Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness . |
| 2 | Because this policy existed , and the government was democratic , both the United States and the International Monetary Fund have given Argentina the benefit of the doubt and lent it money to tide it over . |
| 3 | Laidlaw 's raid , however , had other repercussions , for the Japanese built more extensive defences around Dili and manned them day and night ; a use of men and resources that in eight or so weeks would be desperately needed on Guadalcanal , or later that year in defences against other Allied landings . |
| 4 | But by 1 March all semblance of the princes deciding the matter , with the help of the pope 's legates , had disappeared , for on this day the papal chancery addressed Otto as " illustrious king " and announced him emperor elect . |
| 5 | Taskopruzade writes : " Then [ Sultan Mehmed ] made him kazasker , then he removed him and made him Mufti . |
| 6 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 7 | The terrace tiles were already warm under her bare feet ; the sunlight , when she looked towards it , stung her eyes and made them water . |
| 8 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 9 | Sometimes the big girls bullied us little ones and made us hand over our teatime bread or evening biscuit . |
| 10 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 11 | Nothing is known about his employment from 1815 to 1830 , when Messrs C. , H. , and G. Enderby proposed an Antarctic sealing voyage , and appointed him master of the brig Tula ( 150 tons ) , which was not a good sea boat , with the cutter Lively and twenty-nine men and boys in all . |
| 12 | ‘ Spewed me ring up all night , then I went and rode me bike into that mooring rope over there , ’ he indicated further up the dock . |
| 13 | And got him plenty sex . |
| 14 | And , as time melted the sunbeam and dripped it moment by moment from the desk to the floor , Chesarynth had only her dubious belief in Friend to sustain her . |
| 15 | In his important paper , Perring ( 1953 ) extracted these records and listed them island by island . |
| 16 | ‘ I went round and rehearsed them night after night at the various clubs , ’ he recalls . |
| 17 | He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England . |
| 18 | Whilst he was in France , Edward II left his friend , Gaveston , as Regent , and created him Earl of Cornwall . |
| 19 | He took Mould to the room without any floorboards , and helped him piece together a bizarre contraption containing metal beams , weights and cogs . |
| 20 | Oh , yes , I knew Marlowe the playwright and helped him stage his play Edward II . |
| 21 | And somebody was following , a colleague was following , saw it happen , stopped and helped him sort of do what you 've got to do to get the man 's address and this sort of thing , make sure the car was alright , and took him into the office . |
| 22 | Until the mid-1980s , merchants bought their cattle and drove them south , where the climate is less favourable to cattle rearing . |
| 23 | Two sides may each want to beat the other , they may even hate each other as sides , but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about , then they 'd feel together . |
| 24 | Returning to Cyprus on 16 February , Coleman engineered another meeting with Hurley and told him Condor would be glad to do what it could to help . |
| 25 | In July 1878 , though , the Bureau of Indian Affairs assumed responsibility for the Nez Perce , and transferred them south to the parched 7000-acre Quapaw Reservation in Kansas Territory . |
| 26 | On 22 June , a Saturday , about ten of us manhandled the Wilsons ' caravan on to the Lecky Road , the main artery through the Bogside , and parked it broadside in the middle of the road , stopping all the traffic . |
| 27 | His Mum helped herself to peas and poured him lemonade . |
| 28 | He hated it when she was tactful and allowed him space to meet women . |
| 29 | If it had been , they would never have summoned him here and allowed him access to the hallowed Tower . |
| 30 | A judicial reform passed by parliament on Nov. 19 reduced the period for which suspects could be held in custody before being brought to trial and allowed them access to a lawyer during questioning . |