Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They really dragged just watching telly , and everyone wanted to watch the soap operas and sit coms . |
| 2 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 3 | And then , only six hours later , the pains returned and I had to repeat the dose . |
| 4 | By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ . |
| 5 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 6 | And I was cooking fish and chips when the siren went , and I had to turn the gas off and now they 're ruined , and I do n't know what else we 're going to have for supper … |
| 7 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 8 | What a mess there was to clean up , and I had to hit the cooking pot with my chopper to get Tony 's head out . |
| 9 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 10 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 11 | You — ’ His voice disappeared , and I had to put the phone away from my ear again as he started to hammer the handset against the walls of the call-box . |
| 12 | Well , and then I went on to Rome to look at a Goldoni production and I had to see the Pope , but I tell you — I hope you 're not Catholic — the sight of the old pullet being cheered up the aisle of St. Peter 's … |
| 13 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 14 | The river immediately floated my free legs away as if it would have them , and I had to grab the wire fiercely to avoid going with the current . |
| 15 | And er he called me in , I had the cane for that and I had to tell the mess boy . |
| 16 | Once , when she was ill and I had to show the doctor in to see her , he was rather disconcerted to see the bedclothes on either side of Mrs Field appear to rise of their own accord — and four dogs emerged ! |
| 17 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 18 | Alas , my mother died , and I had to mastermind the discovery of an old folkery for my father . |
| 19 | The matron of Sick Bay , a formidable lady by the name of Mrs de Courcey-Meade , painted my wound ( unwashed ) with gentian violet , and I had to suffer the embarrassment of meeting my colleagues with a tattered and fluorescent leg . |
| 20 | It was near low water now , and I had to get the dinghy afloat . |
| 21 | It was by now after two , and I had to get the album to the crematorium by five . |
| 22 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |
| 23 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd also recorded Neil Kinnock 's speech after his count and I managed to freeze the frame on the exact moment when she almost cried as he paid tribute to his wife for her dignity under the onslaught of the tabloid press . |
| 25 | However , I saw land some hours later , and I managed to sail the boat to it . |
| 26 | Yeah I was alright but I was very shaking and , and everything and I managed to get the car down and and there was n't that many cars |
| 27 | They made no effort to withdraw , or temper their gaze or remarks , and I struggled to maintain the sort of meditational dispassion which I 'd observed in my cat on its box . |
| 28 | The conversation faded into the distance and I paused to refill the Unwins ' cups , where the talk was about Upper Gumtree having the edge over Mercer 's premiere that was coming to Winnipeg by road . |
| 29 | on Tuesday morning , and I went to see the secretary on . |
| 30 | ‘ I was living in a council flat with two young children and I went to see the housing boss , which was him , to ask for a bigger place . |