Example sentences of "and [vb past] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stepped inside and got behind her and tried pushing her from that side . |
| 2 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 3 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 4 | ‘ We love sunflower seeds ! ’ they all cried , and began stuffing themselves with big black seeds . |
| 5 | Fifteen years ago the Victoria and Albert Museum reclassified many of its nineteenth-century study photographs as art photographs and started treating them with much more respect . |