Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Galileo had already opened the door to natural philosophy , and Hobbes supposed he was following Gilbert , Kepler , Gassendi , Harvey , and Mersenne , through it .
2 We made the camp and Melanie shot me a smile as she jumped out .
3 He had a winging moustache and a goatee beard but he moved tentatively , uncertainly , and Melanie guessed it was Finn who worked him .
4 But as they walked towards the car park , buttoning up their coats against the frost , footsteps came up quickly behind and Pascoe joined them .
5 At a speed that neither could match Louisa and Horrocks saw him hasten back down the lake .
6 Without saying anything further , Millie turned and went back into the house ; and Ben followed her , there to see Aggie shambling into the room , and although her eyes looked full of sleep , their powers of discernment were indeed wide awake .
7 He was based in London and Ben felt he would be sympathetic to the subject .
8 Karen thought of Tony , and Jessica knew it from her face .
9 It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged .
10 Waterman hit back saying both Kylie and Jason knew they were successful actors before their pop success and were aware of the dangers .
11 That being the case , Ann and I quickly arranged to visit our son , to see his new home — and have a few casts ; and Blair took me to where he had landed his sea-trout , in the sea-pool between Clett headland and Rubha Glas , over the golden sands at Geireann .
12 And Arabella knew she was pregnant — she would have wanted to take care .
13 My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable .
14 His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks .
15 Grace put oil in the big lantern in the middle of the room , and William lit it .
16 You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’
17 It found support in the professional and middle classes , and Treitschke gave it intellectual respectability .
18 And Colin had his done about the same time .
19 It was a statement of fact rather than the opening shot in an argument and Trent accepted it as such .
20 The mestizo lost his footing , and Trent heard him slide , swearing .
21 She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion .
22 And Zoya said she had got hold of the toilet rolls , and would bring them for Anna .
23 Catlin 's display was the base for County 's first League win of the season and Warnock admitted he took a risk when dropping experienced keeper Steve Cherry , Meadow Lane 's player of the year .
24 They were gradually weaned off the drugs and Valnet treated them with internal doses of essential oils instead .
25 And then Fael-Inis stood up , and the Lad stopped and looked around , and his eyes fell on Fael-Inis , and Taliesin thought he had never seen such fear and such undiluted hatred in any living creature 's eyes .
26 Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs .
27 They were helpless , and Medoc had them at his mercy .
28 Jeremy Guscott snatched his 15th try in 24 internationals , Dewi Morris pounced behind the Springbok scrum for his fifth in 11 when Garth Wright 's put-in squirted out too quickly and Carling wrapped it up when two Springboks panicked under an Andrew bomb , allowing him to fall on the ball .
29 Published by the research arm of the Department of Transport , the report comes shortly after the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham announced it would be introducing the scheme later this month .
30 But Shuckburgh 's long exposure to the whims and sensibilities of Eden and Churchill led him on at least one occasion to comment favourably on Eisenhower and Dulles as political leaders .
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