Example sentences of "beside [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben the actor appeared beside them and started his piece , and I saw Filmer turn a bland face towards him and watched his mouth shape the unmistakable words , ‘ Go away . ’ |
| 2 | Instead , hoping to expedite matters , he squatted down beside them and gave them a hand . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw the other riders up beside me and outbraked them . |
| 4 | He sat beside me and lent me his shoulder as a back-rest . |
| 5 | Throughout the doctor sat beside me and prodded me whenever I slowed . |
| 6 | When I was ready I went and stood beside him and touched his shadow-stained tired face and said , " You look dead , Toby . |
| 7 | I 've brought you some teal ’ She put the cup down on the floor beside him and touched his shoulder . |
| 8 | They also lay down beside him and pressed their bodies against his to heat him . |
| 9 | I sat beside him and took his hand . |
| 10 | She got into bed beside him and closed her eyes , briefly . |
| 11 | The page came and sat on the bench beside him and spread his arms confidentially across the table , leaning close . |
| 12 | The man held up a hand to silence Barak then turned to the guard beside him and dismissed him with a curt nod of the head . |
| 13 | Topaz sat beside him and held his hand . |
| 14 | Molland picked up the Daily Telegraph lying on the chair beside him and held it out . |
| 15 | Hardly knowing why , she knelt beside him and put her hand on his sleeve as she had done once before . |
| 16 | Philip pulled Lee down beside him and put his hand over his mouth . |
| 17 | I let him cry for a bit and then went over to him and squatted down beside him and put my hand over his shoulders . |
| 18 | I knelt beside him and put my mouth as close to his ear as my nostrils would allow . |
| 19 | He sat on the bed beside her and kissed her gently . |
| 20 | There was , perhaps , relief , almost elation , in her eyes as he sat down beside her and took her hand . |
| 21 | Riven sat beside her and took her hand whilst Finnan introduced the company and told Phrynius something of what had befallen them . |
| 22 | The Archdeacon came and sat down beside her and took her hand . |
| 23 | Then he undressed and lay down beside her and took her in his arms . |
| 24 | He let himself down beside her and took her in his arms , and Leonora yielded to him without a qualm . |
| 25 | Jules paced beside her and said nothing at all , imagining no doubt that she was a poor little orphan . |
| 26 | She lifted a bottle of Champagne from among the photographs cluttering the occasional table beside her and passed it to Charity with an instruction to fill the glasses and hold the chatter , because she insisted on listening to the nine o'clock news on the wireless . |
| 27 | Without waiting to be invited he sat down beside her and crossed his legs , the trousers riding up almost to his calf . |
| 28 | He sat beside her and held her . |
| 29 | He crouched down beside her and put his hand lightly on her shoulder . |
| 30 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |