Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe . |
2 | GAME show host Leslie Crowther is fully conscious again , five weeks after the car crash that put him in a coma . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln . |
5 | Kathleen turned and studied herself in the mirror . |
6 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
7 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
8 | ‘ Bullshit , ’ she remarked and punched him in the arm as he grinned . |
9 | A fine fool she 'd look if Silas returned and found her in a state of emotional upset . |
10 | Then , after the old guy has examined , weighed and wrapped it in a turquoise napkin , we get our gold , in little ingots the size of collar studs . |
11 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
12 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
13 | I struggled and punched him in the stomach . |
14 | When he was a couple of streets away from the pensione Aldo tore up the letter into pieces as small as he could manage and dropped them in the gutter . |
15 | Her concern that the sisters living a life of contemplative discipline should in one respect be totally unrestricted — in their access to , and possession of , books — and the fact that , evidently , the brothers of the order both encouraged and instructed them in the knowledge of theological traditions , illuminates , and is symptomatic of , the problems faced by women who wished to live out their faith and give an articulate account of their experience . |
16 | Finally , reluctantly , she emerged and wrapped herself in a towel , then found another for her hair , winding it turban-style . |
17 | Some of their stores were swept away , some of their mounts and pack-horses were bogged , or foundered and damaged themselves in the stones of the river beds . |
18 | ‘ One man wrote or told it in a book ( the Bible ) , another in a picture . ’ |
19 | Sometimes he immediately pounced upon whatever I said and showed me in a psychoanalytical way how wrong I was , and how right he was . |
20 | Bees hummed steadily through the yellow bird 's foot trefoil that wove itself in a tangled carpet over the sand . |
21 | I taught her a new move and she practised it on me but she missed and got me in the and I fell on the ground . |
22 | At home she unloaded and stacked them in the basement . |
23 | Yeoman described and illustrated it in an article in the Gentleman 's Magazine in March 1748 , and is known to have erected one at Northampton . |
24 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |