Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [verb] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 2 | As their eyes met , Yanto sensed a spart of recognition and gave her a broad smile to help her recollect . |
| 3 | Kopyion poured him a drink of wine and offered him a date . |
| 4 | Charles I was equally well disposed towards Salisbury and made him a privy councillor in 1626 . |
| 5 | To head off a tantrum , try squirting a shot of washing-up liquid into a beaker , adding a bit of water and giving her a drinking straw to blow bubbles with . |
| 6 | Things may not be as bad as they seem , and some thorough maintenance work may give your existing windows a new lease of life and save you a lot of money . |
| 7 | Jack Carter fumbled a cigarette out of a packet of Players and gave him a light . |
| 8 | You could , of course , get out your trusty copy of PKZIP and shrink it a bit , then flip it onto a disk , then copy it onto your desktop , then unzip it , then delete the ZIP file . |
| 9 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 10 | They calculated the distance around the earth , then took a fraction of this measurement as their unit of length and called it a metre . |
| 11 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 12 | As Taff poured me a good measure of cider and handed me a boiled egg and a chunk of meat I described the situation at No. 4 . |
| 13 | Dr Merson called for national programmes to make AIDS prevention ‘ truly sensitive ’ to the needs of women and give them a greater say in the programmes . |
| 14 | You really can not tell me too much — I would rather sift through a huge amount of detail and give you a definite answer than have to suggest all the possible alternatives and leave you to figure out which applies in your case . |
| 15 | A middle-aged man picked me up on the M4 near Swindon and offered me a lift to London , which was very convenient . |
| 16 | Christina noticed that he looked grey with tiredness and handed him a plan he had missed . |
| 17 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 18 | Still , I could go into Burnley and give it a try . ’ |
| 19 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 20 | Ranald knelt to pull the hearth stones into place and build her a fire of peat from the fallen roof . |
| 21 | Nick , who had feared a torridly emotional hour or so was relieved by this ; grateful , he had shared half a bottle of brandy with Martin and told him a great deal about the behaviour of adolescents in certain African tribes , a safe subject , and one he was apt to enlarge on when drunk . |
| 22 | Something of the atmosphere in Roxie Farmer 's house seemed to go home with Coffin and give him a restless night . |
| 23 | ‘ Bob was very helpful when he played under men and gave me a lot of helpful advice , especially after Middlesex had scored 120 for 0 against use before lunch on my first day in charge ! ’ |
| 24 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 25 | ‘ I met Drew in Panama and liked him a lot . |
| 26 | It should hold us in suspense and give us a sense of waiting and expectation for the more important message which is to follow . |
| 27 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 28 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 29 | A 12-strong party of homeless men , who currently reside at the Fleetwood Hostel in Lancashire , were offered the chance to visit Sellafield to stimulate their interest in industry and give them a day out to remember . |
| 30 | If we 'd upset his applecart in busting out the hostages , then the radical fundamentalists might easily have taken over in Syria and given us a much worse problem . |