Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He begged the court not to disclose his home address , lest his ex-wife discovered it and harass him . |
| 32 | Bernice grabbed it and shoved it through the dispensing slot . |
| 33 | The woman escaped and ran to a motorist after her assailant grabbed her and dragged her into private gardens . |
| 34 | As he felt his own orgasm beginning to pulsate be felt her legs gripping him and drove his penis into her as hard as he could , bursting inside her like a dam . |
| 35 | He smiled foolishly as Josh undressed him and put him to bed ; he was feeling blissfully contented , but he could n't focus on anything very clearly . |
| 36 | Well , er I asked this , because erm , when I was having my house it came up , and I and I pointed out to her th the astonishing anomaly , I said , look erm , everybody knows about manuscript , Ernest and his biography of Freud mentions it and says he read it and reports rather well of it , actually , was really quite impressed with it . |
| 37 | It was as though Dexter had met Marek somewhere before : an invisible thread of emotion bound them and excluded her . |
| 38 | George Burt acquired it and removed it to Swanage . |
| 39 | Later Julian and David took them and stood them along the ground near the climbing frame . |
| 40 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 41 | I just sat there staring at the bag as it unscrewed itself and the wind took it and blew it up into the air and away . |
| 42 | Schumpeter advocates it and describes it as being ‘ that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote . ’ |
| 43 | Cut-out invitations If your party has a theme , design a card to represent it and get your child to colour it in and cut it out . |
| 44 | Here you had the governor of a state in a federal system choosing to act in a particular way and the president overriding him and demonstrating his power . |
| 45 | " Take a quart of green gooseberries boil them and pulp them thro " a sieve , take the whites of 3 eggs , beat them to a Froth , put it to the Gooseberries and beat it both together till it looks white , then take ½ pound refin 'd sugar , make it into a Syrrup with Spring Water , boyl it to a Candy , [ i.e. to the small thread ] let it be almost cold then put it to the Gooseberries and Eggs and beat all together till t is all froth , which put into Cups or Glasses — Codlings [ green apples ] may be done the same way . |
| 46 | Napoleon despised him and exploited him because he guessed his motives and could not take seriously his defence of Spanish independence . |
| 47 | SAMANTHA FOX : For trying to make out that there 's no harm in Page Three and going on to her pre-destined role as a bimbo rock chick exhorting her listeners to touch her and feel her body , helping another generation of idiot males think that women are there purely for their own gratification . |
| 48 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 49 | The selection board interviewed him and rejected his application without further ado . |
| 50 | The opportunity to serve you and to meet you over the next twelve months I look forward to enormously and while I 'm not conceited enough to think that I can move mountains in the year ahead , or naive enough to think that I can please everybody fully , fellow Tablers I promise you I will not let you down . |
| 51 | Davidson told him and furnished him with the office copy . |
| 52 | Reading , as it were , puts food whole into the mouth , meditation chews it and breaks it up , prayer extracts its flavor , contemplation is the sweetness itself which gladdens and refreshes . " |
| 53 | The small group of riders spied them and altered their course to meet the patrol . |
| 54 | She had n't realised how tense she was until she heard that he was all right , but now she crumpled like a wet paper bag , laughing and crying and laughing again all at once , while Mick hugged her and passed her tissues . |
| 55 | Mr Vinct brought in some of the ‘ Daily Service ’ folk to see me and to tell me about their work . |
| 56 | He was right , of course , she knew that , but she picked up the brandy Mick got her and downed it in one , then hovered on the edge of her seat until he gave up and walked her home . |
| 57 | Grant McDougall , of Christie 's , said : ‘ Ray approached us and asked us to value the items . |
| 58 | Ronni caught it and threw it back at him , impatient of his criticism . |
| 59 | Making the best of the situation , Arden-Clarke invited Nkrumah to meet him and submit his list of names for the majority of the Executive Council who would now become Ministers . |
| 60 | He hopped close to my feet and waited till I presented him with a bun all to himself , and he had hard work nibbling it and taking it along with him to his home . |