Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] and [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went very willingly to watch Everton Football Club , and to the Parish Club where they played billiards and practised with dumbbells and a punchball , and to greyhound racing . |
| 2 | They gave a 21-gun salute , played hymns and went on board a coastal yacht , where they spent most of the day alternately at anchor or sailing . |
| 3 | In order to compensate for this , some studies such as those by Deidre Wilson and Leslie Shacklady Smith ( 1978 ) undertook studies of girl delinquents and found that girls joined gangs and participated in street life in the same way as boys . |
| 4 | It was this which incensed Presbyterians and led to complaints about him in the Westminster Assembly . |
| 5 | In Peking he contacted missionaries and asked for baptism . |
| 6 | Mainly , of course , he bought books and arranged for others to be copied , but whenever any of the magnates fell foul of him , he would confiscate his library . |
| 7 | Finally , after the evening biscuit and drink of water , we said prayers and went to bed . |
| 8 | But as it was Dod , I took my fifty quid and free ploughman 's lunches ( not that Canning Town 's seen a ploughman since Shakespeare packed 'em in over at the Globe in Southwark ) and we humped boxes and sat in traffic jams and set the world to rights . |
| 9 | The people in those countries fought battles and fell in love , and wrote letters and poems . |
| 10 | From the ages of nine or ten they distributed magazines and helped to hand out the Sunday School " tickets " , picture cards of birds or flowers with a short text from the Bible . |