Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phoned Annie and asked her to cancel both performances today , and those on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 2 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 4 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 5 | Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . |
| 6 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 7 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |
| 8 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 9 | I was confused by all these solicitous questions , and found myself telling more lies than I had to . |
| 10 | The court appointed Robert Ramsay , a Western Australian accountant , as trustee , and directed him to recover any assets of the Bond estate . |
| 11 | He rang the hospital and told them to stop that man sending letters . |
| 12 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 13 | God has n't given Paul an injection of energy and told him to face all kinds of circumstances . |
| 14 | Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her . |
| 15 | She has woven her spell and allowed me to see another world , another life , a life of the spirit . |
| 16 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 17 | These structures gave them strength and enabled them to stand several centimetres tall . |
| 18 | I sat there and thought what did this woman abolish ? |
| 19 | And did youse get any sort of erm protective clothing or anything that we got when I started in the yards ? |
| 20 | First of all I think we have worked out the importance of establishing a very good relationship with the media and that 's developing and that means that , that the views of the trade union movement are beginning to be heard , er , when we , when we spoke to the editor of the local paper for example , we pointed out that on the business page there 's nothing about trade unions and did he think that business er existed without er on , just on one side . |
| 21 | And did he have any men working for him or did he work on his own ? |
| 22 | And did it make any difference , theologically speaking , whether he knew or not ? |
| 23 | And did you have any breaks for for lunch or anything ? |
| 24 | And did you get any masks for the fumes ? |
| 25 | And higher still we ascended , by thinking inwardly and speaking and marvelling at your works , and we came to our minds and transcended them to reach that region of unfailing abundance where you feed Israel forever on the food of truth . |
| 26 | He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him . |
| 27 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 28 | So she took the handbag back into Tesco and said I found this handbag erm and they said well give me your name and address and all that so in any rate what happened Bet ? |
| 29 | Several hours later he drove her half a mile to a car park in Whitehorse Lane , South Norwood , near Sainsbury 's supermarket , and forced her to take some money from a cash point machine . |