Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gaveston opened a door in the far wall and led them down some steps , dimly lit by torches fixed in iron brackets . |
| 32 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 33 | A man with a great bunch of keys joined us and led us down some steps to a doorway marked ‘ Luftschutzraum ’ . |
| 34 | He pulled the sheets aside and led us down some steps . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 38 | The Goths , however , objected to this national treasure being handed over , and redeemed it for 200,000 solidi . |
| 39 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 40 | Even though they are no substitute for practical experience they can at least familiarise you with current terminology and introduce you to contemporary nursing philosophies . |
| 41 | As my deliberate intention in these lectures is to remind you of theology and introduce you to theological terms , however , let me do so now . |
| 42 | Cosmos will accept individual bookings on a ‘ guaranteed share ’ basis — we charge the basic price and introduce you to another single traveller . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ‘ Be there — or you 'll really get fucked , ’ he hissed , jabbing a manicured index finger at my face and transfixing me with lifeless black eyes . |
| 45 | Its first owners were a noble Florentine family — the Pucci family — who through the generations , owned it , lost it and repossessed it on several occasions . |
| 46 | THE African National Congress leader , Mr Nelson Mandela , has been urged by colleagues to announce his official separation from his volatile wife , Winnie , and to strip her of political office to avoid continued embarrassment to the organisation . |
| 47 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 48 | My first step was really to get to know London by walking and drawing it from all angles . |
| 49 | They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio . |
| 50 | ‘ I want to make shoes and sell them in large quantities and yet I would like them to be different , individual , and to achieve that , I require a designer . ’ |
| 51 | He had originally intended to polish up the wood and sell it for five shillings , but when he was fortunate enough to obtain the gramophone he realised he should repair the machine and install it in the cabinet . |
| 52 | You should bottle that particular speech and sell it to clean-air groups . ’ |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Next , enter nine other matches in a second column on the coupon and bracket them into three trios with a thick , dividing line underneath each set of three selections . |
| 55 | The woman was shocked when QC William Crawford put his hands on her waist and pecked her on both cheeks . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 58 | Sixty of them and put them out and make them into nice little lines and that and see what things you 'd have to multiply together to make twelve or what numbers you 'd multiply together cos it 'd be so many sets of like four sets of three or three sets of four . |
| 59 | Let a rug or painting suggest or inspire the colour scheme ; if you ca n't revamp old curtains ( though beware ! re-making can sometimes be just as expensive as starting afresh ) turn them into cushions ; cut down carpets which no longer fit but are too good to be thrown out , and make them into small rugs . |
| 60 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |