Example sentences of "and [vb past] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you should be happy because you have made your sale , given your customers credit , and avoided giving it yourself . |
| 2 | Last night Theresa 's 28-year-old Colombian boy-friend broke down and admitted killing her to police in 'Arad , southern Israel . |
| 3 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 4 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 5 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 6 | And er I just lost interest all together and stopped doing it . |
| 7 | I stepped inside and got behind her and tried pushing her from that side . |
| 8 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 9 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 10 | Paul ( 3.8 ) pushed the wheelbarrow with the tubes inside and on reaching the small slide stopped and tried rolling them down it . |
| 11 | The classy Irish defender can already picture the season building to a climax with Aston Villa and United slugging it out for the Championship . |
| 12 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 13 | The startled Burmese team withdrew , and returned saying they would endeavour to join in agreed conclusions . |
| 14 | But when they saw Paul Holloway walking towards them in a Bournemouth park they began shouting that he looked like Boris Becker and began jostling him . |
| 15 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 16 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
| 17 | Ignoring her repeated instruction for him to get out , he unrolled the scroll and began spreading it over the desk , using the paperweight and penholder to secure its curling corners . |
| 18 | Daphne took the tube , squeezed a white worm of cream on to Rose 's shoulders and began spreading it with her large , plump hands . |
| 19 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 20 | The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements . |
| 21 | She needed a good diet sheet and daily workouts , Mary Rose decided , and began advising her how to go about it . |
| 22 | However , Gunda struggled free and ran for her life ; but the giant set Wolfhead on her and the dog pulled her down and began mauling her . |
| 23 | Donna climbed into the exhibit and began inspecting them . |
| 24 | Somehow she managed to keep her self-control , opened it at the right page and began reading it slowly , as though she had never seen it before , although she knew every word by heart — because it was written from the heart . |
| 25 | When he returned home very tired on the Saturday evening she turned on him and began nagging him again about the possibility of a separation and that he should make proper commitment to her . |
| 26 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 27 | Satisfied , she helped him into the bath and began soaping him all over ; as usual , he bawled loudly when it came to washing his hair . |
| 28 | ‘ Constable David Owen said : ‘ The crowd remained silent after Downey shouted but when the tribute ended they began punching him round the neck , back and body and began pushing him towards us . ’ ’ |
| 29 | She turned right into the High Street then jumped from the cycle and began pushing it up an alleyway on her left which led into the stables cum car park at the rear of the Berkeley Chase Hotel . |
| 30 | The gang manhandled the 18-foot caravan through the gap in the fence and began pushing it across the field towards the road . |