers , we insisted but gave him ten minutes to clear up , then climbed on board to see to the necessary documentation . |
| 28 | The turrets and gables of Templecombe were almost in sight beyond the trees when my horse whinnied and shook me awake . |
| 29 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 30 | Robyn swallowed and glanced out at the pouring rain , glanced at him , at the carved , arrogant profile that irked and thrilled her all at the same time and then at the rain again . |