Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 2 | The woman , tight-lipped , turned her back on them and began to slap the milk vigorously with a peeled wand spiked at one end where smaller branches had been lopped off . |
| 3 | It was mid-morning before the Constable remembered them and came to unbolt the lock-up . |
| 4 | She wrapped her arms around herself and began to pace the room . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I have always kept to making the Ovaltine last thing , and on Friday night I forgot to put the sugar in for him and went to get the bowl . |
| 6 | In his ice-cold and pitch black seclusion , John heard the sounds of his rescuers getting closer to him and tried to count the days by following the shift changes . |
| 7 | Kopyion looked at the staser pointed at him and stood to face the major . |
| 8 | Ariel heard her and managed to decipher the words : ‘ Adesangé , god of the mountain , do not abandon me ! ’ |
| 9 | He rose from a cushioned wicker chair as soon as he saw her and came to take the tray , saying , ‘ You 're Belinda , of course . |
| 10 | When it was the right shape she blew on it , then closed her fist around it and began to massage the bull 's neck and shoulders and back and rump , tapping it hard and rhythmically with the knuckles of the clenched fist . |
| 11 | WHEN CHARLES WEBB 'S novel The Graduate was first published in 1963 , Lawrence Turman , a 37-year-old independent producer with a couple of films to his name — The Young Doctors and I Could Go On Singing — read it , liked it and managed to acquire the rights in 1964 for $20,000 from the ingenuous author . |
| 12 | The Government stopped it and pledged to save the mountain . |
| 13 | ‘ He was pushing a pram with nothing in it and wanted to cross the road , ’ he recalled . |
| 14 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 15 | Perhaps I was ashamed of feeling sorry for myself and had to transfer the pity to something else . |
| 16 | A security guard stopped us and tried to explain the area was closed . |