Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 2 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
| 3 | She came down to him and made him a hot drink and felt his forehead which was burning hot and covered in drops of sweat . |
| 4 | Is it my fault if the King has spoilt his son and made him a laughing stock in Europe ? |
| 5 | Charles I was equally well disposed towards Salisbury and made him a privy councillor in 1626 . |
| 6 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 7 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 8 | While nineteenth-century Catholic teaching had been suspicious of ‘ human rights ’ discourse , John embraced it eagerly and made it a central theme , greatly extending the range and number of ‘ rights ’ , including those of minorities ( 95–7 ) and refugees ( 103–8 ) . |
| 9 | The taxi driver leaned through his window at one point and passed me a small scrap of paper . |
| 10 | Others said that their driving was risky because friends and , to a lesser extent , the public , police and insurance companies labelled him as ‘ high risk ’ and charged him a high premium , he might as well get his money 's worth . |
| 11 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 12 | The drummer lashed out at Tom and caught him a glancing blow on the jaw and Tom had to be held back by Ollie to prevent him retaliating . |
| 13 | Grimma took another step forward and caught it a backward thump across the muzzle . |
| 14 | Health physics monitor Steven Crozier , a fitness enthusiast who was one of the group who visited Peel Park to collect the 1993 award , tried out the new multi-gym and pronounced it a real asset ( below ) . |
| 15 | Unlike Hitler , however , the Americans were anxious for Franco 's consent and found him a reasonable interlocutor . |
| 16 | ‘ We obedience-trained him and found him a new home . |
| 17 | The head waiter , enchanted to see Ricky after three years ' absence , kissed him on both cheeks , enquired after his elbow , and found him a quiet corner . |
| 18 | I found my way to a temperance hotel advertised in the guide-book and found it a homely house . |
| 19 | The Sinn Fein man claimed two plain-clothes men approached Mr Fox in Thomas Street , Dungannon on September 2 and promised him a new house if he agreed to work for them . |
| 20 | I patted Armstrong 's stubbly radiator and promised him a good clean-out . |
| 21 | Then Sir Alfred pulled in in his Bentley and promised me a free hand to design a car that worked . |
| 22 | Nissen took a personal interest in Constanze 's crusade on behalf of Mozart 's music , and helped her a great deal . |
| 23 | The waiter brought two tall glasses and filled them a good way up with Courvoisier . |
| 24 | The widow claimed to be particular about who she let to and told her a great deal about the other lodgers ; a musician and a German student , both women , and one man , a writer . |
| 25 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 26 | Nick , who had feared a torridly emotional hour or so was relieved by this ; grateful , he had shared half a bottle of brandy with Martin and told him a great deal about the behaviour of adolescents in certain African tribes , a safe subject , and one he was apt to enlarge on when drunk . |
| 27 | Drinking half her cup she put it down , twisted round to face him , her chin resting in her hand , and told him a strange story . |
| 28 | Frequent travel made his leg swell up , and caused him a considerable amount of discomfort . |
| 29 | Mechanics pushed our aircraft into a hangar and machined us a new stud for our exhaust pipe . |
| 30 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |