Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said my vows a bit too loud and they seemed to echo round the light oak panelling of the room ; Gill seemed to overcompensate and whispered hers so that the registrar and I could only just hear . |
| 2 | He took her arm and led her indoors whether she wanted to go or not and Jenna said nothing more . |
| 3 | He took his hand and led him away and Mister Johnny went like a lamb . |
| 4 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 5 | I knew immediately what I wanted to call the rose , and asked her there and then . |
| 6 | Germaine Meyer was wearing a sky-blue blouse that summer afternoon and Modigliani was immediately arrested by her colouring , a blend of rose and white , and asked her eagerly if he could paint her . |
| 7 | Bullinger stayed with me , and asked me quietly whether I thought that there was any hope for her … |
| 8 | ‘ I stormed round to see Mike Slide — he 's the new head of Topical Features — and asked him outright if it was true . |
| 9 | I like him and read him again and again ; and his tartness , his acid humour , his honesty , his feeling for certain English types and certain kinds of English scenery do appeal to me very much . |
| 10 | Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in . |
| 11 | and I went in shop I said a sack of dog food I said German Shepherd and got it home and I thought this looks different , it were ginormous chunk things in it and he were going ptew , ptew and they were all over garden |
| 12 | Now you d you went and interrupted me there and , and I 've forgotten what I was saying which was right . |
| 13 | We got the words up there and timed it right and everything and then a rehearsal was done . |
| 14 | ‘ It will be a stormy night , ’ Michael said , and Crane , leaning forward , took Allen 's dagger from his belt and flung it outside where it clattered on the stones . |
| 15 | When he saw the finished portrait Cocteau was shaken and described it privately as ‘ diabolical ’ . |
| 16 | The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling . |
| 17 | The blade tore Isambard 's cotte not an inch below his heart , but he had caught the lunging wrist in his left hand and jerked it outwards and downwards , and the thrust sliced through cotte and shirt down his ribs , and left only a harmless surface graze behind . |
| 18 | On Wednesday he came and found her just as she was finishing off applying a back-slab to a fractured wrist . |
| 19 | The recent fixed-rate mortgage offers , such as those from the Halifax ( fixed rate at 10.80% for five years ) and National Westminster Bank ( 10.95% for two years ) may look attractive if one was paying 15.75% in 1989 and found it all but impossible to make ends meet . |
| 20 | She wondered if he had ever brought Suzanne Regan here and found it more than usually difficult to wipe the thought from her mind . |
| 21 | He leaned back in his chair and regarded her intently while a warm breeze which had sprung up ruffled his black hair . |
| 22 | That seemed to have been what he had in mind , as he put a paw on the back of my neck and bent me forward until my face was squished into the table top . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I grabbed the knife and bent it double so it could n't do any more damage . ’ |
| 24 | For answer , he fired the engine and drove her quickly and silently back to the cottage . |
| 25 | He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it . |
| 26 | The Jewish family got back their papers and told me afterwards that if I had n't been there to see it , God knows what might have happened to them . |
| 27 | ‘ They have offered me no protection and told me bluntly if I do n't like the job I can quit . ’ |
| 28 | Very soon the landlord appeared , and told her shortly that he possessed neither car nor pony-and-trap . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I did ask if they 'd had a nice meal , but Lisabeth just ‘ harrumphed ’ so I dropped the subject and told them instead that I was going to meet Duncan and collect Salome 's car . |