Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 2 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 3 | This position put its schools in the forefront and made it the leading school of Europe from the 1140s , until Paris began to take the lead in theology and philosophy ( but never in law ) in the 1180s . |
| 4 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 5 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 6 | Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents . |
| 7 | Then Tess went up to her mother , put her head on Joan 's shoulder , and told her the whole story . |
| 8 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 9 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 10 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 11 | As he finished he smiled and handed me the empty plate . |
| 12 | ‘ Look at this , ’ he said to Cleo , and handed her the delicate instrument , which was a web of vanes and strings . |
| 13 | Doyle smiled , almost beautifully , as though everything had come right , and handed her the small gun . |
| 14 | He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber . |
| 15 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 16 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 17 | And showed you the right path to take , |
| 18 | Mr Rochester lifted the curtain , opened the secret door and showed us the little room . |
| 19 | He let the minion struggle and kick for a little while , then hoisted it back out , shook it , and turned it the right way up again . |
| 20 | Apuleius believed she was mother to the gods of the Roman Empire — DIANA , MINERVA , Venus , HECATE , etc. — and awarded her the additional responsibility of ensuring the welfare of sailors through the use of a celestial wooden rudder which controlled the wind and waves . |
| 21 | A panel of experts decided Kate 's winning menu made the best use of French cheese and awarded her the top prize a Concorde flight to Paris for a supersonic celebration . |
| 22 | The Americans went nuts over it and awarded it the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film . |
| 23 | He was a long distance lorry driver but he knew how to dress and taught me the golden rule ‘ Do n't mix your stripes ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Somebody who lives nearby , came in and examined it the other day , and that 's all I know . |
| 25 | Reaching the end of the line , he danced over to where Mait sat in the sedan chair , and offered him the strange object . |
| 26 | He hesitated before her a moment , and then he took her hands and bent his head , and gave her the solemn kiss of kinship ; and before she could draw breath and touch her astonished fingers to her lips , he was out of the paddock and away across the clearing into the trees . |
| 27 | He cleared the summerhouse so she would have a studio , and gave her the only key . |
| 28 | Bedelia was busy roasting dandelion roots , I thanked her for having us and gave her the royal wave . |
| 29 | Morton crossed to the cupboard and gave her the brown-paper parcel . |
| 30 | A waiter smiled and ushered me to a corner table marked with a reserved sign that said ‘ Intourist only ’ , and gave me the English-language menu . |