Example sentences of "and [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little maid whom Elisa had seen earlier standing by the door in the sitting room came into the dining room on both occasions and whispered something into his ear . |
| 2 | Then he leaned forward and whispered something into his left ear . |
| 3 | I watched as he sat next to him , and whispered something into his ear , the small man cringed slightly and looked as the middle aged woman had done at the tattered ‘ Summer Sun ’ adverts . |
| 4 | She disappeared , then reappeared behind the counter and whispered something to the girl who was on duty there . |
| 5 | The proprietor took over , and was still serving the portions when one of the waitresses came in and whispered something to Delaney . |
| 6 | Cousin Jane looked across at her and smiled and whispered something to Mike . |
| 7 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 8 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 9 | THIS is usually the jolliest month of the year because you can justify buying up the High Street and nursing lots of hangovers . |
| 10 | I think it would be fun to use fabric paints rather than hunting for and knitting lots of different colours . |
| 11 | He 's a scratch golfer , too , and plays everything from hockey to squash with much skill . |
| 12 | They were opened with huge and ancient keys , and led one into a secret world of liquid green shadows . |
| 13 | So you did n't have a letter there and then and asked something about was it put into writing . |
| 14 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 15 | Mr Sisulu , now 77 , was six years older than Mr Mandela and became something of a mentor to him on his arrival in Johannesburg in 1941 . |
| 16 | Ornamental grasses also featured here and became something of a talking point , especially Carex comans ‘ Bronze Form ’ . |
| 17 | When he had recovered from his ordeal , Ciparis was able to tell of what had happened — and he went on telling the story for the rest of his life , for he was given a free pardon , joined a travelling circus , and became something of a celebrity . |
| 18 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 19 | Moët et Chandon has the leading brand in most world markets and supplies one in four of all bottles of champagne exported from F rance . |
| 20 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 21 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 22 | A trigger operates the accelerator and produces anything from a gentle breeze to a 140mph gust . |
| 23 | As the New Right has denounced and undermined a communitarian form of society , so ‘ The numbers of people for whom such communitarian visions are good and mean something at the level of their everyday experiences are declining , attenuating their moral force . ’ |
| 24 | It was also a pleasant break from air-travel to go by road from Agra to Delhi , and to see something of the country . |
| 25 | She would come to the vicarage and borrow something of Sophia 's . |
| 26 | Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs . |
| 27 | If you feel adventurous , you could follow Rachel 's example and make one for yourself . |
| 28 | There 's a stubborn clinging to bad habits that benign social planners and therapists would like to ‘ liberate ’ us from , an obstinate refusal to ‘ move on up ’ and make something of oneself . |
| 29 | Managers are responsible for providing their people with development opportunities , but it is always up to the individual person to take the opportunities on offer and make something of them . |
| 30 | In a tone that brooked no argument , the old lady announced , ‘ You 'll marry Benedict , and make something of him ! ’ |