Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge gave Vernage five life sentences and recommended that he serve at least 25 years . |
| 2 | The executives agreed and asked that I act as the facilitator . |
| 3 | The kangaroo court decided the punishment must fit the crime and ruled that he stay in his cell during the jailhouse comedy . |
| 4 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 5 | Daemons howled and gibbered as they surged through the carnage . |
| 6 | They all laughed and joked until they got to Holborn . |
| 7 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 8 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 9 | She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ‘ Madame Eloise — Hair ’ on it . |
| 10 | She giggled and pouted as he chatted to her . |
| 11 | ‘ It will be said and believed that you lay in wait for Aldhelm and killed him , so that he could never point the finger at you . ’ |
| 12 | The needle immediately showed a reading , which then strengthened and weakened as he moved about the warehouse . |
| 13 | Outwardly he was calm and composed as he walked in the warm evening sunshine towards the House , but like the swans gliding serenely across the water , he too was paddling like hell underneath . |
| 14 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 15 | Accordingly , Leonard investigated the connections of the dorsomedial thalamus in rats and showed that it projects to two cortical areas , one lying on the medial edge of the anterior cortex and the other on the lateral edge , in the rhinal fissure . |
| 16 | Lowell 's conscience ebbed and flowed when he thought of Ballater and the old man 's anxiety . |
| 17 | She took the photograph back and sighed as she stared at it . |
| 18 | The Headmaster expressed his concurrence with the suggestion as the Technical School could supply subjects of instruction not dealt with at a Grammar School , and stated that he had under consideration a scheme as to classes and fees having this object in view . " |
| 19 | After the election the new government in November 1990 again expressed its support for the ban and confirmed that it remained in place . |
| 20 | After a week , Val came back , tearful and shaky , and declared that she meant at least to earn her living , and would take a course in shorthand-typing . |
| 21 | It is , therefore , a phase of male sexuality which is purportedly being portrayed with the result that female readers are frequently belittled and diminished as they read about girls who are at one and the same time both the object of male disgust and the arousers of male sexual interest . |
| 22 | A number of writers have concentrated upon the psychological make-up of individuals and indicated that we need to be aware of the individual 's nature . |
| 23 | The thing which had seemed so hard was simple now , the gulf that had appeared unbridgable shrank to a child 's leap , and vanished as he stepped over it . |
| 24 | Some adults make the choice to live on their own after they have tried various shared living arrangements and discovered that they prefer to be in control of their own life and make their own rules . |
| 25 | Controllers regained contact with the satellite after three anxious hours , and discovered that it appeared to be in full working order . |
| 26 | Fabia smiled , and discovered as she stood under the shower , that she was cheerfully humming a snatch of one of Dvořák 's Humoresques . |
| 27 | The Soviet dictator , Stalin , had n't wanted to fight the Nazis , and panicked when they invaded in 1941 . |
| 28 | Once he put an incredibly hard , cold lump of what was obviously meat in my bowl and then stood there and watched while I sniffed at it . |
| 29 | Too taken aback to know what else to do , Folly stood aside and watched as he carried in four more boxes . |
| 30 | With a foolish sense of loss she stood and watched as he hurried down the path towards the waiting Bentley . |