Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes , he got out and wandered over : ‘ Here , son , give me a shot at that , ’ he said , and I passed him the rod . |
| 2 | ‘ And I spotted it the moment we drove off from my flat , ’ Newman rapped back . |
| 3 | And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And I told him the mud in the high street was an absolute disgrace . |
| 5 | Check all the spellings , and I told you the horror story about the gentleman whose name was wrongly spelt . |
| 6 | and I showed him the escape hatch in the cockpit , " open this hatch and get out and get as far away from the aircraft as you can " . |
| 7 | I told her I 'd be in the Maple Leaf in Covent Garden until about nine , then down in Fulham and I gave her the address of the party and told her to ask for Louise . |
| 8 | When Victor and I gave them the slip at Victoria station they knew we were onto them . |
| 9 | Mrs Scamp levered them on to her face and I handed her the Access card . |
| 10 | The lady looked modest , but said nothing , and I handed her the bag . |
| 11 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |
| 12 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 13 | And she bought me the glass bowl . |
| 14 | Carol Eastman , meanwhile , had written her screenplay on the inspiration of a Jack London story , which was similar moody vein to Ride the Whirlwind and she called hers The Shooting . |
| 15 | A small boy gave her his wooden sword and she brandished it the way he had shown her . |
| 16 | And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing . |
| 17 | And we called it the bull because it did n't cry , it sort of bellowed . |
| 18 | Oh yes , it was at the Strathmore Arms at Hury , and we called it the Show Room , and sometimes the Hut . |
| 19 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 20 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 21 | They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract . |
| 22 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 23 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 24 | And they called it the number one . |
| 25 | ‘ And they gave me the job . ’ |
| 26 | He did , however , acknowledge that it would be neither responsible nor sensible to ignore the existence of the Action Committee , and he offered them the opportunity of a meeting with representatives of the council . |
| 27 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 28 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 29 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 30 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |