Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee . |
| 2 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 3 | He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president . |
| 4 | The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April . |
| 5 | So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders . |
| 6 | There was a noticeable hesitation before Tamar rose and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 7 | I rose and faced her across the table . |
| 8 | There was a bit of head-scratching as they pushed , squeezed and levered me into the passenger seat : ‘ The biggest bloke yet ’ . |
| 9 | You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe . |
| 10 | She stopped and halted him with a hand on his arm . |
| 11 | Ryan stopped and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 12 | She stopped and drew me behind a screen of goldenrod , tangled and wild like a neglected hedgerow . |
| 13 | His players respected and loved him as a result . |
| 14 | With all her strength , she forced herself to stand and threw herself around the corner . |
| 15 | A sudden flurry of shots rang out from the direction of the cainca , confirming the older man 's prediction , and without further argument the two boys turned and followed him into the jungle at a run . |
| 16 | This network of friendship and patronage became one of the less objectionable instruments of nineteenth-century electoral corruption and the instrument with which the small man met and defended himself against the state . |
| 17 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 18 | Easy-E says representatives of Sony intimidated and threatened him during a meeting in 1991 at the SOLAR Records office in Hollywood . |
| 19 | And on a Saturday with Jenny going in if there 's any overtime you and old what's-a-name was there and he came and tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 20 | She came and kissed him like an anteater , and he went out of the door . |
| 21 | Mrs Donnan came and took me by the hand . |
| 22 | He finished dressing , then came and held her by the shoulders , kissing her lightly on the mouth . |
| 23 | Roman took her arm in a grip she could n't break and marched her down the path . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She was too exhausted to resist and showed them into the living room . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But it was not until I was at Cambridge , in the following year , that my mother noticed and took me to the family doctor . |