Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It both created the revolution and paralysed it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching . |
| 8 | Bertha Cohen felt his anxiety and shared it . |
| 9 | Instead , I just lit up a straight fag and shared it with her , Bogart style . |
| 10 | But thy strong Hours indignant work 'd their wills , And beat me down and marr 'd and wasted me , |
| 11 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 12 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 13 | ‘ Suddenly the guy pulled a knife on the bouncer and stabbed him to death-right in front of my eyes . ’ |
| 14 | She induced him to make love to her , and with his normal wits dulled by romantic infatuation she seized his dagger during their lovemaking , and stabbed him . ’ |
| 15 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 16 | The prosecution claims that Westmore James got into a row with the cousin , and stabbed him in the neck on the steps of a social security office . |
| 17 | Mr Kerr had stepped in and overpowered the accused , who then had pulled a knife and stabbed him repeatedly . |
| 18 | It had been alleged that after hiring Mr Mullan 's taxi for a journey from Gourock to Greenock , he produced a hunting knife and stabbed him on the chest . |
| 19 | likely to of had a have a knife in her pocket and turned round and stabbed him . |
| 20 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 21 | She switched on the vibrator , and stabbed it in and out of his backside like a demented piston . |
| 22 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 23 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 24 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 25 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 26 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 27 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 28 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 29 | The window had cost Yanto a lot of money , until the girl 's father heard about it and reimbursed him . |
| 30 | He complained and when the defendants were made aware of his complaint they made sure he received 20 free films and reimbursed him his postage and packing . |