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A few minutes later he walked in, slapped five pennies and a nickel on the bar, and said.
In years past, such pranks -- a duck dyed blue, a message written across the school lawn with upright forks -- either went unsolved or resulted in slapped wrists.
Lone customers streamed in, slapped their briefcases down in booths for four, ordered their breakfasts and punched numbers into their cell phones.
Note that, although this DRS captures the most natural interpretation of the past tense in "slapped", it leaves the past tense in "tried" unaccounted for.
For example, the first sentence in [1b] introduces a discourse referent of the event type that represents Pedro's attempting to kiss Juanita, and the tense morpheme in "slapped" is construed as referring back, very much like an anaphoric pronoun, to that event: by default, the time of Juanita's slapping Pedro will be taken to be immediately after the time of him trying to kiss her.
From the way she picked up Fitz's ties from the floor to the way she stormed in, slapped him across the face and yelled "YOU TAKE EVERYTHING FROM ME!" I was absolutely loving Mellie last night.
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In 1936 in Key West, he took enormous pleasure in slapping Stevens into a puddle.
He looked desperate in slapping a ball 50 feet in an important situation.
A video tribute to Newman's role in "Slap Shot" will be shown during the ceremony.
Maybe the time and effort put in slapping Intel should go to making processors.
DirecTV wasted no time in slapping down that idea.
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