Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She disappeared , then reappeared behind the counter and whispered something to the girl who was on duty there . |
| 2 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 3 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 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 | It had been alleged that after hiring Mr Mullan 's taxi for a journey from Gourock to Greenock , he produced a hunting knife and stabbed him on the chest . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 9 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 10 | Yussuf caught hold of her and propelled her towards the gate . |
| 11 | Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study . |
| 12 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 13 | ‘ Piano , Aaron , piano ! ’ she called , and her middle stepson , with his mobile thin white clown 's face , emerged from the crowd and seated himself at the instrument , as Liz called to Deirdre and the butlers to fill glasses and then join the guests for a toast : Jonathan turned on the radio , the eagle-crowned clock over the marble mantelshelf struck , some joined hands and some did not , Aaron struck up Auld Lang Syne , Big Ben struck , some sang and some did not , voices rose straggling , pure and impure , strong and weak , tuneful and tuneless , there were cries and embraces . |
| 14 | He laid the picture down and seated himself before the table . |
| 15 | Victoria came up the room and seated herself on the couch , and without either greeting or preamble , she said , ‘ I 've had indigestion ever since Christmas Day . |
| 16 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 17 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 18 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 19 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 20 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 21 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 22 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 23 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 24 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 25 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 26 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 27 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 30 | 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 . |