Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we have consciously searched for the poor in spirit , and found them in many different situations . |
| 2 | Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors , but oh dear ! |
| 3 | He could mend any broken toy , and make things too — I remember he made a great big rocking-horse for Hilary , and painted it in all sorts of marvellous colours . |
| 4 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 5 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 6 | In addition , the commission claimed that García removed US$50,000,000 from the BCCI accounts and dispersed it in several of his own private bank accounts . |
| 7 | The man in just the pullover put his hands on his hips and faced us in all his glory . |
| 8 | Then he smiled , and thanked her in that tearingly familiar voice , and suddenly she could hardly bear to think that she had lost him . |
| 9 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 10 | Cadfael stooped and took it in both hands , and lifted it , and it parted from its setting without trailing a blade of grass or a torn edge of moss . |
| 11 | He reached for the case and took it in both hands . |
| 12 | With a look that she did n't know what to make of at all , he walked across to the revolving stand that held coats much like the one he was wearing , removed the sign that said ‘ Guaranteed Waterproof ’ , and tore it in half . |
| 13 | When Mrs Thatcher first came into power , she got hold of the pound note , held it up and tore it in half and then tore it into a quarter , and she said this is what the pound 's worth under the Labour government . |
| 14 | Accordingly , Gould contested New Shoreham , a venal borough in Sussex , and won it in both of the 1701 elections . |
| 15 | And had it in any case anything to do with Francis Garland being shot through the head ? |
| 16 | She , no she , cos she 'd s what , he 'd done his business pel pissed off and left her in this house and she did n't even know . |
| 17 | Benin turned back to Vasili then gripped the cassette in both hands and snapped it in half , allowing the tape to spill out on to the road . |
| 18 | I 've spotted it in lots of people and suspected it in most others . |