Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [pron] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean Pert was sent this poem by a partner in her Prayer Chain and asked to share it with us . |
| 2 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 3 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 4 | She knows people and tried to dazzle me with names . |
| 5 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 6 | He knew Blanche was nervous by her uncharacteristic air of distraction and tried to calm her with compliments about her appearance . |
| 7 | Three masked men broke into her bungalow , and threatened to beat her with a club . |
| 8 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 9 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 10 | Daphne took the tube , squeezed a white worm of cream on to Rose 's shoulders and began spreading it with her large , plump hands . |
| 11 | He took off his spectacles and began to clean them with his handkerchief . |
| 12 | ‘ We love sunflower seeds ! ’ they all cried , and began stuffing themselves with big black seeds . |
| 13 | Bryony took the toast out and began to smear it with tomato chutney . |
| 14 | He emerged then and she dropped her hand self-consciously , straightened her dress and tried to rearrange her expression into one of indifferent professionalism as an attractive blonde girl draped herself decorously around his neck and began to kiss him with quite unnecessary passion . |
| 15 | He ignored the partially melted ice , and began to shaft her with unbounded enthusiasm . |
| 16 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 17 | Then , abruptly , without a word , he turned away , picked up a piece of copy , and began to correct it with short , violent strokes and swirls of his pen . |
| 18 | 12.40 : Saw Deputy Head re incident and arranged to see him with Class Teacher in his office when I have completed my dinner duty . |
| 19 | Jenny had a very poor topographical imagination and needed to apply herself with great concentration to the task of relating the main lines of street lights to her own knowledge of the town . |
| 20 | Tiepolo no less , before the artist had commanded the fortune of the present day , but still a great deal of money , even twenty years ago , when Brückner renovated the old mansion and started filling it with treasures . |
| 21 | With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword . |
| 22 | Fifteen years ago the Victoria and Albert Museum reclassified many of its nineteenth-century study photographs as art photographs and started treating them with much more respect . |
| 23 | There were no vegetables — the Yek grew only a limited number — and he selected an apple from a pile in a bowl and started to peel it with his d'jaga . |
| 24 | After examining it , they considered it would make a good tool-box and decided to take it with them . |
| 25 | We considered what we could do to help and decided to link it with our interest in running . ’ |
| 26 | NASA saw the emptiness above the ground and decided to fill it with sky . |
| 27 | The local authority was considering that request when it had to move the children and decided to place them with foster parents . |
| 28 | Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do . |
| 29 | Anyway treating it with the respect that any fish of unknown toothy potential deserves I knelt across it like a pike and proceeded to unhook it with Rick 's help . |
| 30 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |