Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 2 | As the throng around me rippled and shifted , I had seen the occupants of two other , larger tables . |
| 3 | The record came to an end and everyone clapped and gave high-spirited whoops and whistles . |
| 4 | On a trip to Dublin two of them asked and received permission to share a double room away from ‘ the children ’ . |
| 5 | She closed her eyes and arched blindly against him , let him guide her into another kind of darkness , where that unknown vortex of emotion , that powerful pull of attraction between them swirled and hypnotised , and this time the stars behind her eyelids were brilliant but softly incandescent , fireworks of intense delight , bursting in her head … |
| 6 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 7 | Bumping along the rough track out of the town towards the range of red hills to the south , everyone joked and laughed like children on a school outing . |
| 8 | When he had said these things they all replied that they prayed God to preserve him through long and happy years , and four of the most honourable among them rose and kissed his hands , and the Cid bade them take their seats again . |
| 9 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 10 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 11 | I applied and got the details but never bothered sending off the application form because I did n't think I was capable of doing what was asked . |
| 12 | I happened to see the post advertised with OBEX so I applied and got the job . ’ |
| 13 | Alec and I lowered and carried Father by turns . |
| 14 | Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf . |
| 15 | I schemed and schemed to get that key , but Irina was too clever for me . |
| 16 | I GAZED AND GAZED , BUT LITTLE THOUGHT |
| 17 | I made and ate supper , washed up , then watched the changing view of evening from the haven of the cottage window , and went early to bed . |
| 18 | Then I fainted and fell to the floor . |
| 19 | It seems that Antonietta was nearby when I fainted and arranged for me to be taken back to her house . |
| 20 | I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip . |
| 21 | I argued and pleaded … |
| 22 | I argued and complained , and refused fifty times , but in the end he forced me to agree . |
| 23 | There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours , awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one . |
| 24 | I lived and breathed that show . ’ |
| 25 | I tried to interest both David and Hermione in coming up to Scotland where I lived and to play , would you believe , in ‘ Puss in Boots ’ . |
| 26 | First thing , I went to the boarding-house where I lived and put on my suit . |
| 27 | How nice to have rose coloured spectacles which must be worn by Carole Hedger ; five years in Spain without Carole 's spectacles , the Spain in which I lived and worked appeared very different . |
| 28 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 29 | The stairs were my usual route to the ‘ hell-hole ’ in which I lived and walking up them I had to dodge numerous heaps of ‘ gunk ’ . |
| 30 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |