Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was n't — I didn't- ’ Then she saw me laughing and flopped her hands forward in a gesture of relief . |
| 2 | When he had said these things they all replied that they prayed God to preserve him through long and happy years , and four of the most honourable among them rose and kissed his hands , and the Cid bade them take their seats again . |
| 3 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 4 | But in bed I lay and accused him to myself . |
| 5 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 6 | Later he became a close family friend and I envied and admired him , for he got to one remote and interesting place after another — Somaliland , Abyssinia , Kurdistan , Burma and China . |
| 7 | ‘ I planned and did what I have already told you , ’ said Tutilo , suddenly brief and dry . |
| 8 | During 1965–1968 , I rethought and redeveloped my work on semantics until it was accepted for a Ph.D . |
| 9 | My girlfriend and I shouted and screamed our denials , but they would n't believe us . |
| 10 | White continues , ‘ As I never possessed the sense of smelling , and was willing to ascertain the flavour of the liquor , I tasted and found it to be aromatic , tho ’ not very pungent , partaking of the taste of catchup and of the pickle of Spanish olives . ’ |
| 11 | I designed and built it myself . ’ |
| 12 | I bent and put my hand on Debbie 's heart . |
| 13 | We had to have solved so much problems and I just this way and I just would n't have it you know it 's just impossible it 's impossible and I hummed and hawed which way and hummed and hawed which way . |
| 14 | I rose and followed him . |
| 15 | I rose and faced her across the table . |
| 16 | I rose and groped my way towards the fire door . |
| 17 | AGeorge I divorced and imprisoned his cousin Sophia before succeeding Queen Anne in 1714 . |
| 18 | I joked and teased them all until some of the heaviness lifted . |
| 19 | Anyway , I stopped and offered her a lift . |
| 20 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 21 | What if he went , and someone came and saw her there ? |
| 22 | ‘ The police were told that the truck was to be left alone until someone came and got it , ’ Myeloski went on , having regained his breath . |
| 23 | Two sides may each want to beat the other , they may even hate each other as sides , but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about , then they 'd feel together . |
| 24 | He just sobbed until someone came and took him away . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Supposing for instance someone came and said they were Mr Unwin , you would check that his name was on the list and let him in ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If someone came and pinched my bum on the escalator I 'd k-i-c-k him as far as I could down the escalator , ’ Topaz responded with gusto . |
| 27 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 28 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 29 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 30 | ‘ I should have paid it , but I forgot and heard nothing for ages . |