Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote to Mary admitting the ‘ ardent attachment ’ he had so long felt for her , and asked her to confirm a rumour that she too was now engaged . |
| 2 | ‘ However , he did show me his dogs ' pedigrees , so I rang the breeder and asked her to send a description of the puppies which she had sold . |
| 3 | Middleton said his friend David had called for him at 10pm on the night the bank was broken into and asked him to drive a car to Jedburgh . |
| 4 | To celebrate the arrival of two notables in town , I approached the mayor , well known for his Butchers Arms , and asked him to send a joint off the Old Dun Cow or even a Bulls Head . |
| 5 | In Levison v Patent Steam Carpet Cleaning Co Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 69 the plaintiff telephoned the defendants and asked them to collect a carpet for cleaning . |
| 6 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 7 | In other words , it put you in a relatively junior position and asked you to solve a problem which was relatively limited in scope . |
| 8 | These days , of course , now that I am a grown woman , I would have little problem with saying I was feeling ill and suggesting we take a break for a few minutes . |
| 9 | He came back to England and went on drinking champagne alone , and nerved himself to do a TV series without Fred . |
| 10 | It was cruel , of course , to bring someone of Estabrook 's age out on a cold day , and make him climb a hill , but Gentle knew from experience you took whatever satisfactions you could along the way . |
| 11 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 13 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 14 | Jane closed her eyes and made her mind a blank ; Lucinda sighed tremulously , and from her seat in the window Vi coughed nervously , yet the glass remained stubbornly still . |
| 15 | They were guilty as hell over the East German business and made me look a fool . |
| 16 | A week later , while he was out jogging , he encountered the Commy old bat who had put the card in the flowers and made him look a fool to Viola . |
| 17 | The moment she saw Mungo , Mary Ann fussed and tut-tutted and made him have a bath . |
| 18 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 19 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 20 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 22 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 23 | She showed these children a series of pictures and got them to tell a story about what they had seen . |
| 24 | A third , a small blonde , always wore huge , baggy clothes and men 's hoots , saying she wanted to look aggressive , to get away from the things that being small and blonde are supposed to mean , and that when she walked down the street wearing her monkey boots and trench coat she felt great , confident and striding , and daring anyone to make a comment . |
| 25 | And has everybody got a part ? |
| 26 | Mhm , and has it changed a lot do you think ? |
| 27 | Since she does n't respond to my telling her to relax I ask who is this landlord anyway and has she got a rent book ? |
| 28 | George is a quiet , fairly shy person , who is not very imaginative and needs someone to share a life with . |
| 29 | Or are you going to start getting even less money than you do now , and want me to take a cut in the housekeeping ? |
| 30 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |