Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 2 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 3 | She hooked me and took me in tow . |
| 4 | When PC Stennett was sent to investigate he searched Hagans , but he found nothing and left him in the car park . |
| 5 | The whistle blew at 4.45 am and at intervals until six , dismissed them and summoned them from breakfast and dinner , and finally in the evening at 5.30 pm . |
| 6 | Nurse found them and cracked them between her fingernails the way Smallfry sometimes did when he was made to kneel with his head in her lap , breathing her perfume and savouring the rare closeness of her . |
| 7 | But at this thought rage grasped her and shook her with red-hot hands , so that her eyes went dark and she found herself walking fast up the road , and then along another , and another , walking as though she would explode if she stopped . |
| 8 | He wooed her and wed her within a few months . |
| 9 | DETECTIVES are hunting two youths who kidnapped a woman driver , sexually assaulted her and abandoned her in a burning car . |
| 10 | James Spencer QC , prosecuting , alleged Mr Nichol approached Mrs Chandler in a field but when she ignored him he pulled her down the bank , sexually assaulted her and hit her on the head with a rock or rocks . |
| 11 | ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’ |
| 12 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 13 | Valerie looked cautiously round , then , lowering her voice , said : ‘ Weeks ago our little kitten ran into the wood , and she caught him and turned him into a witch 's cat . ’ |
| 14 | The thought disturbed her and brought her to her knees by Scathach 's scarred corpse . |
| 15 | The girl was dishevelled , her hair a mess , but she only laughed as he caught her and pulled her into another room . |
| 16 | She spun to run up the stairs but he caught her and pulled her into his arms . |
| 17 | Across the moors they pursued her until at last , near the North Cornish coast , they caught her and urged her to chose between them . |
| 18 | Illness overtook him and delayed him until August , but he was in England in September . |
| 19 | ’ We stopped her and took her into the back room where we found she was n't fat at all . |
| 20 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 21 | I approached him and asked him about caddying for him , and I was very pleased when he said yes . |
| 22 | Caroline jerked her hand back , and Nicolo caught it and held it in his . |
| 23 | He believed that his body was a good guide to his character and he punished it and indulged it by turns . |
| 24 | She sucked her teeth , took another ticket down at random , glanced at it , crumpled it and tossed it into the disposal by her left knee . |
| 25 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a letter somewhere , ’ Sister Cooney searched until she found it and handed it to him . |
| 27 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 28 | He lowered himself and kissed her through the weave . |
| 29 | Some person noticed them and hated them for what they were . ’ |
| 30 | And dried them and put them on the rack again . |