Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They produced a file which they said was his and took out of it an indistinct , green photograph of someone carrying a parcel . |
| 2 | He held both her hands in his and looked down at the pale blur of her face . |
| 3 | He got his brother to look after the bar for an hour or so , bundled Maidstone into a taxi driven by a friend of his and set off for Maidstone 's apartment in the Vomero . |
| 4 | He took it in both of his and smiled down at her . |
| 5 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
| 6 | He swivelled his chair away from me and stared out of the window . |
| 7 | Well he , he left he was with Karen he came to me he left me and went down to Gloucester he dithered about running up and down the road between Gloucester and here er Stowmarket . |
| 8 | I moved to one side with Jamie helping me and went down on my hands and knees on a comparatively clean part of the concrete where the oil stains looked old . |
| 9 | Once my husband left me and went back to his ex-wife . |
| 10 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 11 | The pathetic , skinny dog was scratching around the dustbin searching for the slightest bit of food , until she took one look at me and shot off with her tail between her legs . |
| 12 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 13 | I started to run up , straight up the hill , erm lucky the monster was running straight at me and sticking out of the crowd and he tripped over and after the end |
| 14 | The 21-year-old McCracken , who makes his debut in tomorrow 's home game with Wakefield , said : ‘ I 've come to England with a bit of a reputation but I want to put all that behind me and get on with playing rugby and improving my game . |
| 15 | He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow , the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live . |
| 16 | Watch him stretch , yawn , look across at me and come out with those perfect forty-year-old clichés they use to make the time pass easily and without controversy . |
| 17 | What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand . |
| 18 | He pushed past me and ran out of the house . |
| 19 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 20 | ‘ Yeah , well , ’ Andy says , coming to stand near me and look out over the water . |
| 21 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 22 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 23 | Marrying me and coming out to Jamaica , I mean ? ’ |
| 24 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 25 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been lying to me and covering up for them all along . |
| 27 | He clipped me and spun off into the wall and broke his neck . ’ |
| 28 | Alec slipped by me and set off towards the changing room at a sprint . |
| 29 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 30 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |