Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When she was leaving , John reappeared and he and Sarah accompanied her to the corner of Magdalen Street . |
| 2 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 3 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
| 4 | We had dinner with Jochen and Ingrid and Jochen showed us over the school . |
| 5 | He and Donna used it during the summer , making frequent weekend trips ; Ward himself had written at least two books there . |
| 6 | The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State . |
| 7 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 8 | He wrote a cheque and Josh okayed it with the bank — phoned Hnatiuk , the manager , at home . ’ |
| 9 | My turn came and Lobsang coaxed me to the edge . |
| 10 | Although the inventory establishes that Martin made oboes , bassoons , musettes and piccolos , and Borjon included them among the woodwinds made by Jean and his sons , there are no known surviving examples . |
| 11 | The one-day game in Trinidad was , according to Wisden ‘ described by many as the best one-day international played in the West Indies ’ , and England won it off the final ball . |
| 12 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a tremendous performance and Knight kept them in the game . |
| 14 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 15 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 16 | So sure enough we let the tyres down sufficiently for it to be roadworthy and not to destroy the tyres on the way there , but soft enough just so that it would go down , and we edged it through and Roy got it through the middle and off we went . |
| 17 | And Moonshake lay theirs on the line . |
| 18 | I was already friendly with Tate , and Eddie knew him through the shop , so we soon made a threesome and we kept together for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 19 | Gebrec returned from putting the bus away and Bonard took him by the arm and led him to the terrace . |
| 20 | Mrs Redmond called to see Julia one afternoon as she sometimes did now and Julia told her of the conversation about mourning . |
| 21 | ‘ Come along , my dear , ’ Miss Honey called back , and Matilda followed her up the path . |
| 22 | Leonora turned away blindly , and Penry caught her by the shoulders , forcing her round to face him . |
| 23 | Jerry and Anna stood watching the swaying elephants in complete fascination , and Sam took me by the hand across to the cage of a huge lion . |
| 24 | When Craft and Stravinsky visited him in the autumn of this year , Craft has recorded how he looked " younger and livelier " than he had before , but that he seemed " to think of himself as a hoary ancient with little time left . |
| 25 | He turned abruptly away and Willie followed him up the lane and back on to the main street . |
| 26 | At ten Lily left and Adam escorted her to the door . |
| 27 | Sigarup passed a lukal , and Kalchu slung it over the ram 's back and tied the two sets of stings , one across the chest and the other round the hind legs and under the tail . |
| 28 | It ignored the finger and Kalchu dipped it into the milk again and forcibly opened the mouth . |
| 29 | Anna was crying again and Peg cuddled her into the folds of her own shawl where it was warm . |
| 30 | Mann said it could be done and Denega drove him to the chapel to see ‘ if the small cracks in the facade could be enlarged ’ . |