Example sentences of "[vb past] and [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The VW , driven by Wing , overtook and he saw the defendant 's brother , a passenger in the car , gesticulating at him . |
| 2 | I did n't know what he was talking about but I dutifully obeyed and we trailed the shambling figure as he made his way drunkenly out through a postern gate and down the steep , narrow alleyways of Nottingham . |
| 3 | I always thought that you see when the , er Normans came and you had the |
| 4 | And of course , when Jesus came and he healed the people and he spoke words of , of deliverance to those who are demon oppressed and he spoke words of that brought help to those who are blind and so on , there is of course , er , to the natural mind , a very natural explanation , it can all be explained away because you can not do these things ! |
| 5 | She agreed and we started the Mulch Gallery together in 1960 in South Molton Street . |
| 6 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 7 | The next day the policeman went where Mr Banks lived and they rang the bell , hello , hello are you Mrs Banks ? |
| 8 | ‘ I went to the old house where she lived and I saw the paintings . |
| 9 | The point is that this is where Camus lived and I made the effort to find my way here . |
| 10 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 11 | So he went at me , but I ducked and he hit the shelf — he broke his thumb in two places ! |
| 12 | The evening was well advanced when the chancellor arrived and he found the queen-dowager lying on cushions on the rush-strewn floor . |
| 13 | She nodded and they left the house hand in hand and walked across the springy turf . |
| 14 | Zach nodded and she opened the door out on to the landing and closed it behind her . |
| 15 | Nadine nodded and he put the key away again . |
| 16 | Moments later it opened and he unfastened the chain securing the two doors together and eased one of them open wide enough for him to slip inside . |
| 17 | The door opened and I covered the terrible state of my face with hair . |
| 18 | Robert Hamer planned to follow Kind Hearts and Coronets with a sexually-charged film set in the West Indies , with Vivien Leigh in the key role , but this was cancelled two weeks before shooting began and he quit the studio in a huff . |
| 19 | ’ He grinned and I caught the mockery in his voice . |
| 20 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 21 | It was a relief when we felt ourselves fairly started and we enjoyed the beautiful sail down Loch Tarbert … |
| 22 | His grip slackened and she took the opportunity to tear away from him . |
| 23 | But the shell-less ones survived and they became the most sophisticated and intelligent of all the molluscs , the squids and octopus . |
| 24 | As we flew closer and lower they looked up and waved and I recognized the pathetic twisted wreckage of T for Tommy . |
| 25 | She 'd been trying to get rid of it and then suddenly it worked and she lost the baby . |
| 26 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 27 | A minute later the phone rang and he snatched the receiver up , almost smiling as he heard the unmistakable gravelly voice of his old adversary . |
| 28 | Groups or pairs of ladies , often sisters or cousins , ran hotels of the kind she required and they understood the necessity for quietness and a late-night pot of tea , for Egyptian cotton sheets and a hot water bottle and plenty of cushions , for sufficient pastries at the tea table and permission to have one 's own wireless set in the bedroom . |
| 29 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 30 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |