Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him . |
| 2 | The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died . |
| 3 | The absurd image touched her and made her feel somehow protected and safe : this kind , bumbling man would never despise her . |
| 4 | and she 'll go and get the milk out and say I 've just got myself a glass of milk mum , oh right , okay not even aware that she 's gone out to the fridge you know , fair enough we say ah , you do n't do you ? |
| 5 | However , when he neared the blank concrete wall , he saw an opening to his right and found he had merely reached a ninety degree turn , round which the tunnel still stretched as far as his torch beam could reach . |
| 6 | In 1961 Treloar 's father bought neighbouring land , and believed he had also bought this waste land . |
| 7 | He welcomed the Truman Doctrine and claimed he had frequently predicted the development to Hodge : |
| 8 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 9 | I wondered why Nour had killed her and decided she had probably laughed at him . |
| 10 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 11 | Then it was like an out-of-control lorry coming straight at you and knowing you 've only got seconds to make your peace . |
| 12 | I caught an early edition , read about the ruckus , and thought I 'd better come home and see what was happening about the five grand . ’ |
| 13 | And to think she had always poured scorn on her older sisters when they had put on such fluttering airs in front of a man . |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ Carrie promised and remembered she had once said ‘ Do n't laugh ’ to him . |
| 15 | Then a few days later , the other girl , Sally , came dancing across the playground and said she 'd just got hers back . |
| 16 | He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man . |
| 17 | Mr Hurd still hoped the UN High Commissioner for Refugees would agree to help the Hanoi embassy in monitoring conditions for returnees , and said he had already asked British non-governmental organisations for co-operation . |
| 18 | Some years ago a presenter at a seminar on project management referred to the Taylor Woodrow logo and said he had often wondered who was on the other end of the rope . |
| 19 | He uses around 100 cubic metres per year and estimates he has only saved about £10 each year because his house has a relatively low rateable value . |
| 20 | I remembered the palms with clustered dates hanging like udders high in the air , and wished she had never mentioned the subject of cows . |
| 21 | You wo n't want to extricate yourself from a personal promise or commitment , but you will begin to feel tied down and wish you 'd never got involved in the first place . |
| 22 | And for some veteran or novice rower , they 'll be able to go home and say they 've just rowed with an Olympic gold medallist . |
| 23 | Endill expected to bump into him again soon , but after several weeks had seen nothing of him and concluded he had finally found a way out . |
| 24 | But they had never mentioned these despicable attacks to me ; they had kept cheerful faces and shown me all the love and care they had always given me , their prodigal son . |
| 25 | First the marshals would n't even let Hunt get back into the car to try to get himself going again ; then , on the long walk back to the pits , Hunt , head hung , had to face the most vituperative barrage of noise and insult I have ever heard . |