Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house .
2 How many pieces of expensive jewellery , or very collectable coins , did these Victorian visitors lose as they did the social round and took their cures ?
3 This man stopped real quick and blew his horn and shouted summat at me .
4 Strong hands turned Soapy round and helped him out into the street again .
5 Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band .
6 He got bored silly and considered it a complete waste of time .
7 They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity .
8 He calmly snapped the sawn-off closed and swivelled it from the hip towards me .
9 Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind .
10 Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he 'd try his luck .
11 Reference to Freemantle 's letter shows that although Philip and Anne Leapor both attempted to break their daughter of the habit of writing verses , toward the end of the poet 's life some accommodation was reached : ‘ But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , [ her father ] had of late desisted and left her more at Liberty ’ [ vol. 2 , p. xxx ] .
12 Raymond Williams has objected to the ‘ limiting ’ associations ’ which have attached to Stephen Duck 's name : ‘ Stephen Duck … had written one fine poem before the court and the church and neo-classicism patronised and emasculated him . ’
13 As the crowds listened to Christ 's unconventional preaching and observed his miracles they acknowledged him as sent from God .
14 Mr Fletcher , 64 , from Ormskirk , said : ‘ I thought it was a good snap and sent it off but I did n't think any more about it . ’
15 She lifted off a heavy daily and brought it to me .
16 United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline .
17 He applied the flannel repeatedly , then wound it around her tender joint and fastened it again with the safety-pin .
18 He pulled the video-cassette free and gripped it in his free hand , the pistol still trained on the tall
19 Around the latter group were many who had tried the traditional Marxist left and found it wanting .
20 But about a month later I played in a trophy competition and played a disastrous round and put my handicap up to 16 which I 'm trying to get down by playing in two medal competitions in October .
21 Then he waited as one of the two Han brought him anti-static slippers while the other combed and plaited his hair .
22 In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes !
23 He was short and middle aged and carried his cloth cap in his hand .
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