Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warrants were issued to arrest Koresh and to search Mount Carmel for illegal weapons . |
| 2 | He eyed the cravat critically and decided that he liked it — in general , he admired and envied Mr Hellyer 's casual way of dressing — then crept silently closer and pounced . |
| 3 | Charles led an Austrasian and Saxon army personally down the Danube , and wasted Avar territories as far as the River Raab . |
| 4 | The man ran off into nearby fields and stabbed PC Lucey in the eye when he followed . |
| 5 | and frightened Miss Muffet away |
| 6 | and down came the spider and sat down behind her and frightened Miss Muffet away , there 's a spider |
| 7 | Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and wheys , along came a spider , along came a , no I not say along came a spider and sat down beside her , along came a spider and sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away |
| 8 | New German money flocked to buy jewels , silver and objets de vertu touched with the lustre of German history when the treasures superfluous to requirements of the Fürsts von Thurn und Taxis came under the hammer in Geneva on 17 November . |
| 9 | The film version starred Dora Bryan and propelled Rita Tushingham to stardom . |
| 10 | She advanced the opinion that the bird would n't last much longer , and recommended Miss Vine to think about the purchase of a new one . |
| 11 | Party people from Donna Summer to pioneer DJ and remixer Walter Gibbons have boogied into the sexual inferno of disco and emerged from the flames as Bible-spouting just-born Christians . |
| 12 | Yet the EC continues to think politically in treaty of Rome and divided Europe terms . |
| 13 | ‘ Come and sit down ’ , she said , and led Mrs Phipps to a chair by the useless tea-urn . |
| 14 | Athelstan bowed , smiled thinly at the rest of the group , glanced despairingly at the snoring Cranston and led Sir Brian down the corridor . |
| 15 | It marks a change of heart for Scorsese , who once swore he would never make a film about the Mafia , and led De Niro to break a few rules of his own : ‘ I was in the middle of filming We 're No Angels when we started to discuss GoodFellas and began working on my role , Jim Conway , together . |
| 16 | It was a dispiriting affair , and since the material was being auctioned on behalf of the gallery 's creditors , there were no reserves and auctioneer Ian Mackenzie was forced to lower as well as raise his bids in order to find buyers for each of 144 lots which raised £97,070 ( $166,300 ) . |
| 17 | And Judge Lawrence Verney allowed himself a wry little smile . |
| 18 | He had asked the court for a ruling after Judge Robert Lymbery and Judge Kenneth Machin excluded the public from pre-trial hearings in September . |
| 19 | Her doctor told Swindon Crown Court that Mrs Fribbens was registered blind and suffered frequent bouts of confusion , and Judge John McNaught said it was important not to attach too much weight to a statement she gave to the police . |
| 20 | Grendon has been operating for 30 years and Judge Stephen Tumim 's report , published today , praises them for their standards of humanity , care and dignity . |
| 21 | Hence the obsession with Kung Fu films and Judge Dredd comics . |
| 22 | The national reconciliation conference was suspended temporarily last week after forces loyal to Gen Morgan used women and children as shields and attacked Mr Jess 's supporters . |
| 23 | More importantly , he hated the Toleration Act and attacked John Locke 's Letter Concerning Toleration . |
| 24 | ( During a lunch given in his honour by the British in the island , the wife of one of the wine-shippers bit her tongue rather painfully and asked Lloyd George if he ever did that . |
| 25 | At an emergency meeting of the Islamic Conference Organization ( ICO ) convened on June 17 to discuss the situation of the Moslem population in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38987 ] , Bosnian Foreign Minister Haris Siladzic called for military intervention and asked ICO member states to sever diplomatic links with Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | He came back to London on Boxing Day evening , but the vicarage party went to the theatre that night and asked Ianthe Broome to join them . |
| 27 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 28 | Daily she went to the M's farm and asked Mrs M to teach her . |
| 29 | It came about because , after an early night in the same bed as that slept in by the Prince , Dr Johnson , who had a cold and had been rendered a little deaf by it , ‘ spoke of Prince Charles being here , and asked Mrs Macdonald , ‘ Who was with him ? |
| 30 | The woman looked Italian , so I went and asked John Florio about her . |