Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
| 62 | By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide . |
| 63 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
| 64 | At a glassed-in box-office an immigration officer , seated high above , examined their passports again and subjected them to the piercing but impersonal stare of his kind . |
| 65 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 66 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 67 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 68 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 69 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 70 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 71 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
| 72 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 73 | She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket . |
| 74 | Absently she twitched a fading tulip from its vase and dropped it into the waste-paper basket . |
| 75 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 76 | The victory , the 18th of Kite 's career , was worth $198,000 and lifted him into the top spot on this year 's US Tour money-winning list with $292,361 . |
| 77 | I snatched my miniature of whisky and lifted it towards the raised glasses at home , before stepping outside to watch those stars to the left of Polaris which would be blinking over Manchester . |
| 78 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
| 79 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 80 | He looked down at Thornton and informed him of the new management attitude . |
| 81 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 82 | Between August 1975 and December 1978 the COS-B satellite observed 2CG342–02 on five occasions and catalogued it as the tenth-strongest γ -ray source . |
| 83 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 84 | A tall muscular Lance-Corporal ( I think ) in a red beret and camouflage suit stepped into the doorway of the coach , gave us all a knowing look , and stepped out and nodded us through the outer gate . |
| 85 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 86 | Kāli refilled her pan with plaster and kneaded it to the right consistency . |
| 87 | He had a torch , and shone it round the little entrance hall . |
| 88 | She seemed inclined to give Harry short shrift , but at his mention of Heather 's name , she relented and showed him into the front room , where a meagre measure of calm and quiet prevailed . |
| 89 | ‘ Well , come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ she said , and showed me into the front room of the house . |
| 90 | She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man . |