Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guntram 's bishops dealt with a disagreement between their king and his brother Sigibert in 573 , and Guntram himself summoned two councils to Mâcon between 581 and 585 , and another to Valence in the same period . |
| 2 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 3 | From the description and sketch you drew I 'm sure you 've seen Link Stakes . |
| 4 | This rather reserved child , this self-styled future utopian essayist , found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happiness , found herself possessed by a desire to comprehend and convey what had happened , was happening , to a handful of people near her . |
| 5 | In order to talk about something that did not have to do with fondling and stroking she spoke of the garments . |
| 6 | ‘ One morning they woke me up , told me to wash my face , and led me blindfolded into a room with a TV camera . |
| 7 | Anyway , if such a well-bred person was unlucky enough to be afflicted with one of these ailments , he was more likely to consult some understanding physician privately ; and so it was largely the dirty and damned who attended the special clinics . |
| 8 | The sixth Duke never married , but he was a great horticulturist , and it is believed it was his interest and influence which led to the establishment of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick . |
| 9 | And if there was any one reason which , more than any other , ensured his defeat at the ensuing general election , then surely it was the inability of the trade union movement to assume during what had therefore become the winter of discontent , the responsibility required of them as a justification of the power and influence they claimed . |
| 10 | I heard a scuffle outside and presumed he 'd been escorted from the building , but before leaving he pushed a News of the World Christmas card under the door offering me £40,000 for an interview . |
| 11 | and expected she had n't got as much as she |
| 12 | This proposal aroused very considerable opposition from many of the institutions concerned and NAB itself made a reasoned case for some amendment , which appears to have made some impact . |
| 13 | Picked up the pace picked up the square ball here and attacked he went went like a bomb . |
| 14 | They stopped , of course , and asked what had happened , and two minutes later the three girls — clutching a pair of high-heeled shoes — were safely ensconced in the back of the car . |
| 15 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 16 | Eventually she let him win and asked who told him . |
| 17 | He paraded the section and asked who had attacked Gionesca . |
| 18 | She was busy stuffing our cupboards , the fridge and the freezer with the food and supplies she had brought from the town . |
| 19 | He wrote again , a careful , stilted letter , expressing gratitude for the help he had received and suggesting they shook hands and called it a day . |
| 20 | In twenty minutes of sublime running and handling they dropped the proverbial ‘ bar of soap ’ just once . |
| 21 | went out of the house to go to , shut the door and realized I 'd left my cars in the house . |
| 22 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 23 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 24 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 25 | He heard Larry asking why , and realized he had been deaf . |
| 26 | He also spoke of an occasion when , dressed in his archbishop 's robes after some function , he had hailed a taxi to go home and realized he had no money . |
| 27 | Craig looked around him and realized he had been here before . |
| 28 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 29 | Erm tt I think , oh dear , I saw an advert in the paper I think to , to take out a savings plan or something and I just signed up a , a form and back it came . |
| 30 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |