Example sentences of "and [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eudo summoned all his strength , as if he could stand the pain no longer , and whispered a name . |
| 2 | One of the businessmen sniggered and whispered a comment to his neighbour , who burst into raucous laughter . |
| 3 | Eardwulf met and countered a succession of threats from rival aethelings in the first years of his reign . |
| 4 | A third party should be entitled to assume that a person in an authoritative position within an organisation is competent to bind the organisation , and the organisation should not be able to plead violation of an internal rule unless ‘ that violation was manifest and concerned a rule of its internal law of fundamental importance . ’ |
| 5 | The eight youths had each drunk up to 15 cans of lager and shared a bottle of Pernod before rampaging through the village of Alverstoke , Hants . |
| 6 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 7 | A down-at-heel English journalist , Charles Beadle , lived nearby and shared a passion for gardening with Beatrice . |
| 8 | Maddison and Shearer arrived at the Dell from their native north-east at the same time and shared a house when they were virtual unknowns . |
| 9 | They left Oxford in 1921 , with seconds in modern history , and shared a flat in London while establishing parallel careers . |
| 10 | Riven blinked , and shared a glance with Bicker . |
| 11 | However , in February 1925 , only a few months after entry to the rue d'Ulm , he was suffering from nervous depression and planned a trip to a Swiss sanatorium . |
| 12 | After two years , however , Gordon too got the wanderlust urge and planned a horse-back ride from South America to New York that would take him two years . |
| 13 | Over confident after their quick victories , the Japanese began an invasion of the Solomons and planned a landing at Port Moresby in south-east New Guinea . |
| 14 | From there he issued demands to the Republic and failing any reply captured Bandung ( 22 January 1950 ) and planned a coup to depose the USI government in Jakarta . |
| 15 | So I was persuaded , and planned a start at dawn . |
| 16 | Finally he jumped up , when he thought the appropriate moment had arrived , and whipped a blast of abuse across the table . |
| 17 | They generally support the notion of a European dimension to the curriculum and voiced a commitment to working cooperatively together . |
| 18 | He stepped back and chanced a look at Madra . |
| 19 | He waved a hand at the company in the circolo , this time higher , but still with the palm towards his breast in farewell , and laid a tip for the boy on the varnished wooden table . |
| 20 | I watched for the gas station on Harvey 's map and turned off on to an unmade road that kicked up stones against the underside of the Rambler and laid a film of dust across the tinted windscreen . |
| 21 | Kimber and Sharp continued to correspond until Sharp 's death in 1924 , and when Cecil Sharp House was built in London , Kimber helped to lay the foundations in 1929 , and laid a course of bricks . |
| 22 | She suddenly gasped and laid a hand to her stomach . |
| 23 | Elinor turned to him and laid a hand on his head . |
| 24 | She blushed charmingly and laid a hand over his . |
| 25 | When they reached the bank of the river Nathaniel Sherman motioned his son ahead into the waiting dugout canoe and laid a hand on Devraux 's shoulder . |
| 26 | Jean-Claude joined them , made a puffy sound through his smoke and laid a hand on the arm of George Felix . |
| 27 | " You 're cold too , " he whispered , and laid a hand on her satin-covered knee . |
| 28 | She crossed the yard and laid a hand on his arm . |
| 29 | Ronni shook her head and laid a hand on his arm , smiling kindly at the blushing red-haired girl as she did so . |
| 30 | She warmed yesterdays bread and cooked three eggs and laid a tray and took the lot upstairs , meaning to return with coals for Mr Landor 's fire as soon as he was placated with the food . |