Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] and [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who had forgotten about them and gone off , leaving all those trunks up there ? |
| 2 | But it should be equal for everyone and based purely on ability . |
| 3 | Robert picked up a wineglass from the low table that stood between them and scratched with a fingernail at the dry stain on the bottom of the glass . |
| 4 | Hoping against all hope that Claire had n't snapped the last link between them and gone to look for that bastard … |
| 5 | He made my guitar riffs up for me and used to present the rest of us with tapes , ’ says Solowka . |
| 6 | Initially , older people were removed from the community supports which traditionally looked after them and subjected to the rigours of a ‘ work or starve ’ philosophy . |
| 7 | An old man shuttled after her and hooked a horticultural implement of a hand around her arm . |
| 8 | ‘ We drove in after him and stopped about six or seven spaces away . |
| 9 | The war inside himself was a small conflagration compared with the bombardments he saw for himself and read about daily . |
| 10 | ‘ Definitely , people have been respectful towards me and given me some free time . |
| 11 | He came towards me and stopped about 10 to 15 yards away , put his hand inside his bomber jacket and brought out a monster hand-held cannon which he pointed in my direction . |
| 12 | I wheeled left towards them and called ‘ Tiger ’ on the R/T to take the outside man on their port flank while I took the leader . |
| 13 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 14 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 15 | He noticed that he was almost out of them and fumbled in his jacket pocket for some change to feed into the cigarette machine . |
| 16 | Rocks are grouped together and then crushed paper is put on top of them and painted , to form the grotto . |
| 17 | She had spoken affectionately of them and shown Lou a postcard from Italy where they were spending a holiday . |
| 18 | They wanted them all back when I agreed to sell — at their price — but I said I 'd spilt coffee on some of them and thrown them away . |
| 19 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 20 | The central image is of a man in full control of himself and determined to enjoy the experience . |
| 21 | Then Gascoigne , hitherto a pale shadow of himself and stifled by the physical attention of man-marker Walter Bonacina , made his heroic contribution and doused those particular flames . |
| 22 | He was trying to convince him of something and kept at it . |
| 23 | It was quite another to feel she had made a complete fool of herself and taken her daughter alone so far from the safety of Four Winds . |
| 24 | He drew her towards him and planted an affectionate kiss on her forehead . |
| 25 | The Labrador , a much easier-going animal , edged its way towards her and sprawled at her side , wistfully eyeing her food but much too well mannered to help himself . |
| 26 | She saw his head coming down towards her and prepared to accept his kiss . |
| 27 | Her jaw dropped as the woman walked past her and stopped by the car . |
| 28 | Ace , holstering her gun , brushed past her and loped towards the doorway . |
| 29 | He must have followed her upstairs , for when she knocked at Meredith 's door the man pushed past her and hammered with his fist on the door , crying , ‘ It 's the pot-man from Dore 's Lodge , Mr Meredith . |
| 30 | Maggie let go of her and called up the stairs . |