Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He played with Louis Armstrong 's All Stars at the end of the 50s and led his own band at Eddie Condon 's in New York in the mid-60s .
2 He had forgotten this unofficial war and damned his own foolhardiness at not taking the matter into account .
3 He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour .
4 Then Greta Ross took my mother into a room and asked her more questions .
5 One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions .
6 She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity .
7 But some of the branches apparently just like pinned it up , been quite happy to pin up the returned fax and then each consultant just gone and read his own bit .
8 Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood .
9 Later that year the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Magazine quoted these results in full and announced its own competition :
10 He advertised his own brand of cigarettes and sold his own brand of whisky .
11 He had wrapped her in a blanket off her bed and made her more coffee .
12 Similar outspoken attacks on Tory rebels over charges for eye and dental checks once boosted a revolt — and made him more enemies .
13 She designed and made her own clothes , sometimes colouring the fabric with home-made dyes ; this gave the articles a most individual style and character .
14 She felt ashamed that she had left him and made her own escape .
15 She made her own chutney , and made her own pickles , even though she was at work .
16 In the end he got up and made himself some coffee , then watched the early morning skies above Manhattan as he recalled the past .
17 He crept back into the kitchen and made himself another cup of tea .
18 As Simon Halliday is a fine footballer and made his own contribution with a try you can say that it was almost a perfect backline .
19 Corbett closed his eyes and made his own prayer , sending it up into the void .
20 In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press .
21 A year before his father avowed his change in faith , Cecil had journeyed to Rome and made his own profession of Catholicism .
22 Much to my surprise she agreed , on condition that we had separate rooms and made our own travel arrangements .
23 I went to them all and watched and listened and made my own judgements .
24 And those of us who could drive , collected passengers and appointed our own bus conductors .
25 She ran like the wind back to the apartment and tumbled her few clothes into bags , then raced back through the back alleys to avoid the crowds and finally met Lucenzo pacing up and down by the column .
26 Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite took over responsibility for Planning from Brizan and passed his own Information portfolio to Carlyle Glean , the Minister of Education , Culture , Youth Affairs and Sport .
27 He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life .
28 Not to be outdone , Pentos also took the plunge and produced its own 48-page , fully illustrated catalogue for all its shops ( last year it took the PN catalogue .
29 In some places the Afro-Caribbean community has composed Mass settings and produced its own hymn books .
30 The lady at the dole office was nicely dressed in flowered cotton , she 'd seen Alex cry once and got her some tissues and everything was suddenly made easy .
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