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Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1	— One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women .
2	And satisfied that this sacrifice would satisfy the spirits and make his kiln the best one ever , Dai Huang slept peacefully in the fine house beside the kiln .
3	She wrote a family biography , So Laugh a Little ( 1962 ) , and co-wrote her autobiography The Sound of Laughter ( 1979 ) .
4	I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion .
5	But Hutchinson slipped and dislocated his shoulder the night before the match and Cumbria pipped Durham and Cleveland 3–2 .
6	You can come and watch me paint the window frames . ’
7	Perhaps the manager , who is still registered as a player , should get out there and show his side the way .
8	But the more I fished for bream and studied their behaviour the more I began to question the correctness of this theory , for I became aware that sizeable bream are rarely taken near to the margins .
9	Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit .
10	‘ Ca n't I drive myself in and meet you somewhere-in the square ? ’
11	The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required .
12	The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required .
13	She sets out before the sun , driving a team of horses which pull her soft blue chariot up from the depths of the ocean , and shows her brother the way to rise .
14	It was only on glancing again at his watch at three minutes to one and wondering what time the Substitute would turn up that he realized that the Substitute was the reason why .
15	We also had to wait and see what effect the anti-male injection had .
16	Once you are on the course , be positive and give your horse the best chance at each obstacle , by giving him a good approach to each one and plenty of encouragement with the legs ( and voice and whip if need be ) .
17	Why do you have go and tell your mum the truth for !
18	You spoke to no one and tell your sister the same . ’
19	er go and get his haircut the cost of everything .
20	I 'd have given birth to twins and discovered what song the Sirens sang , and vaporized and condensed and fallen as snow all over central Calcutta . ’
21	We have to take account of that article and ask what difference the Bill will make in this respect .
22	‘ I love being spied on by the enemy , ’ I mutter , and turn my face the other way .
23	Should your foot drop to the outside of the opponent 's leading leg , you could try hooking it around his ankle and dragging his foot the way it is pointing .
24	Er that you , you had to have your sleep otherwise you were , you were n't er you , you could n't a attend to your lectures and , and do your work the next day .
25	She was a Baptist Sunday-school teacher , and gave her son the name ‘ Carey ’ after a leading Baptist preacher in Leicester .
26	This production , which updates the play and sets it in the sixties , toured the Continent and gave our company the reputation it now enjoys there .
27	Botha equalised from 45 metres and gave his side the lead on 20 minutes with an identically tricky penalty .
28	Unix Labs , by virtue of its position as Unix mama , wanted to be first , and did its pitch the week before last with X/Open Co Ltd explaining the fast track process and Hewlett-Packard observing .
29	Unix Systems Labs , by virtue of its position as Unix mama , wanted to be first , and did its pitch the week before last with X/Open Co Ltd explaining the fast track process and HP observing .
30	What 's for sure is it will be a Mega Drama , the day I discover my man has been playing around , because I believe in fidelity and learned its importance the hard way .