Example sentences of "[prep] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The navy was the guarantee that Great Britain 's interests elsewhere could be looked after and gave her enormous strategical advantages outside Europe . |
| 2 | I had a poster done out and had it outside the town hall . |
| 3 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 4 | The buck thrashed and spat and made a high keening noise I did n't think rabbits were capable of and beat its legs on the ground . |
| 5 | She went on the skiing holiday he had paid for and accepted his excuse about his daughter 's measles without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 6 | Written up details of recycling campaigning experience for and sent it to . |
| 7 | I played for and captained my country so I know how important it is and I would never stop anybody going . |
| 8 | ‘ Then you must also realize that for me to do what the Brigadier suggests would be a betrayal of everything my father stood for and gave his life for . ’ |
| 9 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 10 | Other companies have run numbers on what USL would be worth and found it hard to justify more than $200m . |
| 11 | The Editor read the cable through and asked what steps I proposed to take . |
| 12 | Donaldson read the form through and signed it ; only his silence was needed to keep him from all liability . |
| 13 | She darted past him and opened the door that led to the store-room , then helped somewhat ineffectually as he dragged the mattress through and hefted it on to a stack of boxes . |
| 14 | ‘ This way , ’ Miss Honey said , and she opened the gate and led Matilda through and closed it again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | er and Sharon never alt er cancelled that , well they come out and they said they 'd had Chinese flu so when I went into and had me chest done , I says I 've got the flu like , she says yeah she said I says I , I know , I said they 've got that Chinese flu she 's be |
| 17 | So we built this snowman round this rock and this car came back cos he came he just came in to hit it and he burst into and broke his bumper . |
| 18 | As at any other self-respecting nursery , we always gathered ours up and burned them — but not these lads . |
| 19 | Francis and Christopher dissolved in laughter , lapped theirs up and declared it very good . |
| 20 | We could have looked for something to press it with and pressed it . |
| 21 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 22 | She had a foal with us during the dreadful winter of 1947 , and her behaviour became even worse , so much so that our good neighbour Mr Britton said she was n't fit for a young woman like me to work with and insisted I borrow his horse Bobby , a very even-tempered animal . |
| 23 | Terry left the group he was sitting with and joined me . |
| 24 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 25 | Professional musicians are mostly a cynical lot — they 've heard it all before and played it all before too . |
| 26 | Be a pal , Kate , and slip me the copy of Gay News you hide under your desk because I do n't allow it in the library , talk about work , Kate , discuss how we spend £5000 on economics books for the university libraries , tell me about how you 're stopping the students thieving my favourite art books , but please for God 's sake , Kate , do n't be difficult , do n't talk about imperialism and marxism and feminism , I 've heard it all before and said it all myself , twenty years ago before I had a wife and children to support . |
| 27 | He had never been in hospital before and consulted his General Practitioner infrequently . |
| 28 | It was the court which Benjamin Haydon appeared before and ordered his release . |
| 29 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 30 | The first boy says he 's never had vegge burgers before and thought it would be a good idea to try them . |