Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 2 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 3 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
| 4 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 5 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 6 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
| 7 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 8 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
| 9 | They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia . |
| 10 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 11 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 13 | Lord Hailsham , however , used twentieth century reasoning and applied it to nineteenth century cases . |
| 14 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 15 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 16 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 17 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 18 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 19 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 20 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 21 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 22 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 23 | Two men appeared in front of him , and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side , raising his sword . |
| 24 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 25 | He blinked and regarded me with confused surprise . |
| 26 | A family of brothers , fathers and uncles on the front table took an instant dislike to me and , slamming their pints on the table , sat back with arms crossed and regarded me in stony-faced silence . |
| 27 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 28 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
| 29 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |
| 30 | The Minoans built cisterns or water tanks and lined them with water-resistant plaster . |