Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it . |
| 2 | By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it . |
| 3 | Galileo had already opened the door to natural philosophy , and Hobbes supposed he was following Gilbert , Kepler , Gassendi , Harvey , and Mersenne , through it . |
| 4 | We made the camp and Melanie shot me a smile as she jumped out . |
| 5 | He had a winging moustache and a goatee beard but he moved tentatively , uncertainly , and Melanie guessed it was Finn who worked him . |
| 6 | But as they walked towards the car park , buttoning up their coats against the frost , footsteps came up quickly behind and Pascoe joined them . |
| 7 | At a speed that neither could match Louisa and Horrocks saw him hasten back down the lake . |
| 8 | Without saying anything further , Millie turned and went back into the house ; and Ben followed her , there to see Aggie shambling into the room , and although her eyes looked full of sleep , their powers of discernment were indeed wide awake . |
| 9 | He was based in London and Ben felt he would be sympathetic to the subject . |
| 10 | Karen thought of Tony , and Jessica knew it from her face . |
| 11 | She sat down to rage silently but in spite of every effort to work herself up rage would not come and honesty forced her to face facts . |
| 12 | She had stopped her tears with the heel of her hand , and face-paint smeared it . |
| 13 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 14 | It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged . |
| 15 | Their structures and attitudes alienated me from participating more fully . |
| 16 | Waterman hit back saying both Kylie and Jason knew they were successful actors before their pop success and were aware of the dangers . |
| 17 | That being the case , Ann and I quickly arranged to visit our son , to see his new home — and have a few casts ; and Blair took me to where he had landed his sea-trout , in the sea-pool between Clett headland and Rubha Glas , over the golden sands at Geireann . |
| 18 | And Arabella knew she was pregnant — she would have wanted to take care . |
| 19 | And then she said to me , and then , when I was going , she went to me , would you like to come on holiday , I went , then she went , because of me and mum and dad , we went another day to holiday , we went to beach , and er , mum said , that , yeah , mum said that she was saying , erm , to her , why , why is it not , what was it she said , about the weather , mum was moaning saying it was cold , and she went why , why are n't we go on holiday , mum , and mum said we ca n't , we ca n't afford to go on holiday , and she ah , why do n't we go to seaside when it 's cold . |
| 20 | ‘ I was talking about some of the funny things that happen there and Mum said it was the sort of place he should be going to . ’ |
| 21 | He sat me down roughly on the sofa and Mum said she was going to find out what I was on about . |
| 22 | Pete ran ahead and opened the big glass doors as he usually did and Mum lifted him up to press the button for the lift . |
| 23 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 24 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 25 | Dad spotted them and Mum tore us apart . |
| 26 | Pete rushed off and fetched his big crayons and Mum showed him how to colour the middle of the wheels to make hub caps . |
| 27 | Remember when Dad found that puffball up there and Mum did it with bacon — ? ’ |
| 28 | You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city . |
| 29 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 30 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |