Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 2 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 3 | And she brought forth her first-born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger ; because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 4 | And she brought forth her first born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger. because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 5 | " And she brought forth her first-born child , and laid him in a manger , because there was no place for them in the inn . " |
| 6 | I contrived to get Martinho beside Goreng 's jeep and laid him against a wheel . |
| 7 | She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair . |
| 8 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 9 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 10 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
| 11 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 12 | He gripped her wrist firmly and led her to a door . |
| 13 | He dumped his kitbag and led her to an armchair , but she clung to him in a state of possessive disbelief which upset Charles even more than the deep depression he 'd been suffering from when he entered the flat . |
| 14 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
| 15 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 16 | She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room . |
| 17 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 18 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 19 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
| 20 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 21 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 22 | The offender drove up behind the victim as she was walking in the street one evening with her daughter , aged two and a half , and attacked her with a hammer , striking her two blows on the leg and one on the knee . |
| 23 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 24 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 25 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 26 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 27 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 28 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 29 | What I did n't mention to him was Gilbert 's phone call where he said she rang him on Saturday evening and asked him about a box . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And how was Mrs Parkin ? ’ asked Dexter , while Blanche took a packet of chocolate digestives from her filing cabinet and arrayed them on a plate . |