Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found she hardly cared and when Mr Browning , with some evidence of concern for her , said that he feared they must take Ferdinando to Rome almost as soon as they all returned to Florence in October , she simply nodded . |
| 2 | The boy approached him wide eyed and breathless . |
| 3 | What was even more worrying was that she had never cried and even when he remonstrated with her and told her bluntly that their two children were dead and buried she just smiled and turned away . |
| 4 | He pressed it gently shut and it held ; loosely and with a slight gap , but it held . |
| 5 | This painful , though , in its context , highly effective course of action was part and parcel of a brutal and unenlightened society and no doubt it left all those who survived it spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred . |
| 6 | My mind 's eye saw it well tamed and abloom with all kinds of ground-cover plants . |
| 7 | He said he felt he often failed and yet it was important to keep on trying . |
| 8 | In the morning his head felt as if the cast of a soap opera had moved in uninvited during the night , and the effort of following their interminable dreary intrigues left him mentally soiled and worn , less refreshed than when he 'd gone to bed . |
| 9 | Eventually , he left it fully wrapped and fastened with a safety-pin . |
| 10 | The crowd cheered the Empress who responded with a curtsy — that famous gesture which those who witnessed it never forgot and which became the hallmark of Eugénie 's graciousness . |
| 11 | However , the Foreign Office said it warmly welcomed and supported the US move to step up its contribution . |