Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 2 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 3 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 4 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 5 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 6 | The prosecution claims that Westmore James got into a row with the cousin , and stabbed him in the neck on the steps of a social security office . |
| 7 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 8 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 9 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 10 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 11 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 12 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 13 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 14 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 15 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 16 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |
| 17 | She reached for her mother 's photograph and laid it in the case with the rest of the things . |
| 18 | On Christmas Eve , 1950 , nationalists stole the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey and laid it in the grounds of Arbroath Abbey . |
| 19 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 20 | ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot . |
| 21 | ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot . |
| 22 | Whether this resulted in a concession is not clear , for the authorities appear to have hired and armed a body of men and posted them in the Exchange to arrest the strikers . |
| 23 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 24 | First of all , he could borrow dollars from the Fritz Bank and sell them in the spot market for DMs . |
| 25 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 26 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |
| 27 | ‘ Put all the waste paper through a shredder and sell it in the college shop as bedding for rabbits and guinea pigs . ’ |
| 28 | I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’ |
| 29 | The aims of the Fatherland Union were set out as being " to protect national interests , strengthen national unity and concord and unite everybody in the name of Bulgaria " . |
| 30 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |