Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook my hand , wished me luck and said , ‘ You 'll be a new man . ’ |
| 2 | He gave me schnapps and insisted that I stay at the hotel the SS man had mentioned . |
| 3 | " I 'd have shut me eyes and carried straight on . |
| 4 | He showed me £15 and said his train ticket was £16 and he needed the £1 to get home to his wife and child . |
| 5 | So , he got me handbag and took off with me bottle of DFs and me book from the social and said he 'd give it me back once he 'd cashed enough to pay the bread off . |
| 6 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 7 | I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel . |
| 8 | The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society . |
| 9 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 10 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 11 | I went up the steps until the water barely covered my ankles and tried the doorlatch . |
| 12 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 13 | When I met Jean-Claude I found something in his face , his speech and gestures , that alerted my heart and made it a gift to him . |
| 14 | She took my heart and squashed the sucker flat . |
| 15 | at the crossroads by hampstead tube station i lay down in my heart and wept … |
| 16 | He seemed very moved by my story and said he intended to write an article about it . |
| 17 | Again they swallowed my story and gave me a year 's conditional discharge . |
| 18 | I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door . |
| 19 | I washed and combed and plaited my hair and rubbed my clogs , then I went round and knocked on the door . |
| 20 | Good old Bri , he just looked at me and my hair and said , ‘ It 's a porcupine ! ’ |
| 21 | I was sure the triptych mirror was one of her own treasures and I opened it carefully to see myself as I brushed my hair and applied a quick dab of lipstick , the red paint which marked me as a Westerner as surely as my blue eyes and blondish hair . |
| 22 | Then someone took a grip on my hair and pulled . |
| 23 | They shaved off my hair and sewed up my head . |
| 24 | I broke my faith and smoked one . |
| 25 | The young doctor in charge of my case insisted on telling my GP and wrote to him , but the letter was later withdrawn and suppressed by his superior at my request . |
| 26 | I slipped out of my hiding-place and went to St John 's Wood . |
| 27 | ‘ And it was you who searched my case and came into my room in the night and opened my bag . |
| 28 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 29 | At Watford Gap , though , everything was fine , and a nice tea lady saw my shirt and asked how we 'd got on . |
| 30 | I pulled off my shirt and threw it beyond the woodpile . |