Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One morning , as we were sailing round the Cape of Good Hope , they attacked me and tied me up . |
| 2 | When machines went funny you just oiled them or prodded them or , if nothing else worked , hit them with a hammer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Afterwards , he got me and asked what I was doing in the doorway with Symington . |
| 5 | This time they were sent to Alfred Bowles of Ipswich and bear the inscription " Alfred made me and hung us all " . |
| 6 | Ben looked into her eyes and she lowered them and turned her head away . |
| 7 | The horses moved in their stalls as she passed them and threaded her way to the ladder . |
| 8 | The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives . |
| 9 | She hooked me and took me in tow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They 've melted them , dissolved them , cracked them and fished them out — now they 're going to attack them with an electric whisk . |
| 12 | In a book by Rosenau , I saw drawings of buildings designed by Etienne-Louis Boullèe that both moved me and astonished me . |
| 13 | Aunt Margaret stroked them and adored them and fastened them round Melanie 's neck . |
| 14 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 15 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 16 | Let me go ! ’ and flung her hands out and he caught them and held them firmly . |
| 17 | And the Old Bill came down and found them and nicked us , even after what they 'd said . |
| 18 | He felt for the edges of the square door , found them and lifted it gently . |
| 19 | He found them and lit one , languidly inhaling the smoke . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 22 | At last year 's AAA Championships she turned up , found me and introduced herself . |
| 23 | Biff found me and thrashed me . |
| 24 | ‘ The reason I 'm here is because my brother phoned me and told me your cousin was in urgent need of a tutor . |
| 25 | She phoned me and asked me to come straight over . |
| 26 | I left him the fare I had been quoted , but he pursued me and stopped me entering my flat . |
| 27 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 28 | She paced me and paced me wrong . ’ |
| 29 | Although small , my enthusiasm for all Sports helped me and gave me some popularity at school . |
| 30 | Stopped me and told me he 'd let him go to St Francis Xavier 's . |