Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |
| 2 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 3 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 4 | The island is savage , blackened , proudly ruined , as if a god had a colossal tantrum and laid it to magnificent , careless waste . |
| 5 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
| 6 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 7 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 8 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 9 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 10 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 11 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 12 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 13 | He took a calculator from his wallet , added up the marks and divided them by 8 . |
| 14 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 15 | They then measured the distance between Hartwell and Roade Station and divided it into three equal parts . |
| 16 | In 678 Ecgfrith , urged on by his second wife Iurminburg , expelled Wilfrid from his see and divided it in two , with a new bishop in Hexham as well as York . |
| 17 | Gaveston opened a door in the far wall and led them down some steps , dimly lit by torches fixed in iron brackets . |
| 18 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 19 | A man with a great bunch of keys joined us and led us down some steps to a doorway marked ‘ Luftschutzraum ’ . |
| 20 | He pulled the sheets aside and led us down some steps . |
| 21 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 22 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 23 | The Goths , however , objected to this national treasure being handed over , and redeemed it for 200,000 solidi . |
| 24 | But the Labour Party dislikes this prospect , and avoided it in 1967 because of the fear that an elected House might feel entitled to challenge the supremacy of the Commons . |
| 25 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
| 26 | The woman was shocked when QC William Crawford put his hands on her waist and pecked her on both cheeks . |
| 27 | He evidently intended that this should be the royal priest Eadsige , who took over some of Æthelnoth 's duties in 1035 and succeeded him in 1038 . |
| 28 | They tracked down Doisneau and met him in 1990 . |
| 29 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 30 | She took her hip flask from her coveralls and emptied it in one long gulp . |