Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Holly lifted the steel bowl to his mouth , tipped and tilted it , swallowed and felt the lukewarm drip in his throat and then the rising sickness , and he clamped his mouth shut , and swallowed again . |
| 32 | Taking account of the fact that things had to be exaggerated and enhanced it was , he said , a true depiction . |
| 33 | At the 8th , which turned back against the wind , his hook was accentuated and cost him strokes . |
| 34 | The soundlessness of nature impressed and solaced her . |
| 35 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 36 | No sound , nothing but the gentle flurry of leaves as the wind lifted and scattered them like pieces of gold across the grass . |
| 37 | All eyes opened now to stare , and indeed the pages of the book were turning back , slowly , hesitantly , lingering erect only to slide onward , sometimes a single leaf , sometimes a stronger breath riffling several over together , almost as though fingers lifted and guided them , even fluttered them past in haste . |
| 38 | He had shed the first and worst load , and as soon as he lifted his head and made to rise on his knees , Rhun 's arm lifted and sustained him . |
| 39 | He then made careful research into the reserve fuel lifted and found we all returned with about 23% of our fuel . |
| 40 | He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period . |
| 41 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
| 42 | With a long , unhappy sigh , Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded and carried them downstairs . |
| 43 | She only hoped she was never attacked and needed him as protector , as he so sweetly put it . |
| 44 | In Miller , in 1954 , the wife had petitioned for divorce , after which her husband attacked and raped her , causing her actual bodily harm . |
| 45 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 46 | And the Colonel had grinned and encouraged it . |
| 47 | It was n't fit for a young girl , he 'd explained in his thick brogue , and her half-brother had grinned and mocked her behind his back . |
| 48 | I jumped into the car after my mum , dad and sister had squeezed and kissed me to death and did up my seat belt . |
| 49 | There was a bit of head-scratching as they pushed , squeezed and levered me into the passenger seat : ‘ The biggest bloke yet ’ . |
| 50 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 51 | Children misbehave when they are discouraged and believe they can not succeed by useful means . |
| 52 | Dinah had always disliked and resented her , never forgetting the pain caused by her birth . |
| 53 | He would n't of come th wa on his Saturday before his birthday he would n't of come and seen me unless he thought he was getting something out of it . |
| 54 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
| 55 | If he had come and kissed me . |
| 56 | He turned , taking the thin paper box in which the ch'a brick had come and set it down , sweeping the fragments up into it , then dropped in the two largest pieces . |
| 57 | Your cousin warned me off again , we had a little set-to in the pub , so I thought I 'd better come and make me mark . ’ |
| 58 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
| 59 | And so I mean I said it quite and I said no , well they have n't come and ask me . |
| 60 | Any time lag , any any period of waiting is because you have n't come and received it . |