Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 2 | When Gibson and I left the office , Guy turned on me and bluntly told me the fate that would overtake me were I to steal one of his crews . |
| 3 | His father , foreman of the Headington Quarry morris ‘ side ’ for fifteen years , played him the morris tunes in the cradle , and later taught him the dances . |
| 4 | Nicklaus took note of Cathy 's instruction , and later gave her the credit when he found himself back to his old form in that week 's skins ' game . |
| 5 | Sir James set John Wordsworth up in the largest house in the High Street of Cockermouth , and later gave him the office of Coroner of Millom . |
| 6 | In line with the Group of Eight 's decision in December 1988 to offer fair treatment to Latin American debtors , Brazil in January 1990 proposed that debtor countries with payments imbalances or shortages of hard currency ( such as Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) should convert their debt into local currency to pay for Brazilian imports and to finance cross-border ventures , and also offered them the possibility of buying back debt at a discount . |
| 7 | As Granpa Charlie and I always had an apple for breakfast , the arrangement sorted out our own needs and also gave me the chance to sample what we were selling to the customers . |
| 8 | This lack of the courtier 's innate instinct for self-preservation — a characteristic he shared with his father — did not endear him to the aristocracy , and probably lost him the appointments he needed . |
| 9 | MGM were prepared to make the film as a star vehicle for him and originally offered him the role of Captain Bligh . |
| 10 | Taking a patronizing look at the newcomers , all aged only between seventeen and twenty and dressed in little check practice outfits , they decided that they looked childish and immediately nicknamed them the Tiller Babes . |
| 11 | You rewrote the letter after the original had been burned , had your version photocopied and then sent me the copy . |
| 12 | Tremayne listened a bit and talked a bit and then gave me the receiver again . |
| 13 | He lost his seat in the election of 1955 , and then completed his The Future of Socialism , which I read at Windsor . |
| 14 | He muttered a number of unrepeatable oaths , most of which cast doubt upon my family history , and grudgingly handed me the money . |
| 15 | She feels that the experience of being a childminder helped her to get the job and certainly gave her the confidence to apply in the first place . |
| 16 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |