Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [pron] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw two holes appear in the windscreen in front of me and I felt pain in my chest . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , Mrs Tuckett spotted me and I saw recognition click into place in her mind before I had to stand up and do my bit . |
| 3 | And now that Donald 's name was on the militia list , the thought of being parted obsessed them and they made love as though each time was the last time . |
| 4 | but she just suddenly went , you and she grabbed hold of this lad , and dragged , she did n't hit him or anything , you know , but I just , oh I thought oh god , you know , I felt so sorry for this kid like , dragged him out to the back , you were talking were n't you ? |
| 5 | As soon as Felicity had left , she let go of him and they stood side by side , as if waiting for someone to photograph and frame them , listening to the slow ascent of Felicity up the stairs . |
| 6 | And it worked for him and we set type by hand and pulled proofs . |
| 7 | " Whisky for him and she drank wine , " was his verdict . |
| 8 | He was standing on top of one of the crush barriers by the look of it and when the goal went in he either jumped or the surge forward did the job for him and he defied gravity for a while . |
| 9 | At first , as always , he felt lonely and homesick ; he suffered from the fate of many famous men : according to one observer , most people were afraid to talk to him and he ate dinner alone at the Nassau Club . |
| 10 | I cuddled him and he grabbed hold of me bum ! |
| 11 | The crowd of bystanders made way for him and he caught sight of Ernie Passmore among them . |
| 12 | And I said , no I wo n't , I walked past her and I went boosh over her head . |
| 13 | Something in the back of her mind was saying : shock , , you 're in shock , Bernice snap out of it , woman , but she tuned it out and just stared at Ace until the world came back into focus around her and she heard Bishop saying calmly : |
| 14 | It seems that a few years ago Mrs Brissett 's daughter 's husband left her and she had trouble finding a job and had no money … and Harriet helped her find a job somewhere . |
| 15 | He knelt beside her and she saw concern flash across his features . |
| 16 | The question disturbed her and she took time to answer . |
| 17 | Hercules , paying a visit , seduced her and she gave birth to a son , Telephus , with unfortunate consequences for them both , but for Hercules it was a passing encounter . |
| 18 | So John came up and we said er we were wondering who could judge th Christmas card competition and he was saying oh I do n't know , and then th the P T A chairman came up erm we said oh perhaps you should judge the Christmas card competition erm and she said well Melissa is judging it and we said Pardon ! |
| 19 | ‘ He was up to his neck in it and we used rescue lines to haul him out . |
| 20 | ‘ He was up to his neck in it and we used rescue lines to haul him out . |
| 21 | There was some problem that one of them went back and talked to , presumably dad , perhaps mum though , erm and came back with a lovely engineered solution , but that did n't matter — they had fun doing it and they had fun trying these things and , believe me , the answer were ever so close to what the design I was amazed with what they produced . |
| 22 | I said just do it and I said thing is if she just ignores you I said you know not to bother next year . |
| 23 | But your Report that it was a gas-lid — I was able to go ahead with it and I got compensation . ’ |
| 24 | Anyway it drew my attention to it and I thought god god . |
| 25 | He and I fought shoulder to shoulder against appeasement , and against Lord Hailsham . |
| 26 | I lied and said that tea was a habit of mine and I enjoyed company after a hard day . |
| 27 | Alain 's lips closed over hers and she felt passion rising to match his own . |
| 28 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |