Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An estimated 3,000 delegates from one faction claiming to represent the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) gathered in Nairobi on Sept. 4 and unanimously elected Jaramogi Oginga Odinga as FORD chairman and designated him the party 's presidential candidate . |
| 2 | You 're an idiot if you submit an article or a piece of any kind to a magazine , to a newspaper , without actually having looked at it , and studied it , and asked yourselves the question , ‘ What sort of house style is it ? |
| 3 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 4 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 5 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 6 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Kenneth adores him and commandeered him the moment he arrived , allowing me to join them on a walk after yet another edible meal ( any more of this clever cooking and you 'll ruin your reputation ) . |
| 9 | it was n't good because erm I did n't love him and right so , so if I kissed him and met him the next day would I , would I snog , would , would he , he 'd give me the hat so I said yeah sure , you know , whatever , so he goes okay and he like prepared himself and goes no I ca n't do it in here and so I had to go outside with him , snog him , got his hat and pissed off , never saw him again . |
| 10 | Go on , Emma snatch that and read me the Gilbert and Sullivan clue . |
| 11 | In ‘ 87 , Nick had been in Athens as one of the team that lured Fawaz Younis to a boat out of territorial waters , and put the handcuffs on him , and read him the charges of Air Piracy and placing a destructive device aboard an aircraft and committing violence aboard an aircraft and aiding and abetting a hijacking . |
| 12 | I felt very proud of her and read her the letter . |
| 13 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 14 | I called on the editor and sold him the idea that I should write the feature on my province ‘ Saskatchewan ’ , which I did , thus earning $30. towards the expenses of my Vancouver holiday . |
| 15 | Later , when other countries wanted to make their own cloth from jute , the workers of Dundee made and sold them the textile machinery . |
| 16 | In Pitham & Hehl ( 1976 ) 65 Cr App R 45 , a person took the two defendants to his friend 's house and sold them the furniture of his friend who was in prison . |
| 17 | He complained once about Kavanagh 's poems being read on Irish radio in a vulgar Monaghan accent ; he saw his brother as a poetic giant among Dublin 's envious literary pygmies who filled the helpless bard with whiskey and made him the instrument of their Communist-homosexual conspiracies . |
| 18 | But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault . |
| 19 | He claimed that there had been a bona-fide revival of Gothic architecture during the reign of Queen Victoria , that there was with those who loved architecture and made it the subject of special study , |
| 20 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 21 | Behaviouralists drew a sharp distinction between normative and scientific statements , and made it the hallmark of science to avoid the normative . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A brief encounter with the new range last week convinced me the changes have rejuvenated the car and made it the equal of anything from Munich or Stuttgart . |
| 24 | Every time he lifted the cap of his luminous watch the hands seemed to have barely moved , but now he hauled Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott into the canoe and passed him the flask of coffee . |
| 25 | ‘ I know , ’ she said superciliously , and passed him the glass . |
| 26 | He nodded , paid the deposit , again in US dollars , and passed me the keys . |
| 27 | And passed me the shovel . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 30 | Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents . |