Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , and the free labour conflict conducted by the Shipping Federation , troubled him less , however , than the Federation 's malicious attempts to destroy his credibility and that of the union by maligning his character and labelling him a criminal . |
| 2 | An estimated 3,000 delegates from one faction claiming to represent the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) gathered in Nairobi on Sept. 4 and unanimously elected Jaramogi Oginga Odinga as FORD chairman and designated him the party 's presidential candidate . |
| 3 | The young nurse brought Michael a chair and he sat beside Joe , holding the old man 's hand and stroking it every now and again . |
| 4 | Would you care for it and tend it every day |
| 5 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 6 | Meredith asked , and lent him a handkerchief . |
| 7 | Just four years after Charles 's death , Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims , who had been an important political figure throughout Charles 's reign ( though not consistently close to him ) , wrote a treatise , The Government of the Palace , for the young King Carloman , Charles 's grandson , and lent it an air of authority by claiming to incorporate the work of Abbot Adalard of Corbie , who had died nearly sixty years before . |
| 8 | In the meantime , I want you all to try and build me a decent-sized castle , right ? ’ |
| 9 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 10 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 11 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 12 | Their leader grabbed the bridle of Corbett 's horse and asked him a question he could not understand . |
| 13 | She wrote to SSDs and asked them a series of questions about training for residential child care staff on HIV and sexuality . |
| 14 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 15 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 16 | We also had to shear and dip them every year and friends would come to help . |
| 17 | Should you want to do some withy and teasel research for yourself , you might visit their willow and wetland centre in Stoke St Gregory where they grow 50 acres of willow and harvest it every winter , when the plants are dormant and the rods measure 8 feet . |
| 18 | Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money . |
| 19 | He thought he 'd find a rich one and sell him the cross for a good price . |
| 20 | Should she do a U-turn and sell him the house ? she wondered . |
| 21 | This program is a must for anyone using a PC at home and will impress dinner guests who always say ‘ You simply must let me have a copy of the recipe , the meal was delicious ’ , you can now print it out in seconds and sell them a copy . |
| 22 | Kenneth adores him and commandeered him the moment he arrived , allowing me to join them on a walk after yet another edible meal ( any more of this clever cooking and you 'll ruin your reputation ) . |
| 23 | By due process of law we have sentenced him to be slit in the hamstrings to be an example to those who would follow him and make him a hero to the people . |
| 24 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 25 | So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record . |
| 26 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 27 | And make him an offer he could n't refuse . |
| 28 | You need to dream , then formulate your goals from those dreams and make them a reality . |
| 29 | Should cut the gentlemen on Foggy Bottom , or wherever , down to size and make them a mite more civil and cooperative in future . |
| 30 | Double positives are taken away making it negative and your H positives go in here , making it positive , so you get a you get a little a little potential difference , a little difference in voltage , which gives a Any any two metals if you put them together and make them a bit damp , or even if you do n't make them damp , you usually get a little a tiny voltage . |