Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An estimated 3,000 delegates from one faction claiming to represent the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) gathered in Nairobi on Sept. 4 and unanimously elected Jaramogi Oginga Odinga as FORD chairman and designated him the party 's presidential candidate . |
| 2 | You 're an idiot if you submit an article or a piece of any kind to a magazine , to a newspaper , without actually having looked at it , and studied it , and asked yourselves the question , ‘ What sort of house style is it ? |
| 3 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 4 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 5 | Kenneth adores him and commandeered him the moment he arrived , allowing me to join them on a walk after yet another edible meal ( any more of this clever cooking and you 'll ruin your reputation ) . |
| 6 | I felt very proud of her and read her the letter . |
| 7 | I called on the editor and sold him the idea that I should write the feature on my province ‘ Saskatchewan ’ , which I did , thus earning $30. towards the expenses of my Vancouver holiday . |
| 8 | In Pitham & Hehl ( 1976 ) 65 Cr App R 45 , a person took the two defendants to his friend 's house and sold them the furniture of his friend who was in prison . |
| 9 | Later , when other countries wanted to make their own cloth from jute , the workers of Dundee made and sold them the textile machinery . |
| 10 | He complained once about Kavanagh 's poems being read on Irish radio in a vulgar Monaghan accent ; he saw his brother as a poetic giant among Dublin 's envious literary pygmies who filled the helpless bard with whiskey and made him the instrument of their Communist-homosexual conspiracies . |
| 11 | But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault . |
| 12 | He claimed that there had been a bona-fide revival of Gothic architecture during the reign of Queen Victoria , that there was with those who loved architecture and made it the subject of special study , |
| 13 | Behaviouralists drew a sharp distinction between normative and scientific statements , and made it the hallmark of science to avoid the normative . |
| 14 | A brief encounter with the new range last week convinced me the changes have rejuvenated the car and made it the equal of anything from Munich or Stuttgart . |
| 15 | Every time he lifted the cap of his luminous watch the hands seemed to have barely moved , but now he hauled Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott into the canoe and passed him the flask of coffee . |
| 16 | ‘ I know , ’ she said superciliously , and passed him the glass . |
| 17 | And passed me the shovel . |
| 18 | FOOTBALL fan Andy Meek went to watch his team York City in action yesterday — and found himself the match sponsor . |
| 19 | Tonight Lorenzo gave me the doge 's ring , and told me the history of this lovely old house . |
| 20 | I was just as confused as that day she came in and told me the news . |
| 21 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 22 | That afternoon in free time the sergeant stopped her , and told her the work had n't been done properly . |
| 23 | A passing student doctor clipped and tied the umbilical cord for her , and told her the baby was a girl and just fine . |
| 24 | Preston was astonished at himself for letting it happen , but when he 'd first suggested wearing a condom Emily had said , ‘ You do n't have to , ’ and told him the story about her abortion , and he 'd felt too sorry for her , and too embarrassed , to insist on doing so for health reasons . |
| 25 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 26 | After she contacted her boyfriend and told him the news , they immediately headed back to Leeds . |
| 27 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 28 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 29 | They chose this area because it reminded them of the Alps and afforded them the chance to continue with their much loved skiing . |
| 30 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |