Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She designed and made a gift to the village of a beautiful war memorial — a font cover in bronze and silver of a mother and baby . |
| 2 | She winced and put a hand to her head . |
| 3 | Corbett rose and filled a goblet of wine . |
| 4 | Even more annoyed by that intrusive thought , Guy scowled furiously as Isabel rose and took a beaker from the table , filling it with water from the pail . |
| 5 | After spending a quarter of an hour in the heat of the sauna , Agnes rose and took a dip in a small pool filled with ice-cold water . |
| 6 | Later in the year British exports to the EC rose and left a gap for the NZ product ‘ and this is where our strategy over the past few years paid off . ’ |
| 7 | At the front , two high curved windows gave a view of the square garden while at the rear one huge expanse of glass looked out over a stone wall with three niches , each containing a marble statue ; Venus , naked , one hand delicately shielding the mons Veneris , one pointing at her left nipple , a second female figure , half robed and wearing a wreath of flowers and , between them , Apollo with his lyre , laurel-crowned . |
| 8 | Walking over to Ashley he bent and dropped a kiss on the top of her head . |
| 9 | There was a copper canopy over it and Alain bent and put a light to the logs that were already there . |
| 10 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 11 | On the first landing he stopped and stole a glance down the Nightingale Gallery , so engrossed he jumped when Allingham suddenly touched him on the shoulder . |
| 12 | He stopped and put a hand on Corbett 's shoulder . |
| 13 | When I approached and held a piece of chicken out to him he opened his eyes in surprise and at first refused to take it . |
| 14 | Fielding knelt and ticked a fingernail against the sedimented glass of the fishtank . |
| 15 | Her hand wanted to rise : he found and made a tent for it with his own . |
| 16 | WHEN Ringo Starr announced himself in Cancun , Mexico , he was wined and dined , chauffered and given a week of radio interviews . |
| 17 | Victorine stooped and lifted a corner of the carpet . |
| 18 | In a sense , he could charm the birds from the trees , because he adopted and tamed a variety of wildlife . |
| 19 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 20 | He came and had a glass of wine with us while we ate the meal he 'd cooked . |
| 21 | Well , the inspector came and noticed a hole in the roof and told us to mend it . |
| 22 | A plumber came and installed a row of six washbasins in the cloakroom with running water , hot and cold at each , though they still had to run across the playground in all weathers to reach the outside lavatories . |
| 23 | Impulsively she came and placed a kiss on Leith 's cheek . |
| 24 | What would you do if they came and built a hotel on this stretch of coast ? |
| 25 | Her father came and put a hand on her shoulder . |
| 26 | Barbara Norrice , who came and gave a session on teaching the disabled has agreed to staff the day . |
| 27 | ‘ Now I 'll go back and tell that silly little receptionist what a silly little toad he is too and if he does n't turn over the keys to the apartment that I booked and paid a deposit on I 'll scream all the way to his boss . ’ |
| 28 | He jinked and tried a burst at long range , but the Halberstadt was diving hard now and pulling away . |
| 29 | There was no such professional method about Blackadder , who nevertheless noticed and corrected a plethora of errors , accompanying this correction with a steady series of disparaging comments on the declining standard of English education . |
| 30 | A dramatic change took place when she met and had a row with her husband . |