Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 2 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 3 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 4 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 5 | And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave . |
| 6 | He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him , became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor . |
| 7 | He thought it about the stupidest remark he 'd ever made — and so did she by the look on her face . |
| 8 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 9 | She took a couple of tentative steps but he reached out and swiftly held her by the shoulders . |
| 10 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 11 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 12 | and only stuck me on the payroll |
| 13 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 14 | Charlie laughed , and gently cuffed him on the head . |
| 15 | He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him . |
| 16 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 17 | Lawyer C had conveyed his house in the teeth of a re-possession order from a loan company , and generally extricated him from the debts of his own dissolved partnership . |
| 18 | A few years later Clement V , formerly archbishop of Bordeaux , granted Edward further papal tenths , and thus relieved him of the need to tax the clergy directly or even to seek subsidies from his difficult lay subjects . |
| 19 | But I started labour and just had him in the room . |
| 20 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 21 | Blunt hesitated , waiting for a pause , and finally tapped her on the arm . |
| 22 | Carl Glenn , a commission investigator , describing events in El Chorrillo , a poor , primarily Black neighbourhood located near the Panamanian Defense Force headquarters , where 10,000 were made homeless , said : US troops bombed the community , shelled it with heavy artillery , strafed it and finally burned it to the ground . |
| 23 | He suddenly realized that the impact of this too-vivid memory had slowed him down and finally arrested him in the middle of the wet pavement Two girls in a shop-doorway were staring at him and giggling . |
| 24 | And my people , the men and maidservants who came running , he confined as you see , each in a glass bottle , and finally closed me into the glass coffin in which you found me . |
| 25 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 26 | He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it did add to royal pressure upon the archbishop and further reminded him of the realities of royal power : in 1285 he petitioned for the relaxation of the statute , especially in respect of grants to parish churches , but Edward reserved his right to licence — to confer or withhold favour . |
| 28 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 29 | He lightly scored his finger on the edge of the spur , gasped and quickly dipped it in the bowl of water on the lavarium before bathing it in a little wine . |
| 30 | She drew back , pressing herself into the upholstered chair , and surreptitiously studied him in the gilt mirror opposite . |