Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That experience angered and frustrated me sufficiently to consider coming to this place to try to change the evil which the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was letting loose on decent families in decent communities . |
| 2 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 3 | I was painting away merrily in Cirencester and realised I really needed a sound academic education . |
| 4 | she has n't gone out and sold it though has she ? for one or two fairly decent names er |
| 5 | He 'd called her Rory earlier in the evening — when they 'd been dancing , when he 'd kissed her and made her completely forget she was in the middle of a crowd of people . |
| 6 | It could not be said that a peace had been finally made because old habits in Alexandra would not die a final death and made her still reserved , a little wary . |
| 7 | And made us tenderly lift their sprays , |
| 8 | Priestley supported them and made it well known , so much so that he was asked not to attend the dinner — just in case . |
| 9 | It smelt and made it hard to breath . |
| 10 | He let his hand wander a little , and got it petulantly pushed away as she heaved herself out of the clutches of the chesterfield 's upholstery , and sat up on the edge of it . |
| 11 | We did of course have problems : the concrete for the foundations arrived an hour early , and caught us frantically putting in the underslab insulation ; the existing house was about three inches out of square ; and the bricks we wanted were out of production . |
| 12 | Saddam Hussein on Jan. 13 rejected a message from President Hafez al-Assad of Syria , and invited him instead to change sides and " join the ranks of the believers " in the great battle with the infidels . |
| 13 | She waited until the pressure outside the suit was near zero , checked that the pressure inside was normal , and used her right claw with surprising delicacy to tap in the instruction to open the hatch . |
| 14 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 15 | John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons . |
| 16 | Ford set out to see this cynosure and found Her so wrapped and swaddled in lace robes and veiling that he could see no trace of figure or countenance . |
| 17 | I was lucky , bought the books , took the treasure home and found they only covered A to M. Nevertheless I found them interesting and still thought they were a bargain . |
| 18 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 19 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 20 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 21 | Dr Sasaki shouted the name of the chief surgeon and rushed around to the man 's office and found him terribly cut by glass . |
| 22 | Robyn summoned up every ounce of strength and hate and found she still did n't have enough to cope with Luke 's overwhelming anger and her migraine all at the same time . |
| 23 | He put his finger towards one of the clenched fists and found it tightly grasped . |
| 24 | But I have been to the cirque in early June and in October , and found it almost deserted , so it is not too hard to pick your moment . |
| 25 | Yet even when he was sequestered and suspended he still kept his privileges and immunities as an officer of Chancery . |
| 26 | The carrying system worked well for me and being broad-shouldered and thick-necked I particularly appreciated being able to properly and permanently adjust the width between the shoulder straps . |
| 27 | I went to the doctor on the Saturday and he said it was gastroenteritis and prescribed tablets for me for it and told me just to keep up my fluids so I did n't get dehydrated . |
| 28 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
| 29 | She sent me to fetch two cups , and told me then to go to my own tea . |
| 30 | Her lip trembled briefly as Tony hugged her and Maureen kissed her again before they left , but she quickly recovered and told them unsmilingly to give her love to her father and the family . |