Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] he [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |
| 2 | That was something he would never yield up — it was his protection if the Tsar 's soldiers ever tracked him down and tried to drag him back to his regiment to be court-martialled and shot , which was what Mickey Aronson said would happen . |
| 3 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 4 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 5 | He seized the demented man round the shoulders and began to drag him back to safety . |
| 6 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 7 | His young rider , ‘ Wendy ’ , saddled him up , and started to trot him around in the practice ring with a number of other horses . |
| 8 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 9 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 10 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 11 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |