Example sentences of "and [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 2 | Later that evening Heathcliff 's servant Joseph arrived and asked to speak to the master . |
| 3 | On returning to the ward somewhat shaken myself I made the patient as comfortable as I could and asked to speak to the ward sister , who was fortunately very experienced and prepared to believe what I told her . |
| 4 | As befits the objects of homosexual desire at that time , this new generation of teenybop pop stars were ‘ boy slaves ’ — more Limply Leslie than Rape Hunger — and failed to emerge from the pin-up process with their masculinity intact . |
| 5 | When The Elder Statesman received less than adulatory notices , and failed to succeed at the box office , he was noticeably calm in his reaction . |
| 6 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 7 | As a food and store safety officer , I felt dismayed and frustrated to see in the Journal , members of staff wearing inappropriate jewellery and , in high risk areas , all hair not kept within hats . |
| 8 | Recruits were forced to march along dusty tracks on their knees , packs on their backs , caps held above their heads ; they were woken and made to hop on the spot , half-naked and loaded down with sandbags , for two to three hours . |
| 9 | But what sort of a man was it who could be kidnapped , bundled into a cart and made to lie on the floor under a rug with a gun at his head while being driven halfway across the city on a cold November afternoon — and then just calmly and quietly fall fast asleep ? |
| 10 | We were ordered into the service area off the kitchen and made to sit on the floor . |
| 11 | She neither sobbed nor wept aloud as Dr Neil sighed , closed Effie 's eyes , pulled up the sheet , and rose to walk to the window , to look out of it , at nothing , McAllister suspected . |
| 12 | Only when his struggling became more violent did she fall from him , and then with frantic hands he untangled himself from her and rose to crouch against the wall , his eyes closed , his breath rasping in his throat . |
| 13 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 14 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 15 | Suppliers selected for trial should be notified and invited to participate in the planning organisation . |
| 16 | She later married an Ulsterman and moved to live in the province . |
| 17 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 18 | She shook herself back into life and moved to step into the loft . |
| 19 | She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds . |
| 20 | She spotted a telephone kiosk , and stopped to look in the telephone directory . |
| 21 | Bourassa 's view of the package was overwhelmingly endorsed by a special 4,000-member Liberal Party convention in Quebec on Aug. 29-30 , at which the provincial Premier gave a powerful performance and promised to win over the population of Quebec at the October referendum . |
| 22 | ‘ I must leave at once ! ’ she whispered , and tried to move to the door . |
| 23 | He bent to the carabineer at his waist , and tried to chew at the knot , to make it more supple . |
| 24 | The goat stopped abruptly and tried to chew at the hem of Mrs Hollidaye 's brown jacket . |
| 25 | When she hastily drew away and tried to wriggle off the bed he caught her wrist and pulled her back . |
| 26 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 27 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 28 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 29 | She closed her door quietly , regretting not leaving the Polo on the road , and tried to sneak through the back way to her room . |
| 30 | In panic she stumbled backwards , twisted round and tried to run into the living room . |