Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , with great politeness , that he would be in the buttery , always supposing anyone wanted to know , and Tybion the Tusk got up and helped him open the door , just to be friendly . |
| 2 | Every few miles his suitcase bounced out the back of the cart and Tock became annoyed at having to stop and collect it all the time . |
| 3 | The taxi-driver had been born in Glasgow — our second compatriot of the night — and he took pity on ‘ two wee Scotch lassies ’ , and drove us all the way for a very modest remuneration . |
| 4 | She will come back and give us all the strength we need . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd collect up the photos and put 'em hon the bed . |
| 6 | It is when she feels compassion , rather than revulsion , for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks . |
| 7 | ‘ If you open your big mouth again I 'll ram this sodding box over your head and kick you all the way back to the clubhouse . ’ |
| 8 | We went round there and showed us all the way round |
| 9 | How you do this will depend upon your own personality and your relationship with her , but however it is done , the message she will be hoping to receive through your words and actions will be that you care , you sympathise , and that you are going to stand by her and give her all the help and comfort you can in the months that lie ahead . |
| 10 | She can contact the hospital or the Social Services where who 've agreed to er to talk to her and give her all the advice and comfort that she needs . |
| 11 | Erm my Guild always say they 're lucky in having me because I 've come back and give them all the information and they seem to be so well-educated themselves now you know . |
| 12 | But they had never mentioned these despicable attacks to me ; they had kept cheerful faces and shown me all the love and care they had always given me , their prodigal son . |
| 13 | It is a three-day journey to the land of Moriah , yet he cuts the wood for Isaac 's funeral pyre before he sets off , and takes it all the way with him . |
| 14 | She got a cardigan and walked him all the way out the lane . |
| 15 | They breakfasted , then picked up the autobahn at Leipzig and followed it all the way to Dresden . |
| 16 | The morning it was announced a vast audience arrived for Ramsey 's lecture and cheered him all the way up to the dais . |
| 17 | You just have to be patient and allow her all the time she wants in which to ‘ say her piece ’ . |
| 18 | Marc slid it off and trailed it all the way back along her inner arm as he withdrew his own . |
| 19 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 20 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 21 | He had a good head for numbers , and recited it all the way down St Martin 's Lane and into Monmouth Street ; then he went in a shop for a coffee and wrote it down on one of the paper napkins . |
| 22 | And carrying them all the way to the |
| 23 | She completely ignored her husband until he fell asleep in his chair , whereupon she woke him up and berated him all the way up the stairs , their shouting and swearing affecting the children not one iota . |
| 24 | Because this one , you could chopping and changing it all the time , it 's very an administrative nightmare |
| 25 | The alderman pulled his fur-lined bed robe around him , moving restlessly on the stone-flagged corridor and making it obvious the coroner should leave . |
| 26 | She walked warily as if his colourless eyes were judging and assessing her all the time . |
| 27 | She could put all but the most essential tasks off until the next day , or the next , and did it all the time . |
| 28 | He used to come and visit me all the time , he brought money and a radio and them kind of luxuries . |
| 29 | It is no good thinking that secateurs will keep a 30ft ( 9m ) monster down to 10 or ft ( 3 or 4m ) — the plant will take on the challenge , break forth with even greater vigour , and fight you all the way . |
| 30 | Well he should of carried it home and carried it all the way back again |