Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little maid whom Elisa had seen earlier standing by the door in the sitting room came into the dining room on both occasions and whispered something into his ear . |
| 2 | Then he leaned forward and whispered something into his left ear . |
| 3 | I watched as he sat next to him , and whispered something into his ear , the small man cringed slightly and looked as the middle aged woman had done at the tattered ‘ Summer Sun ’ adverts . |
| 4 | She disappeared , then reappeared behind the counter and whispered something to the girl who was on duty there . |
| 5 | The proprietor took over , and was still serving the portions when one of the waitresses came in and whispered something to Delaney . |
| 6 | Cousin Jane looked across at her and smiled and whispered something to Mike . |
| 7 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 8 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 9 | Love voted for exclusion and concerned himself with related topics . |
| 10 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 11 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 12 | She took all the bones out of his spinal column and compressed them to nothing , she turned his eyeballs inward , she jellied his legs , she unplugged and rewired his guts . |
| 13 | Instead , I just lit up a straight fag and shared it with her , Bogart style . |
| 14 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 15 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 16 | ‘ Suddenly the guy pulled a knife on the bouncer and stabbed him to death-right in front of my eyes . ’ |
| 17 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 18 | It had been alleged that after hiring Mr Mullan 's taxi for a journey from Gourock to Greenock , he produced a hunting knife and stabbed him on the chest . |
| 19 | The prosecution claims that Westmore James got into a row with the cousin , and stabbed him in the neck on the steps of a social security office . |
| 20 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 21 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 22 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 23 | Yussuf caught hold of her and propelled her towards the gate . |
| 24 | Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study . |
| 25 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 26 | Then his strength grew , marshalled and propelled itself by means of legs and arms and shortly his pace quickened , he was moving upwards once more . |
| 27 | When Galvone leapt aboard and seated himself beside his chief Hauser made his unsettling comment before they started up the rotors . |
| 28 | ‘ Piano , Aaron , piano ! ’ she called , and her middle stepson , with his mobile thin white clown 's face , emerged from the crowd and seated himself at the instrument , as Liz called to Deirdre and the butlers to fill glasses and then join the guests for a toast : Jonathan turned on the radio , the eagle-crowned clock over the marble mantelshelf struck , some joined hands and some did not , Aaron struck up Auld Lang Syne , Big Ben struck , some sang and some did not , voices rose straggling , pure and impure , strong and weak , tuneful and tuneless , there were cries and embraces . |
| 29 | He laid the picture down and seated himself before the table . |
| 30 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |