Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shocked the earth it slammed into , and those shock waves slammed into the soles of your feet and raged through your body and paralysed your mind . |
| 2 | Their lack of involvement on any deep level with men was , in its way , a liberation and perhaps explains why so many women , too , admired them , copied their looks and envied their freedom of behaviour . |
| 3 | Satisfied , he knelt and cleansed his hands in a pool of salt water and walked back down to where the ferryman was patiently waiting for him . |
| 4 | Manufacturers of dynamite and the other nitro-organics plied their trade as placidly as ever ; manufacturers of ammonium nitrate fertiliser merely desensitised it and countered its hygroscopicity with kaolin or kieselguhr instead of wax . |
| 5 | He pays up for the Big Turn but , ’ she shook her head and compressed her lips together , ‘ she 's never once swept that stair . ’ |
| 6 | However , this was not the key issue for Great Russians , those who historically had participated in the dismemberment of Poland and oppressed its people . |
| 7 | I have always remembered her as saying ‘ One came between brothers and shared their tutor ’ as an explanation of her knowledge of Greek . |
| 8 | This worked as a strategy at least for as long as the persons involved lived in the same household and shared their resources . |
| 9 | By night , they made love and shared their dreams . |
| 10 | On the day of the launch of At First Sight at London Colney , on September 20 , among many moving moments as crews meet up and shared their memories , there was a most poignant presentation . |
| 11 | We enjoyed their music and shared their worship and we came back changed and enriched and I commend number twenty seven to everyone 's attention . |
| 12 | That was an unforgettable night : we watched the ship arrive in the company of local Christians and shared their joy and their fear . |
| 13 | Tommie listened in awe and shared their fear as aircrew described vicious head-on assaults by enemy fighters . |
| 14 | Alfred Russel Wallace ( 1823–1913 ) , who actually discovered the theory of natural selection independently of Darwin and shared its glory with him , came from that tradition of artisan science and radicalism which played so important a part in the early nineteenth century and which found ‘ natural history ’ so congenial . |
| 15 | He sat down and shared her blanket . |
| 16 | I have wept copiously and shared my feelings with a woman , that is , my intended . |
| 17 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 18 | The Octobrist leadership were broadly sympathetic to Stolypin 's proposals for legal and administrative changes , and shared his hope that cooperation between Duma and government would strengthen the State 's authority , check the pretensions of minority nationalities and reduce social tension . |
| 19 | In 1844 his father and younger brother died : his mother devoted her life thereafter to John and shared his home for twenty years . |
| 20 | Then he met Iris Barry last New Year 's Eve and shared his sense of inadequacy with her . |
| 21 | It has borne his burdens , taken part in his wars , and shared his leisure pursuits but , incongruously , its most important period began with the start of the industrial revolution ; as man invented machines to revolutionise his industry , he found more need for the heavy horse ; it provided the means of transport and made possible the rapid improvements in agriculture required to feed the expanding population . |
| 22 | It is not nearly so intriguing for this writer as is the closed book of Vincent 's intimate life in this unlikely household , with a woman who allowed him to clean her up , who tended and fed her like a mother , rocked the cradle of her newborn baby , and shared his food and his room with her . |
| 23 | She looked up into his face and resisted the urge to snatch the folder from his hand and strew its contents defiantly across the carpet . |
| 24 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 25 | Stavrogin writes : ‘ I 've tried the depths of debauchery and wasted my strength over it ; but I do n't like debauchery and never wanted it . ’ |
| 26 | After putting her hat and coat back on , she looked in the mirror , and she twisted her face up and stabbed her fingers towards her reflection as she said , ‘ That is n't me ! |
| 27 | He shook his head and stabbed his fingers through his hair . |
| 28 | He drew the sword and stabbed his attacker , Martin Day , who was later jailed for 18 months . |
| 29 | He paused and stabbed his match at me . |
| 30 | She just sat over a leisurely breakfast and planned her day , and never looked back after that . |