Example sentences of "[pron] and [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I had no one to love me and nothing to look forward to . |
| 2 | He looked up at me and I stared hard at him . |
| 3 | I trip on something in the ferns , twisting in mid-air as my ankle gives underneath me and I slam backwards into the ground , winding myself . |
| 4 | Waves of sleep then started to wash over me and I dozed fitfully until dawn . |
| 5 | I rang the number she 'd given me and she answered almost at once — whether she was up and reading , or whether the phone was beside her bed I did n't know . |
| 6 | The undertaker selected four of them and they bent willingly to the coffin , easier in their minds about the embarrassments of grief , because now they had something they could do . |
| 7 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 8 | So she and I ran away from him several times . |
| 9 | Ian , thanks ever so much , it 's not necessarily been an easy ride for you , but we 're glad to know you and we look forward to meeting you again . |
| 10 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 11 | You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate . |
| 12 | Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires … |
| 13 | thank you and it said there in apportionment , page one , five , three again , calculated from the date of legal completion to the end of the then current half year , will be collected on completion , please note that these are estimated only and will be retrospectively adjusted when audited accounts are available now we 've seen the reflection of that in practice this morning have n't we ? |
| 14 | In public , three times a week , he held a solemn consistory — which had previously fallen into disuse — in which he deputed the examination of lesser cases to others , while the major ones he dealt with himself so subtly and wisely that all wondered at his precision and skill and many educated and legally-learned men came to the Roman Church to hear him and they learnt more in his consistories than they had learnt in the schools , especially when they heard him give sentence . |
| 15 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 16 | She was breathlessly aware of him and she walked across to the fence that faced the field she could see from her room and stood there looking out into the distance . |
| 17 | I got a drink for him and he grinned gratefully at me . |
| 18 | Corbett knew he had to leave but the room was spinning around him and he fell gratefully into the gathering blackness . |
| 19 | He did not know what had possessed him the night before , yet , gradually , the sweetness she gave him began to dissolve his confusion ; his vivid spurt of pleasure returned to him and he looked across at her and asked , ‘ Will you be coming to the passeggiata next Saturday ? ’ |
| 20 | The Cobra nipped him and he died shortly after . |
| 21 | Then Doyle pushed him and he stepped meekly into the room , noticing the heavy key in the front door and the two large bolts that were firmly shot at the top and bottom . |
| 22 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 23 | ‘ They go to put the needle in him and he leaps forward at him . |
| 24 | Yes , her and I went together for seventeen year , before us got married . ’ |
| 25 | His eyes flickered past her and he smiled faintly before turning back to her and loudly questioning the validity of the original invoice . |
| 26 | His hand toyed mercilessly with her breasts , as if he had the right ; perhaps she had given him the right ; as if he owned her and she existed solely for his capricious use . |
| 27 | His arms came around her and she pressed willingly into them , lifting her chin and stretching up on her toes so that he did not have to bend so far towards her . |
| 28 | He reached for her and she stepped nimbly behind a chair . |
| 29 | The violence left her and she lay peacefully in his arms . |
| 30 | Michael held out his arms to her and she shrank away from him , clinging to Roy . |