Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one she invited Franck to sit in and her own are side by side against the wall of the house — backs against this wall , of course — beneath the office window . |
| 2 | Trying to awaken my slumbering festive spirit , I invited John to come in and open his present . |
| 3 | With a gallant wave of one hand he invited Melissa to sit down and with the other placed a small pile of well-thumbed paperbacks on a table in front of her . |
| 4 | Bernard paints a picture of a pope harassed by worldly affairs and commends the example of Pope Gregory the Great , who , while the city was besieged by the barbarians , found time to sit down and write a commentary on Ezekiel . |
| 5 | Apart from what sounds like a fairly hectic studio schedule , I wondered if Clem found time to get out and play live . |
| 6 | He told Newman to hold on and the Englishman heard him call out in German . |
| 7 | Because we were standing outside the Japanese restaurant , I told Chase to go in and order some take-aways for about two o'clock while Martin and I would scout either end of the Place for Bunny 's truck . |
| 8 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 9 | Eventually Richards told Killion to shut up and then found himself obliged to say something else in his place . |
| 10 | Schellenberg told Rossman to go in and walked along the corridor . |
| 11 | Mary told Adam to turn round and face her , she would do his chest . |
| 12 | It encouraged Baldersdale to look up and beyond its natural boundaries . |
| 13 | He begged Miriam to hurry back and find out how the old man was faring under his own treatment . |
| 14 | It just breaks my heart , honey , to think of your poor , dear cousin in such pain , ’ the other woman murmured sympathetically , her eyes glistening with tears as she begged Laura to sit down and make herself comfortable . |
| 15 | Back at the Agra Hotel we ordered coffee to warm up and started a game of Scrabble . |
| 16 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 17 | So , as he concluded he asked Hannah to stand up and just say ‘ hello ’ — that 's all . |
| 18 | Cos although it was an amicable split , I still needed time to settle down and get used to the fact that I was on my own again . |
| 19 | ‘ It took ages to come out and we had no control over the artwork . |
| 20 | But at the last minute the Town board played their cards … and persuaded Gorman to stay on and take over |
| 21 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 22 | Oh , yes , yes , but there there was certainly a time when , er universities , schools and even business companies , thought that it was part of their erm , their way of supporting society in general , that they gave time to go out and give talks . |
| 23 | Charles had never been carefree , never been allowed to be childish or make mistakes like his peers , never had friends to call on and pour his heart out to . |
| 24 | Dyson scarcely had time to stride up and down the office that morning , lecturing Bob on the importance of television , but he was in great form all the same . |
| 25 | And it must have been the fever , Isabel decided a long time later , when she at last had time to sit down and rest . |
| 26 | The school was closed on Wednesday as well so people had time to dry out and clear up the mess that the water had made . |
| 27 | I mean , I had Tony to go through and find key words that we knew we were going to need , you know , simple words like the , of , with , a , that sort of thing , that we knew that okay , we would n't use immediately , but we 'd look , ah there that goes there , and use it straight away . |
| 28 | We did some demos and we asked Tony to come along and play keyboards . |
| 29 | When Wendy 's father died of lung cancer , he asked Rhoda to move in and presently got it together to marry her , thus putting a stop to Wendy 's sudden plan to abandon Dev and move back in with Ken . |
| 30 | At that point Banana manager Keith Lambert instructed Luckwell to drop back and help with the chase and it was touch and go as the next group brought the gap down to three minutes on the finishing circuit at Rotherham . |