Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sticking her head out of the door , she summoned a nurse and got her to take the young man 's parents back to the interview-room and give them a cup of tea . |
| 2 | He pushed one of the doors open and invited her to enter the pretty pink and white room . |
| 3 | They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document . |
| 4 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 5 | She looked through the drawers of his desk and found nothing to indicate the financial problems her cousin had spoken of . |
| 6 | She was using condoms and advised me to do the same . |
| 7 | His hair was still quite closely cropped , and his beard now followed the lines of his jaw and allowed her to see the hard fierce lines of his face . |
| 8 | In spite of Paxford 's strong left-wing views , Minto idolized him and allowed him to occupy the same sort of position in her household as John Brown had occupied at the court of Queen Victoria . |
| 9 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 10 | The music was muted and distant , and did nothing to allay the sleepy , dawn feeling of the area . |
| 11 | When under Nicholas the governor of each province was instructed to draw up an annual report , the information supplied was hopelessly vague and did nothing to identify the major weaknesses and problems of the administration . |
| 12 | Then a stitch stabbed my ribs and forced me to walk the next few yards . |
| 13 | It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit . |
| 14 | Because of that , I have merely pointed out incontrovertible facts , and left them to draw the inevitable conclusions . ’ |
| 15 | Never fully attuned to the intricate histories of football , the New York team sided a former Argentinian international , and instructed him to mark the mercurial Johnson out of the game . |