Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suddenly the guy pulled a knife on the bouncer and stabbed him to death-right in front of my eyes . ’ |
| 2 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 3 | I tipped about half of the cash into the box and then took a couple of shirts from the second bag and laid them on top of the remaining cash . |
| 4 | Martha took out the two tiles and laid them in front of him . |
| 5 | He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate , fumbling in his jacket pocket for something . |
| 6 | It was Marriott who suggested that Stirling should make himself scarce for a while and recommended him to Brigadier Denys Reid . |
| 7 | I use a very old Gibson pickup and wired it with hardcore , heavy duty cable on a guitar built by a guy out in San Francisco called Gary Brower . |
| 8 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 9 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 10 | One of the sentries took their horses and led them across Tower Green , now ankle-deep in icy slush , to where a depressed-looking Colebrooke was waiting . |
| 11 | Perhaps even more than in the case of energising Anglican evangelical clergymen like William Marsh , in the ranks of evangelical nonconformity the powerful leadership of some ministers shaped the attitudes of chapel communities and led them into collaboration across denominational and church/chapel lines . |
| 12 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 13 | Bobby bought it yesterday and lent it to dad cos we bought we bought ourself , well Rob , dad did , I do n't look at them erm they 're too violent for me but dad bought it in Superkey only five ninety nine . |
| 14 | Tommy gave straight answers and expected them in return . |
| 15 | Good ! ’ said Breeze , and attacked hers without delay . |
| 16 | She was accosted by a make-up girl who fluffed about with powder and asked her about eye make-up . |
| 17 | I phoned Shirley , a friend I 'd made who ran a travel agency , and asked her to book me on the mid-day Concorde . |
| 18 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 19 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 20 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
| 21 | He was on Muizenburg Beach , then a popular resort , when a stranger came he up and asked him in Afrikaans ‘ Is your name Cranko ? ’ |
| 22 | He needed this knowledge on the day a deaf house-painter called to decorate his house , and asked him in sign language which school he went to ( a conversational gambit which remains unchanged to this day . ) |
| 23 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 24 | Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union . |
| 25 | Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to . |
| 26 | Syl 's mother disapproved of this most bitterly and rebuked me for waste . |
| 27 | The giant , who by now had reached her , was maddened with what he saw and battered her to death with his club . |
| 28 | ‘ He turned to face her , brought her to the floor and battered her to death , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Within this tomb is laid the body of the Christian Emperor Charlemagne , who guided the kingdom of the Franks with distinction and ruled it with success for 47 years . |
| 30 | He returned to politics in the mid-1920s , backed Al Smith in 1928 and succeeded him as Governor of New York . |