Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 2 | She wished she could confide in Ella , but it was far too risky and she knew she would feel worse if anyone in the house knew about the baby . |
| 3 | It was risky and she knew it . |
| 4 | But at least my goals were clear and I knew what I wanted . |
| 5 | This time he seemed ill at ease and jumpy and I noticed his face was slick with perspiration when he spun to greet me . |
| 6 | The best time to visit is in stormy conditions when the birds are on the wing , but the day we went was calm and we saw them only sitting on their nests . |
| 7 | And God was faithful and I passed my exams . |
| 8 | We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing . |
| 9 | But he was OK and he sent her a big kiss . |
| 10 | She might lose him but for now he was as enslaved as she was and Maggie caressed him as he caressed her until his kisses grew more demanding and he turned her beneath him again . |
| 11 | Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel . |
| 12 | I felt my hand touch something feathery and I pulled it out to see what it was . |
| 13 | At first it all seemed dreadfully wrong and we did what our family always do in such situations ; we were facetious . |
| 14 | Mr Wakerley said Sams ' first ransom plot involving Julie Dart went wrong and he killed her . |
| 15 | At the weekend I received a letter and a petition from a young girl called Frances aged nine years old and it brought it home to me that it is n't an adult centred er erm issue , that it 's one for everybody who lives in Leicestershire . |
| 16 | Well he took the old and he offered him out . |
| 17 | Having secured his freedom , his sexual appetite continued unabated and he threw himself into an even more vigorous life of carnal debauchery . |
| 18 | It came free and he threw it at me . |
| 19 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 20 | His face was flushed and damp and he mopped his forehead with a large handkerchief . |
| 21 | He apologised for the damp and she shook her head . |
| 22 | so anyway he went right on until the Saturday and he said look , on the Friday they called us in and they said look we 're gon na take him to the ward I 'm afraid there 's nothing else we can do , just deteriorating and he said there 's no |
| 23 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 24 | You mean she told you she was n't interested and you believed her ? |
| 25 | However , a few newspapers were interested and I found myself giving about a dozen interviews . |
| 26 | Driving to Glasgow I wondered how easy it was to get lost and end up in Wales or Norfolk or somewhere , but once it began , it was so exciting and I saw one could n't get lost , not even if one tried . |
| 27 | ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation on him . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation . ’ |
| 29 | Prior to 1979 , most local authorities were Conservative-controlled and they considered themselves to be local authorities , not Governments . |
| 30 | And then suddenly he did stop and she was all sticky and messy and she thought he would speak to her now and comfort her or beg her in his whisper to kiss him , as he had done under the bridge the other nights they 'd met . |