Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hours later , with most of us starving , the head waiter knocked on the door , threw Robson the keys and asked us to lock up the restaurant when we 'd finished . ’ |
| 2 | He balled it , and used it to wipe up the mess . |
| 3 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 4 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 5 | He looked suddenly suspicious that I was making fun of him , which I was n't , and grabbed me to look down the front of my dress . |
| 6 | ‘ And needed someone to carry on the family name and the title , to stop any distant relative from — ’ |
| 7 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 8 | The registers give the impression — in itself plausible — that Henry VII told his Council what he wanted and left it to work out the details . |
| 9 | We used to run direct to Kirkwall via and erm it was then that the post office caught hold of us and wanted us to take on the mails . |