Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary got up , took Paula by the arm and led her over to the low sofa . |
| 2 | Her heart touched on the instant by her friend 's distress , she put an arm through hers and led her back to the palace . |
| 3 | Jack finally got her and led her back to the seat , where she folded her anorak carefully , eyes still glued to the screen . |
| 4 | He bowed , kissed her hand , and led her down to the courtyard where their carriage waited . |
| 5 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 6 | She took hold of his hand and led him over to the small bed . |
| 7 | McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box . |
| 8 | Two policemen forcibly took her arms from around her son , and led him out to the car to join his sister . |
| 9 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 10 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 11 | ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls . |
| 12 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 13 | The spokesman for United Engineering Steels said Irish firm Malone Parkinson Project Design had bought the furnaces and associated equipment and sold it on to the Chinese . |
| 14 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 15 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 16 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 17 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 18 | A long clearance from one the Leeds defenders found it 's way into the Crewe half where upon rolling out into touch the linesman controlled it neatly with his left and passed it back to the returning Crewe player with a neat right foot pass . |
| 19 | Tuppe screwed it up and flung it on to the carpet . |
| 20 | The King 's Fund found that good projects involved families in the planning of services and built them in to the system in such a way that they felt their important role was appreciated . |
| 21 | The conference decided the problems of ‘ functionally complex ’ compounds needed further study and referred it back to the commission . |
| 22 | Having heard the account of her recapture and the sadistic reprisal inflicted on Pam , they were doubly eager to have another go at the sect heavies , and had recruited a further six of their own mates and invited them along to the party . |
| 23 | He glanced involuntarily at Jennifer Morgan who said she would make tea , which was what her mother preferred , and bore her off to the kitchen . |
| 24 | Charles was grumbling as Damian supported his weak body and helped him out to the car . |
| 25 | She swayed slightly and Stephen took her arm and helped her back to the coach . |
| 26 | He asked if I was in trouble and drove me back to the car park , where he produced a tow-rope . |
| 27 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 28 | ‘ Be thankful I 'm not a Gunner : I 'd 've brought my theodolite along and surveyed us down to the inch every five minutes . ’ |
| 29 | He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth . |
| 30 | He pulled the brassiere from her body and dropped it on to the floor . |