Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He sat down and beamed his good eye at the shine on his toecap .
2 It both created the revolution and paralysed it .
3 It shocked the earth it slammed into , and those shock waves slammed into the soles of your feet and raged through your body and paralysed your mind .
4 She disappeared , then reappeared behind the counter and whispered something to the girl who was on duty there .
5 The little maid whom Elisa had seen earlier standing by the door in the sitting room came into the dining room on both occasions and whispered something into his ear .
6 The proprietor took over , and was still serving the portions when one of the waitresses came in and whispered something to Delaney .
7 The dark man had embraced her before he mounted , and whispered something no one else could hear .
8 Cousin Jane looked across at her and smiled and whispered something to Mike .
9 Then he leaned forward and whispered something into his left ear .
10 She gasped , and whispered something incoherently , her body shaking .
11 I watched as he sat next to him , and whispered something into his ear , the small man cringed slightly and looked as the middle aged woman had done at the tattered ‘ Summer Sun ’ adverts .
12 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 .
13 Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) .
14 Their lack of involvement on any deep level with men was , in its way , a liberation and perhaps explains why so many women , too , admired them , copied their looks and envied their freedom of behaviour .
15 I half disapproved of these costumes , they made me feel uncomfortable , but at the same time I admired and envied her , she was so original and unconcerned .
16 I always admired him for his tenacity of purpose and dedication — and envied his super brain-power .
17 Satisfied , he knelt and cleansed his hands in a pool of salt water and walked back down to where the ferryman was patiently waiting for him .
18 Nevertheless , having called for boiling water and cleansed his best knife over a candle flame , he took the risk .
19 Manufacturers of dynamite and the other nitro-organics plied their trade as placidly as ever ; manufacturers of ammonium nitrate fertiliser merely desensitised it and countered its hygroscopicity with kaolin or kieselguhr instead of wax .
20 With the aid of a crane ‘ DRD was mounted on the pedestal on July 7 and took-up its new job as a permanent monument to the Norseman .
21 When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection .
22 In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government .
23 Love voted for exclusion and concerned himself with related topics .
24 But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ .
25 A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds .
26 He pays up for the Big Turn but , ’ she shook her head and compressed her lips together , ‘ she 's never once swept that stair . ’
27 She took all the bones out of his spinal column and compressed them to nothing , she turned his eyeballs inward , she jellied his legs , she unplugged and rewired his guts .
28 In the thirteenth century the King of france , abetted by a weak Pope , very brutally suppressed the Order of Templars and appropriated their enormous wealth .
29 ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it .
30 However , this was not the key issue for Great Russians , those who historically had participated in the dismemberment of Poland and oppressed its people .
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