Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] 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 Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England .
3 Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep .
4 We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff .
5 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 .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 Go on , Emma snatch that and read me the Gilbert and Sullivan clue .
9 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 .
10 I felt very proud of her and read her the letter .
11 Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box .
12 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 .
13 Later , when other countries wanted to make their own cloth from jute , the workers of Dundee made and sold them the textile machinery .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault .
17 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 ,
18 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 .
19 Behaviouralists drew a sharp distinction between normative and scientific statements , and made it the hallmark of science to avoid the normative .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 ‘ I know , ’ she said superciliously , and passed him the glass .
24 He nodded , paid the deposit , again in US dollars , and passed me the keys .
25 And passed me the shovel .
26 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 .
27 They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't .
28 Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents .
29 I think it was the head of the British water-skiing team who ran the camp and got us the boats and the equipment .
30 Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day .
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