Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 2 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 3 | He whistled after her and shouted a coarse word , whilst Beatrice looked down at him , unshaven and dishevelled , and asked who the big Sicilian was ( an insult , of course to an Italian ) . |
| 4 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 5 | This position put its schools in the forefront and made it the leading school of Europe from the 1140s , until Paris began to take the lead in theology and philosophy ( but never in law ) in the 1180s . |
| 6 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 7 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 8 | Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents . |
| 9 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 10 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 12 | Then Tess went up to her mother , put her head on Joan 's shoulder , and told her the whole story . |
| 13 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 14 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 15 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 16 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 17 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |
| 18 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 19 | As he finished he smiled and handed me the empty plate . |
| 20 | ‘ Look at this , ’ he said to Cleo , and handed her the delicate instrument , which was a web of vanes and strings . |
| 21 | Doyle smiled , almost beautifully , as though everything had come right , and handed her the small gun . |
| 22 | He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber . |
| 23 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 24 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 25 | ‘ After the match , the chairman came in and showed me the other results and the league placings . |
| 26 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 27 | And showed you the right path to take , |
| 28 | As we were turning to follow his directions , he drew up his cuff and showed us the blue tattooed cross that all Copts have on the inside of their wrists . |
| 29 | Mr Rochester lifted the curtain , opened the secret door and showed us the little room . |
| 30 | He let the minion struggle and kick for a little while , then hoisted it back out , shook it , and turned it the right way up again . |