Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got to go there tomorrow , so ’ — he took his hand from the wheel and gave her a quick pat — ‘ put your neb under your wing until after the holidays and see what transpires then . ’ |
| 2 | The ensuing exchange over the months turned the whole cast of Balzac 's Comédie Humaine into Katherine 's familiars and gave her an awareness of greed and ambition , love and betrayal far beyond her years . |
| 3 | Peron needed the union movement for support and , indeed , it was the labour movement who brought him back from exile and won him the presidency . |
| 4 | She has done us many a kindness and fed us every morning . " |
| 5 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 6 | He borrowed someone 's press card and brought her a drink . |
| 7 | The employee behind the check in desk gave me a huge smile and welcomed me to the airport , gave me my seat reservation card and wished me a good journey . |
| 8 | Mrs Young , who had paused in her search , finally found her purse and gave me a dollar . |
| 9 | He rolled his eyes and blew her a kiss but unfortunately Maggie saw him do it . |
| 10 | Then he bathed her eyes and made her a cup of tea . |
| 11 | The woman at the door raised weary , gold-lidded eyes and gave her an anonymous welcoming smile . |
| 12 | I opened my eyes and gave him a puzzled look . |
| 13 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 14 | Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings . |
| 15 | He waved the clerk to a seat and served him a cup of watered wine . |
| 16 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 17 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His purchase of the Kemsley newspaper chain was a step in the overall process of press concentration and gave him a Fleet Street prize , The Sunday Times . |
| 20 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 21 | No wonder his chairman , Sam Hammam , has hit the roof and called him a mosquito brain . |
| 22 | Having eaten it , he brewed some tea and took her a cup . |
| 23 | Megan unpacked the picnic tea and handed me a plastic cup . |
| 24 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 25 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 26 | I made sure I did n't put on too much weight and set myself a final goal — to get down to 13 stone . ’ |
| 27 | Rudyard Kipling ( who once was forced to travel on a migrant train in the United States and found it a ‘ nightmare ’ ) encountered a peculiarly American hazard for the famous traveller . |
| 28 | Buddie had been very angry , but everyone else had laughed at Frankie and called him a snivelling cissy . |
| 29 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 30 | A brief encounter with the new range last week convinced me the changes have rejuvenated the car and made it the equal of anything from Munich or Stuttgart . |