Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 2 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 3 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 4 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 5 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 6 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 7 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 8 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 9 | He took a calculator from his wallet , added up the marks and divided them by 8 . |
| 10 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 11 | They then measured the distance between Hartwell and Roade Station and divided it into three equal parts . |
| 12 | In 678 Ecgfrith , urged on by his second wife Iurminburg , expelled Wilfrid from his see and divided it in two , with a new bishop in Hexham as well as York . |
| 13 | The Goths , however , objected to this national treasure being handed over , and redeemed it for 200,000 solidi . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They tracked down Doisneau and met him in 1990 . |
| 17 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 18 | She took her hip flask from her coveralls and emptied it in one long gulp . |
| 19 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |
| 20 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 21 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 22 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 23 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 24 | Simpson called it quantum evolution and described it as one of three evolutionary modes . |
| 25 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 26 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 27 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 28 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |
| 29 | He clasped the royal hand and plastered it with three lingering kisses . |
| 30 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |