Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told her story to an officer she did not know and gave him the number of the Bristol callbox . |
| 2 | If he came to me now and knelt and handed me the poker , I could n't hit him . |
| 3 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 4 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 5 | Later , when other countries wanted to make their own cloth from jute , the workers of Dundee made and sold them the textile machinery . |
| 6 | And actually , one day , because she knew it was my favourite , she said that I could have permission to have it copied and gave me the name of the jeweller , which I thought was so sweet . |
| 7 | It scared and disgusted her the way every male she met suddenly started ogling the blancmange under her blouse . |
| 8 | My intervention , such as it was , became well known and earned me the enmity of two or three people whose awards had been either altered or struck out . |
| 9 | Mister Johnny looked at Nick ; then he laughed and gave him the skull . |
| 10 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 11 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |