Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Two policemen forcibly took her arms from around her son , and led him out to the car to join his sister . |
| 32 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 33 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 34 | He then gave the order to move off and led us out of the abbey gate . |
| 35 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 36 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 37 | ‘ 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 . |
| 38 | She took off her jacket and slung it down on the settee . |
| 39 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 42 | 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 . ’ |
| 43 | 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 . ’ |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 47 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 48 | It was like toys : when you brought them home from the shop and got them out of the box they were never quite the same . |
| 49 | Tuppe screwed it up and flung it on to the carpet . |
| 50 | In 1912 Walter Long accepted the phrase " the new style " and flung it back at the government : " The New Style consists in the cynical violation of the honourable traditions of public life . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The conference decided the problems of ‘ functionally complex ’ compounds needed further study and referred it back to the commission . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 55 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | He caught her arm and drew her back under the cypresses . |
| 58 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 59 | Strong hands turned him round and helped him out into the street again . |
| 60 | Strong hands turned Soapy round and helped him out into the street again . |