Example sentences of "and [verb] [pos pn] [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 | Perhaps the manager , who is still registered as a player , should get out there and show his side the way . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
10 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | Why do you have go and tell your mum the truth for ! |
14 | You spoke to no one and tell your sister the same . ’ |
15 | er go and get his haircut the cost of everything . |
16 | ‘ I love being spied on by the enemy , ’ I mutter , and turn my face the other way . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | She was a Baptist Sunday-school teacher , and gave her son the name ‘ Carey ’ after a leading Baptist preacher in Leicester . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Botha equalised from 45 metres and gave his side the lead on 20 minutes with an identically tricky penalty . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | They spent that evening at the Cistercian monastery of Melrose and continued their journey the following morning . |
26 | Advance and take your prize The diamond ; but he answer 'd , ‘ Diamond me No diamonds ! |
27 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
28 | From that day the plague began to abate , and to show its gratitude the city decided to build a new church . |
29 | In our September issue , last year , we invited Gardener readers to get out their cameras and enter our special The Gardener /Kodak Shades of autumn Photo Competition . |
30 | Sir Thomas smiled patronisingly and held her arm the more tightly . |