Example sentences of "and [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 2 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 3 | These people and a host of others provided ideas and helped to put them into effect ; the guiding hand and political boss was Franklin Roosevelt himself . |
| 4 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 5 | ‘ The things I do for that boy , ’ mused Mary , as she jumped off the bike and began to push it up Station Hill . |
| 6 | Bryony took the toast out and began to smear it with tomato chutney . |
| 7 | I was interested in exploring the validity of concepts of system and structure in new directions , and began to apply them to semantics . |
| 8 | 12.40 : Saw Deputy Head re incident and arranged to see him with Class Teacher in his office when I have completed my dinner duty . |
| 9 | Karl Gesner , not frantically worried , but conscious of a slight worm of discontent at the back of his mind , bought Ingrid an indifferent supper and decided to take her to bed . |
| 10 | NASA saw the emptiness above the ground and decided to fill it with sky . |
| 11 | He looked out of the window and saw a Singer Vogue and decided to turn it into furniture . |
| 12 | He looked out of the window and saw a Singer Vogue and decided to turn it into furniture . |
| 13 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 14 | They had enough material for a book and decided to offer it for publication under the title Møn : The Island of Pure Friendship . |
| 15 | Then Aunt Bedelia made some cocoa and managed to draw us into conversation . |
| 16 | Toby Hedworth , defending , said the man never intended the child should die and meant to release her in time . |
| 17 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 18 | She unearthed an ancient bicycle from some forgotten shed corner and proceeded to ride it from cottage to cottage , her sackful of letters stuffed compactly into a basket in the front . |
| 19 | Look how he had talked to Miranda , and offered to take her to rehearsal . |
| 20 | Every morning we were read a verse from the Bible and had to remember it by heart . |
| 21 | I was unperturbed and continued to exercise her without aid of a saddle or protection of a hat . |
| 22 | He had seen the boy once or twice since , and he seemed a nice enough lad — a little backward perhaps , but his mother was ashamed of him , and refused to send him to school , perhaps fearing the other children would tease him . |
| 23 | He had made a fortune out of the slave trade and wanted to spend it on land . |
| 24 | Lydia felt briefly sorry for her and attempted to engage her in conversation , but it was no good . |
| 25 | Queen Elizabeth I , her penchant for black servants and entertainers notwithstanding , took the opportunity to ‘ scapegoat ’ the black communities , and attempted to expel them without compunction when there appeared to be political advantage in doing so for managing her economic difficulties . |
| 26 | During their captivity , in late 1951 , a member of the KGB called Gregory Kuzmitch arrived at their internment camp and attempted to convert them to Communism . |