Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] and [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 2 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a clear majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 3 | Ollokot overtook them and joined a group of warriors in resisting Captain Benteen 's attempt to outflank the fleeing families . |
| 4 | The traditional story is that Edison sketched out the idea to his mechanic John Kruesi , who built it and bet a box of cigars it would not work . |
| 5 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 6 | Gaily always felt that she decided things , signed them and sealed them and delivered a verdict . |
| 7 | Paulus proceeded to turn to jelly , while Sanchez , the French Open champion , steeled herself and emerged a 6-4 , 6-7 , 7-5 winner . |
| 8 | ‘ Your railway system seemed to be having trouble with the RAF , ’ Devlin told him and lit a cigarette , mainly because he knew Himmler detested the habit . |
| 9 | One man who booked a Rolls Royce and two Mercedes with the company last July said : ‘ We booked it and paid a £120 deposit and then found out later that things were not right . |
| 10 | He does not wish to be named but said : ‘ We booked it and paid a £120 deposit and then found out later that things were not right . |
| 11 | Edward lifted it and splashed a little water into the teapot , swirling it around . |
| 12 | Often she hated everyone and spent a lot of time crying , which the Robinses evidently decided not to see . |
| 13 | He showed a box of matches , shook them and asked a volunteer to guess how many were in the box . |
| 14 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 15 | Unlike his rabbinic forebears who were not allowed ‘ to use the Torah as an axe , ’ to earn their keep from its knowledge and application , this was a métier which both claimed him and offered a fulfilling vocation . |
| 16 | He opened it and chose a sentence at random . |
| 17 | She took a cigar box from a cupboard , opened it and displayed a number of sticks of greasepaint . |
| 18 | Firefighters who arrived to tackle the blaze in Nuneaton Street , Dalmarnock , had to summon police protection when youths harassed them and stole a radio from a tender . |
| 19 | She enjoyed herself and acknowledged a disloyal thought that if Anthony had been there she would not have had nearly so much fun . |
| 20 | Maggie heard him and made a small rueful face . |
| 21 | At the end of the dance Maggie thanked him and beat a hasty retreat back to Natasha . |
| 22 | He kissed her and pressed a list of phone numbers and dates and times into her hand . |
| 23 | The referee retrieved it and ordered a bully-off . |
| 24 | He signed it and added a subscription . |
| 25 | you see , he , he he can he cancelled cos his name came up and then he cancelled and he never heard anything and went a bit er we told him about Doreen , he said , oh I better go down and see what 's happened er he went down and then about three minutes later he got this erm card yes er , this week to say that come in , but , before you come in ring to see if there 's a bed . |
| 26 | so they they pinched it and got a buyer out there ! |
| 27 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 28 | On the way out a visiting French person saw me and poked a finger at the shirt . |
| 29 | He looked himself and saw a tall old woman coming towards them . |
| 30 | And Austen Chamberlain was still telling Baldwin that the Conservative position would only be restored if he bestirred himself and put a less negative spirit in his speeches . |