Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 2 | When he joined Ingard and wanted a number two he thought of me and asked me to come in with him . |
| 3 | ‘ After the death of Sicelo I decided to meet with a lawyer and asked him to put down on record that I had taken part in a film . |
| 4 | He had questioned Ashenden in detail for several minutes about the crucial phone call with Kemp , and asked him to write down in dialogue-form the exchanges as far as he could recall them . |
| 5 | I rang Seddon at home before he left for New Scotland Yard and asked him to find out for me the names of the officers who had dealt with the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 6 | The court usher appeared then and asked them to move out into the corridor . |
| 7 | AN EMPLOYEE stole his boss 's BMW car and sold it to make up for wages he had not been paid , a court heard . |
| 8 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 9 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 10 | Stuart came home last night in his usual cheerful mood , gave me a kiss , put his arm round me and made me sit down as if he had something important to say . |
| 11 | He pipped me mum and made me jump out of my bloody skin . |
| 12 | There were moments of anguish , which tore him apart and made him sob along with her . |
| 13 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 14 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 15 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 16 | The hot car seats stung the children 's bare legs and made them cry out in protest . |
| 17 | But an MP says he 'll be taking up the case , and demanding it go back to the courts for a stiffer sentence . |
| 18 | I repeated it and got it read back with scepticism . |
| 19 | Through the mists of agony and fear he looked back at the dragon . |
| 20 | Between doses the water is best agitated by lifting a spoonful up in the air and allowing it to splash back in the glass ten or twenty times . |
| 21 | She helps William Ernest with his reading and encourages him to stick up for himself at school . |
| 22 | Critics wrote of the leitmotif for Malvolio that it ‘ captured the colour mus-tard ’ , and that Guérigny was ‘ positively acrobatic in his ability to turn little themes on their heads and send them spinning out of hearing ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom . |
| 24 | In the presence of a lovely woman he was carried away and , ignoring her husband completely , presented Lunia with the finished sketch and invited her to go out with him that evening . |
| 25 | ‘ Look , ’ Donaldson told him outside , ‘ I 'm not being deliberately awkward , but you ca n't appear from nowhere and expect me to go along with you without an explanation . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ you come in ere half pissed once a month , usually around midnight , and expect me to jump around for you , now you 're bringing you mates as well . ’ |
| 27 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 28 | In the darkness and wet it lived up to its evil reputation . |
| 29 | I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance . |
| 30 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |