Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 2 | You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe . |
| 3 | She stopped and halted him with a hand on his arm . |
| 4 | She stopped and drew me behind a screen of goldenrod , tangled and wild like a neglected hedgerow . |
| 5 | His players respected and loved him as a result . |
| 6 | You could listen almost any time , anywhere — especially with your Walkman headset that filtered nothing but a mildly irritating hiss to passengers in your bus , say , or your train compartment . |
| 7 | GAME show host Leslie Crowther is fully conscious again , five weeks after the car crash that put him in a coma . |
| 8 | Easy-E says representatives of Sony intimidated and threatened him during a meeting in 1991 at the SOLAR Records office in Hollywood . |
| 9 | She came and kissed him like an anteater , and he went out of the door . |
| 10 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 11 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 12 | The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time . |
| 13 | There the bailiffs pushed and shoved me through a porticoed entrance , down a long , dark , musty passageway into the main well of the court , fastening me to the bar ; beyond it sat the three magistrates before a square table ringed by clerks . |
| 14 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 15 | He winked and waved her to a chair , then turned his attention back to the caller . |
| 16 | Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln . |
| 17 | He both expected and accepted it as a matter of course . |
| 18 | But she over-reacted and dragged him to a south London police station . |
| 19 | He was another senior photographer for Surfing and reminded me of a more weatherbeaten Errol Flynn . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll meet again , ’ she called after him , but he dragged his mount 's head around without replying and kicked it into a gallop back to the Rorim . |
| 21 | The old cow turned and licked her with a huge , wet tongue until her blouse was damp all over the right shoulder , but it was not comforting . |
| 22 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 23 | Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too . |
| 24 | She dressed in black trousers and a white blouse with long full sleeves , brushed her hair till it shone and twisted it into a tight knot on top of her head , thinking with satisfaction that Roman would n't like it but she was n't about to let him dictate how she wore her hair , or dressed . |
| 25 | They nodded and invited him to a meeting . |
| 26 | But Evans merely grinned and helped himself to a stool from under a neighbouring table . |
| 27 | A fine fool she 'd look if Silas returned and found her in a state of emotional upset . |
| 28 | Police said : ‘ He lied and took us on a wild goose chase . |
| 29 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 30 | Willoughby de Broke saw something of himself in his grandmother , ‘ a good whip and a good horsewoman ’ , who taught him to ride and launched him on an obsessively pursued career in hunting . |