Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was also mustering troops , and planned to lead them northwards to join up with her son . |
| 2 | I was told that your Earl Siward had the army of Alba immobilised in the south , and expected to overwhelm it . |
| 3 | Over the years Gambo became quite famous , and found himself dragged from battle to battle and expected to launch his now famous Halfling hot pot into the enemy ranks . |
| 4 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 5 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 6 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 7 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 8 | Shortly after the shooting at the cottage at Tully-West , a man telephoned and asked to meet him . |
| 9 | In a well-known experiment , subjects were shown playing-cards for a small duration of time and asked to identify them . |
| 10 | According to Gregory , Gundobad murdered Chilperic , and exiled Chlothild ; Clovis , however , learnt about the girl , and asked to marry her ; Gundobad was afraid to refuse . |
| 11 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 12 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 13 | Jean Pert was sent this poem by a partner in her Prayer Chain and asked to share it with us . |
| 14 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 15 | And you should be happy because you have made your sale , given your customers credit , and avoided giving it yourself . |
| 16 | Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris . |
| 17 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 18 | Greg Norman has had his chances and failed to take them , but Ian Baker-Finch , the Open champion , or Craig Parry might do better . |
| 19 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 20 | She adjusted a nose here , a thigh there , she shifted the alignment of a particularly alluring set of eyebrows , unzipped flies to inspect their contents , was disappointed and failed to put them back properly , so they peeked , pinkly , from between metal teeth . |
| 21 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 22 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 23 | Maybe the chief executive officer or some member of the board of directors had reason to doubt the standing procedures for reviewing design and failed to improve them . |
| 24 | I suppose it is out of the question that one of our own police stations might have received such a notification , and failed to pass it on ? ’ |
| 25 | The Stuarts had had their chance and failed to seize it . |
| 26 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 27 | A Norman baron , Geoffrey de Harcourt , Lord of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in the Cotentin , fled to Edward 's court in England and sought to persuade him to invade Normandy . |
| 28 | But the Senior Management Team saw him as a somewhat shy and introverted person and sought to persuade him to be more outward-looking and to be the teacher in the Art department to liaise with the Needlecraft department , a development which they were keen to see . |
| 29 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 30 | Dicey himself recognized this problem and sought to resolve it . |