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 . |