Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting down his glass and removing hers , he gripped her shoulders and propelled her to stand in front of the mirror . |
| 2 | While goldfish were flushed down the lavatory , she normally placed her other dead pets in a cardboard shoe box , dug a hole beneath the spreading cedar tree on the lawn and laid them to rest . |
| 3 | MOLLY SCRUTTON 's interest in movement began at an early age and led her to join a junior dance group and later a gymnastics club . |
| 4 | The key statement of Brenda 's turn is the one at line 15 – 16 , Mp:112> which gives her explanation of why she agreed to dance with a man whose initial approach had shocked her and led her to respond coolly . |
| 5 | Empirical research in the 1960s demonstrated that even in the cases where the middle class had been initially progressive , success had given them a conservative outlook and led them to join forces with the traditional elite rather than with the working class ( Ratinoff 1967 , Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 6 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 7 | It was the not knowing which perturbed him most and led him to take an action which he knew would lead to his inevitable and somewhat painful death . |
| 8 | This romantic view of the Germanic commune had an unconscious effect on Marx and led him to follow those German historians who were trying to reconstruct an old system which they say as smothered by a newer one . |
| 9 | ‘ One morning they woke me up , told me to wash my face , and led me blindfolded into a room with a TV camera . |
| 10 | His catches at Tring on flavoured maggot were extraordinary and led me to follow him . |
| 11 | Spice drew us round the world , showed us it was round , and led us to confront ourselves again . |
| 12 | Anyway , if such a well-bred person was unlucky enough to be afflicted with one of these ailments , he was more likely to consult some understanding physician privately ; and so it was largely the dirty and damned who attended the special clinics . |
| 13 | I heard a scuffle outside and presumed he 'd been escorted from the building , but before leaving he pushed a News of the World Christmas card under the door offering me £40,000 for an interview . |
| 14 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 15 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 16 | Instead of retaining exclusive control over classroom resources , Rick showed pupils where equipment , etc. was kept and expected them to help themselves to whatever they needed . |
| 17 | Tracey was in one of his self-pitying moods , and expected her to do something about it . |
| 18 | She did n't like the way he just snapped his fingers and expected her to follow . |
| 19 | and expected she had n't got as much as she |
| 20 | This is precisely how Dicey viewed Parliament and expected it to act . |
| 21 | ( 1981 , 1983 ) believed that the greenhouse warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century , and expected it to become noticeable during the 1980s . |
| 22 | Picked up the pace picked up the square ball here and attacked he went went like a bomb . |
| 23 | Curtis telephoned the seamen 's shelter and asked somebody to find Titch and get him to ring back . |
| 24 | They stopped , of course , and asked what had happened , and two minutes later the three girls — clutching a pair of high-heeled shoes — were safely ensconced in the back of the car . |
| 25 | The Editor read the cable through and asked what steps I proposed to take . |
| 26 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 27 | A stranger followed 26year-old Janice Butler into a lift at Aintree Hospital Trust 's site in Walton , Liverpool , and asked her to push the button for his floor . |
| 28 | A black boy with extensions on his hair walked over to her and asked her to dance . |
| 29 | The Pizza Eater took on Rachaela , gave her a red dress and a pale green apron , and asked her to put up her hair . |
| 30 | Whilst Zborowski was still in the south of France Modigliani met Madame Zborowska in the street and asked her to pose for him . |