Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She took all the bones out of his spinal column and compressed them to nothing , she turned his eyeballs inward , she jellied his legs , she unplugged and rewired his guts .
2 Instead , I just lit up a straight fag and shared it with her , Bogart style .
3 Alexandra read the paragraphs through carefully several times , then cut them out and laid them in her desk with his two letters .
4 I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English .
5 Adam picked her up in his arms and laid her on her desk : reports slithered off it and the Cartier clock crashed to the floor .
6 I carried her in her crumpled dress up the short flight of stairs , and laid her on her bed .
7 Sharpe took the loaded pistol from his belt , cocked it , and laid it beside him .
8 She had rolled up her coat and laid it on her suitcase .
9 Scathach dragged the stiff body back into the trees and laid it on its side .
10 Overwhelmed with compassion , Melissa put out a hand and laid it on his arm .
11 Impulsively now , she put her hand out and laid it on his , saying quietly , ‘ I 'm going to miss you all over again , Ben , that 's if I take this place . ’
12 They called it All-Heal and laid it upon their altars as an emblem of the advent of the Messiah .
13 Jean-Claude fetched a mattress from the pavillon and laid it in his working space .
14 Then they brought food in and laid it inside her shelter .
15 He lifted his hand and laid it against her cheek , his fingers cool and firm against her skin .
16 He rang her just before lunch and recommended us for their pets .
17 Ellie provoked and stimulated Mr O'Mara with her inquisitive and questioning mind , and entertained him with her ever truthful and utterly pragmatic approach , while the kindness , respect and affection that he had accorded Ellie had enabled her to grow quickly and painlessly from a gauche teenager into a poised young woman .
18 Ellwood snatched up his wine glass and clapped it to his mouth , driving the rim past his teeth .
19 In his fury Pascoe might have grabbed the knife — which could have belonged to MacQuillan and been to hand — and plunged it into him .
20 In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table .
21 For it was the Spirit who called Philip from his successful mission in Samaria to reach the Ethiopian eunuch with the gospel ( 8:29 and probably 26 ) , and led him on his further preaching tour as far as the very Hellenised city of Caesarea .
22 Jenny put her arm protectively round Antony 's waist and led him after her father , the uniformed police still in close attendance .
23 Quigley , with a short , convulsive movement that was halfway between a bow and a twitch , took my hand and led me towards her .
24 Mobutu resisted pressure from Western governments to enter into a power-sharing arrangement with Tshisekedi and attacked them for their " flagrant interference " ; he understood , he said , " that Western aid is mixed with all sorts of threats and blackmail " .
25 The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched .
26 Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals .
27 A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments .
28 Eventually Ken was referred to a doctor who had an interest in dietary factors in disease , and asked him about his diet It emerged that Ken drank 20 cups of tea or coffee , both very strong , in the course of the average day .
29 I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album .
30 He then turned to the general strike and asked him about his role in it .
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