Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officers from Lothian and Borders , Grampian , Northern Constabulary and Cambridgeshire met to review the investigation . |
| 2 | We argued earlier that the crime surveys commissioned by Labour Local Authorities in areas such as Islington , Merseyside , and Hammersmith and Fulham attempted to put the findings of the BCS into an inner city context . |
| 3 | Anne and Sarah tried to keep the peace but Miss Meers was a slave driver , and would never allow them to stand still for a moment . |
| 4 | The screeching and thrashing was behind him now as they bundled out into the corridor , and Cardiff turned to slam the door shut . |
| 5 | The hem of a distant Marsquake shivered through the walls of the burrow , and Jezrael had to stuff the back of her hand in her mouth to stifle her laughter as Ember cried out in artistic mock-orgasm . |
| 6 | On Nov. 8 Poland and Germany agreed to de-restrict the use of territorial waters bordering the two countries and to ease restrictions on cross-border road traffic . |
| 7 | Joe was already out of the kitchen and half-way across the yard and Bella began to put the dishes together . |
| 8 | Without an away win since April , Leeds were continually harassed could ill afford to spurn gilt edge changes like that and Watford continued to harass the champions out of their stride in midfield . |
| 9 | The goalkeeper 's punch was indecisive and Wright had to clear the danger . |
| 10 | When Peter Green left , Kirwan and Spencer remained to take the mantle , neither of whom really possessed the ability or motivation to do justice to their new-found roles . |
| 11 | Later in the month the ANC and Mandela continued to question the government 's response to the township violence . |
| 12 | She and David decided to catch the bus down into Florence and then try for a taxi home . |
| 13 | As the opening production was Gypsy Baron , where Ingrid was taking the lead and Therese had to play the role of an eighteen-year-old village maiden , it was n't hard to guess what most of the jokes were about . |
| 14 | Franca and Moxie hastened to move the bed toward the centre of the room . |
| 15 | It was n't that Ice-T never got to meet the highly desirable Coffy , whose destruction of dope dealers took place to the accompaniment of a Roy Ayers score , but rather that he and Hinojosa failed to obtain the rights to a James Brown track from the movie Black Caesar . |
| 16 | Tuppe and Cornelius hastened to collect the luggage . |
| 17 | On March 6 Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania attempted to raise the issue of the delay in the withdrawal of former Soviet troops from their territory [ see p. 38786 ] . |
| 18 | The fact that she and Hugh happened to fit the bill seemed to give her every opportunity for finding out . |
| 19 | No developments were reported on LBC that morning , and Loretta had to switch the radio off when her friends arrived for lunch . |
| 20 | Berri and Jumblatt agreed to attend the meeting after talking with visiting Syrian Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam in early January . |
| 21 | Clare Macmahon and Elaine Duffy from Warwickshire — schoolgirls Clare and Elaine decided to enter the competition because they were bored with their hair and eager for a change . |
| 22 | He climbed into the bucket and Endill started to turn the handle . |
| 23 | Bullock and Cockroft served to indicate the direction that progress might take . |
| 24 | This is parallel to the gradient of acceptability which emerged from Harris 's results , and Labov attempted to accommodate the tendency of speakers to avoid making absolute judgements by asking them to assign to each sentence a score on a four-point scale , as follows : |
| 25 | But I did n't look , I did n't stop , it was raining so bad Thursday morning and windy that I I went to the market , I cut straight through and went up and Di went to get the paper then he went . |
| 26 | One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town , and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body . |
| 27 | Outside Sigarup and Kalchu started to unpack the lukals , slitting open the stitching at the top with a knife and tipping out the maize to dry in the sun before they stored it away in wooden chests and cylindrical clay grain vats . |
| 28 | He 's abducted me six times and Nero had to send the lads to rescue me . |
| 29 | The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back . |
| 30 | The sun shone the next day , and Emyr arrived to connect the water pipes . |