Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days . |
| 2 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 3 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 4 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
| 5 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 6 | Without speaking , Massingham took the next turning to the left and drove toward– it down a narrow road bordered on each side by a terrace of small houses . |
| 7 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 8 | Vass spread his long fingers over the chair arms and seemed to contemplate them for a moment . |
| 9 | They valued his vigour and inventiveness and came to respect him as a reliable man of business . |
| 10 | Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die . |
| 11 | Three masked men broke into her bungalow , and threatened to beat her with a club . |
| 12 | Mr Dennis said the man put his hand over the girl 's face and mouth and threatened to throw her in a river if she screamed . |
| 13 | She insisted that hospitalization was necessary and threatened to commit him to a private mental hospital unless the university hospital took him as an in-patient . |
| 14 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 15 | We staggered out and began to use it as a battering ram against the locked door . |
| 16 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
| 17 | The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements . |
| 18 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 19 | The ship reached the coastline just after sunrise and began to follow it in a south-easterly direction down to the sea . |
| 20 | Afghans have always killed each other in a small way , and started to do it in a big way only when foreign armies , money and weapons became involved . |
| 21 | She rolled out the pastry and , using a small cutter , cut out seven small tarts and started to place them in a six-sectioned tart tin . |
| 22 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 23 | I hired one and went to try it on a mountain . |
| 24 | Many right-wing back-bench critics of the government ( but supporters of Mrs Thatcher ) could voice their criticism without including her and liked to present her as a political prisoner of Cabinet ‘ Wets ’ . |
| 25 | Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side . |
| 26 | Guido turned and paused to confront her with a smile in the doorway of his bedroom . |
| 27 | Prince Philip had stipulated a maximum of ten years for his period in office , and had extended it by a year to enable Prince Charles , who was serving in the Royal Navy , to take over at an appropriate moment . |
| 28 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 29 | In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry . |
| 30 | the plaintiff had ‘ purchased ’ a car from a person who had no title to it and had sent it to a garage for repair . |