Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cornelius stooped and returned them to him . |
| 32 | Cadfael stooped and took it in both hands , and lifted it , and it parted from its setting without trailing a blade of grass or a torn edge of moss . |
| 33 | He dropped his carpet-bag , stooped and helped her to her feet . |
| 34 | Instead , he bewildered and tormented him with his tactical positioning , then launched attacks that showed a desire to win the Tour for a record sixth time . |
| 35 | As we went on the road with him , to Rodel and Stornoway and ( uncomfortably ) to Inverness , I think we suffered and understood something of our own dark side . |
| 36 | Easy-E says representatives of Sony intimidated and threatened him during a meeting in 1991 at the SOLAR Records office in Hollywood . |
| 37 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 38 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |
| 39 | Seb was out harrowing one of his own fields when the young stable-hand came and told him of Christian 's arrival . |
| 40 | And the police came and interviewed me about it . |
| 41 | I stood and looked at it and it came and rubbed itself against my leg . |
| 42 | And on a Saturday with Jenny going in if there 's any overtime you and old what's-a-name was there and he came and tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 43 | She came and kissed him in her brisk way . |
| 44 | She came and kissed him like an anteater , and he went out of the door . |
| 45 | She stood her ground — he came and planted himself in front of her . |
| 46 | The footman came and dismantled it for me and I brought a chair to the French windows , quite casually , and there was natural light coming in . |
| 47 | Afterwards Aunt Louise came and took me to her room , leading the way up a strange little creaking curving staircase . |
| 48 | Mrs Donnan came and took me by the hand . |
| 49 | She shook her head , lifting her coat down from the peg , her heart beating double time as he came and took it from her to slide it smoothly up her arms . |
| 50 | Well , it did n't do them much good May Lee came and rescued me In fact she seized me by the arm ‘ Well ? ’ she said |
| 51 | And oh probably after this meeting , not now , apparently Peter came and see me about samples procedure , I E marketing . |
| 52 | He finished dressing , then came and held her by the shoulders , kissing her lightly on the mouth . |
| 53 | They talked for ages , making their drinks last , and no one came and bothered them at all . |
| 54 | She was at court every time with me , and she came and visited me at Holloway . |
| 55 | He came and threw himself on our bed , shaking all over . |
| 56 | ‘ I called — quite unexpectedly — just before you came and found her in bed , so I 'm filling her hot water bottle . ’ |
| 57 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 58 | Thus , the primary musical materials represent only the starting point for an investigation into who actually played and sang what in these ballets . |
| 59 | In the frenzy of dancing they lifted and tossed her from one to another , effortlessly through the air like seaweed in the sea . |
| 60 | They claimed that Philip III of France , his court and his officers had recently ( a modico tempore ) hindered and troubled them by citing them before other courts — not only the Paris Parlement , but the court of the French seneschal of Périgord . |