Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 2 | Both men were lifelong friends of his and also had influential careers in Rome . |
| 3 | And if the police had n't investigated him because of that stupid bitch Caroline he 'd have quietly taken what was his and still looked clean . |
| 4 | So Johnny took her hand in his and lightly began to kiss her fingertips . |
| 5 | Bending , he took it in his and then raised it to his lips . |
| 6 | He ought to take a riding-whip to that wife of his and then bed her over and over again until she 's with child . " |
| 7 | The magnetizer [ hypnotism was known as ‘ animal magnetism ’ ] — independently of making the passes and of fixing his eye upon her — often takes her hands between his and then draws his fingers over various parts of her body , now over her face , and then over her body and legs , pressing , perhaps his knees against hers , and sometimes applying ( we have seen this done ) his lips to her stomach , and making insufflations upon it . |
| 8 | Exploratory tools allow learners to investigate views of a given domain which are different from theirs and so to examine consequences and conflicts . |
| 9 | Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit , that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnify thy holy name ; through Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 10 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 11 | I stayed still , hoping desperately that they would not see me , for I knew that if they did they would lose no time in tormenting me and finally killing me . |
| 12 | She was ten years older than me and already married to Jens , himself the youngest son of a neighbouring farmer , without property of his own . |
| 13 | I had a fishing net with me and carefully fished it out . |
| 14 | Me and just sit there copying them . |
| 15 | ‘ Raja had it in for me and just waited its time . |
| 16 | and I was gon na go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me , just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it |
| 17 | So you do n't have to touch it , you just have to talk to me and just leave it sitting there . |
| 18 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 19 | I stop this man and ask him where Bayswater is , but he do n't understand me and just shrugs . |
| 20 | ‘ But in the end the club wanted to keep me and even considered getting Margaret Thatcher involved in the transfer after QPR said no . ’ |
| 21 | Happy are they who never saw me and yet have found faith . ’ |
| 22 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 23 | You made a fool of me and thoroughly enjoyed doing it ! |
| 24 | Benjamin nodded apologetically to Sir John , beckoned to me and hastily followed . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , yes , I knew you did n't trust me and probably do n't now . |
| 26 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 27 | ‘ I was on the ground and Robert came running over me and accidentally gashed my head with his boot , ’ said Barnes . |
| 28 | Reg used every opportunity to take swipes at me and constantly implied that I had lost the confidence of everybody involved with the club . |
| 29 | I would recite some of the lines Grandad had taught me and sometimes sing songs like ‘ Who Will Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ . |
| 30 | She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence … |