Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hours later , with most of us starving , the head waiter knocked on the door , threw Robson the keys and asked us to lock up the restaurant when we 'd finished . ’ |
| 2 | He balled it , and used it to wipe up the mess . |
| 3 | In order to overcome the difficulty of the ENP not being able to prescribe tetanus immunisation , a protocol was written and approved which set out the circumstances under which a named ENP could administer a dose prescribed by the consultant . |
| 4 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 5 | Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field . |
| 6 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 7 | He looked suddenly suspicious that I was making fun of him , which I was n't , and grabbed me to look down the front of my dress . |
| 8 | ‘ And needed someone to carry on the family name and the title , to stop any distant relative from — ’ |
| 9 | The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back and demanded I pay off the overdraft at once . |
| 10 | He turned quickly and saw it coming up the slope behind him . |
| 11 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 12 | Phil disappeared for twenty-four hours and had me ringing up the local police station . |
| 13 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 14 | The registers give the impression — in itself plausible — that Henry VII told his Council what he wanted and left it to work out the details . |
| 15 | Both measured around 6 x 8ft , and stood one propping up the other . |
| 16 | We used to run direct to Kirkwall via and erm it was then that the post office caught hold of us and wanted us to take on the mails . |
| 17 | Because he did n't think his player was coming over , Orville Moody 's caddie had taken Tom Weiskopf 's bag , but when he suddenly heard Orville was flying over , he ditched Tom and suggested I take over the bag . |
| 18 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |