Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meredith asked , and lent him a handkerchief . |
| 2 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 3 | Their leader grabbed the bridle of Corbett 's horse and asked him a question he could not understand . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 5 | He is also the epitome of the New Man , and has been known to leave his office to arrive home in time to bath his daughter , Mary-Claire , and read her a story before bed . |
| 6 | He had let the dealer from Hadleigh come , a man called Evans or Owens , one of those Welsh names , and sold him a brass lantern and two little carved tables and the sherry glasses . |
| 7 | Managed to let him know about our Social and sold him a book of Christmas Draw tickets . |
| 8 | The face disappeared from the pay booth and appeared again in front of us and sold us a packet of sweets . |
| 9 | She said goodbye to Jenny at the garage and made her a parting present of the Brownie Annual , which left Jenny almost speechless with delight . |
| 10 | The appearance of her ‘ rival ’ so encouraged Penelope that it was as if Rupert himself had come out of his house and made her a declaration of love . |
| 11 | Then he bathed her eyes and made her a cup of tea . |
| 12 | Often she did n't get up in the mornings , lying in bed while Emmie got breakfast and made her a cup of tea . |
| 13 | The war marked Japan 's acquisition of her first colonies , and made her a force to be reckoned with in East Asian affairs . |
| 14 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 15 | The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society . |
| 16 | ‘ Colin Todd told me centre half was my position , but he listened to the crowd and made me a scapegoat after a Cup defeat at Aston Villa . |
| 17 | She came and made me a ham sandwich and the maid just look at her to eat it now . |
| 18 | He summoned Morgan back to England in disgrace , and made him a knight . |
| 19 | His uncle had entered him as a subscriber onto the Royal Exchange , Manchester , and made him a partner . |
| 20 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 21 | And the man to do that was John Bloomm , whose Rolls Razor company brought automated washing within the reach of ordinary people and made him a tycoon worth millions . |
| 22 | Garvey 's twisted his dreams and taken the pageant from him and turned the plays to his own ends and made him a party to this … this blasphemy ! |
| 23 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 24 | One morning I strolled home from the supermarket at the end of the road and made myself a cup of coffee . |
| 25 | She let herself into the house , and made herself a cup of tea . |
| 26 | Wendy ran after her child but her spiked heels slowed her , so she gave up and came back home and made herself a cup of coffee and read the stories in the back of her magazine . |
| 27 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |
| 28 | Then she moved quietly into the kitchen and made herself a mug of tea . |
| 29 | For example , the 1986 Act removed the right to benefit for most 16- and 17-year-olds and made it a requirement that claimants pay 20 per cent of their rates/poll tax and 100 per cent of their water rates . |
| 30 | This gave statutory recognition for the first time to the area concept , and made it a duty of local planning authorities ‘ to determine which parts of their areas are areas of special architectural or historic interest , the character of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance ’ and to designate such areas as conservation areas ' . |