Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [vb past] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When PC Stennett was sent to investigate he searched Hagans , but he found nothing and left him in the car park . |
| 2 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 3 | Pylons strode down from it , past a settlement and a water-tower on the plain due south of me and lost themselves in the haze to the west . |
| 4 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 5 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 6 | When they reached the kitchen Lucy collected the cups and saucers while Jean rinsed the crumbs off them and stacked them in the dishwasher . |
| 7 | I composed a note for them and left it in the hall beside the phone . |
| 8 | She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything — her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead . |
| 9 | To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous . |
| 10 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 11 | Of course , at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way . |
| 12 | She wriggled away from him and stared him in the face . |
| 13 | If he had come begging and pleading , I would have laughed at him and kicked him in the teeth . |
| 14 | It nauseated him and wakened him in the night with a palpitating heart . |
| 15 | Surely the lightning stroke of heaven should have fallen upon him and destroyed him in the very deed . ’ |
| 16 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |
| 17 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 18 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 19 | Reaching out , he took two of the scented sticks from the porcelain jar in front of him and held them in the thread of laser light until they lit . |
| 20 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 21 | But how naughty of you to pluck her and set her in a vase that only you see ! |
| 22 | DETECTIVES are hunting two youths who kidnapped a woman driver , sexually assaulted her and abandoned her in a burning car . |
| 23 | Cecil Jackson has been jailed for life for the murder of his wife : he strangled her and dumped her in a bath of acid . |
| 24 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 25 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 26 | Pinched some of my old Dad 's plum brandy and soaked raisins in it and left 'em in the clearing . |
| 27 | she 's walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground ! |
| 28 | She folded it and stood it in the comer behind the music centre . |