Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were working with the council at ten pence and hour so we thought we were going to improve on that a wee bit . |
| 2 | John did not have his brother Bobby 's ease on a platform but he had more integrity and honesty and he knew he had to do it . |
| 3 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 4 | ‘ I had on this little dress , smock it was , with this pretty embroidery all over the bodice , sort of Heidi , and Mum and I did my pigtails . ’ |
| 5 | But we , I know the chap he does n't watch telly that , he 's a lon lon long distance lorry driver and he had to have remote and text so he swapped it , you know , and er |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I was sitting in the TV station next to a large man with glasses and beard and I felt I knew him . |
| 7 | There were good things at school too , cooked dinners every day and milk if you took your own mug . |
| 8 | In those days Womblemania stalked these islands , and so a large audience had gathered to witness Uncle Bulgaria and Co as they strutted their stuff . |
| 9 | When it came to shopping , which is after all one of the main features of urban living , the average Parisian was a provincial who liked to choose his butcher and baker and who wanted them to be near at hand . |
| 10 | With a gasp she felt his palm close firmly round one of her breasts , circling and squeezing until she felt her nipples harden and an explosion of fire sweep through her entire body , sending her head back , lips opening , lids heavy and breath deepening uncontrollably as her arms came up around his neck . |
| 11 | Through the long ride , through the noise and confusion when they reached their destination , through the hurried ceremony that followed almost immediately , during which she moved and spoke when so directed like one in a trance . |
| 12 | Rune must have read her guilt and disappointment as she turned her head away from him . |
| 13 | Received by the king and queen as she made her entrance , she curtsied deeply , and waited with bated breath for what would happen next . |
| 14 | He heard the garden chair squeak and sigh as she heaved herself out of |
| 15 | He tried to ignore the murmured whispers and laughter as he made his way through the streets across London Bridge and back into Southwark . |
| 16 | It was just before the Battle of Alamein — Bletchley was providing Montgomery with vital intelligence — and , had I but known it , Leslie was , almost at that same moment , listening on the wireless to ‘ One Fine Day ’ , and suffering because he thought he would never see me again . |
| 17 | And er I erm I organised a lot of that sort of thing erm by er it was exact measurements and spindles and you know like Erm yes , I could n't remember a lot now but er a lot of people , if I might say so , used me you know , Michael , my knowledge and skill and I allowed them to and I 'm not complaining . |
| 18 | They had no short-term solution to the bomber and assassin and they knew it . |
| 19 | It always kindled a glow of security and peace when he called her that , however casually . |
| 20 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 21 | In order to be certain that the Blox would have peace , quiet and privacy when they needed it , we arranged with Sunsail to charter two bareboat Oceanis 320s , and to take them from Göcek , Sunsail 's base in Fethiye Bay , south and east towards the wild and lovely Kekova Roads . |
| 22 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
| 23 | He dreamed of it and of himself catching it ; imagining it lunging and threshing as he played it and tussled to land it . |
| 24 | She was n't aware of how her voice softened when she said the word ‘ Mother ’ , although she did know that the precepts of morality and etiquette that she remembered her mother spelling out to her were the ones she kept most assiduously . |
| 25 | On the perfectly flat sandy beach little green , red , blue boats , so pretty in shape and colour that they made one think of flowers … |
| 26 | And Laura — if she had been earth and water as she shaped her pots , she was now , like Cleopatra , all fire and air . |
| 27 | If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone . |
| 28 | He had the freedom of spirit to cut through convention and authority if he felt it to be an impediment to his calling . |
| 29 | He told his mother and father that he found their whole system of religion abhorrent . |
| 30 | He was sobbing and swearing as she raped his skull . |