Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken one hand from the wheel and held it up in protest . |
| 2 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 3 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 4 | The unarmed man then produced a buff-coloured plastic ID card and held it up in front of Vasili . |
| 5 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 6 | Then he nodded at Benny who took the hammer and brought it back over his head , ready to smash it down on to the cartridge at a sign from his brother . |
| 7 | There was a warning glitter of laughter in his eyes , and casually he dropped his cigar to the terrace and ground it out under his heel , then moved a fraction closer to her . |
| 8 | This man 's joy at his team 's win greatly tempered his reaction at being jabbed in the chest by a vigorous old Irish American , but even he had to retaliate when Uncle Mick pulled his cap down over his eyes and shoved him back in his seat . |
| 9 | Claudia closed her eyes and gave herself up to sheer sensation . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps this will jog your memory ! ’ he warned , and with an economy of movement had taken her seat and pulled her down across his knees . |
| 11 | It was a kind of loop and roll that dodged the pursuing aircraft and brought you up behind it . |
| 12 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 13 | He twisted a bathrobe belt around her neck and forced her on to a bed before raping her twice in July 1991 . |
| 14 | Her hands stole up his chest , then to his shoulders , and finally she clasped them behind his neck and gave herself up to the pleasure of the kiss . |
| 15 | Sam popped several coloured capsules into his mouth and washed them down with another slug of firewater . |
| 16 | It was Marian who picked up a broken cross-bow from the debris piled about on the roof and held it out to Allen . |
| 17 | I baited a 6 's hook to 6lb b.s. line paternostered on a 1½ oz bomb with half a lobworm and sent it out to the marker . |
| 18 | She made herself a sandwich and a cup of tea and carried them along to her workroom . |
| 19 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 20 | Jack thought to himself as he poured yet another cup of tea and took it back to his comfortable swivel chair . |
| 21 | George poured out her tea and took it in to her . |
| 22 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 23 | A correspondent for Cornhill Magazine , who claimed that in order to gain an inside understanding of ‘ The Science of Garotting ’ he had visited an experienced convict in his cell and offered himself up as a guinea-pig victim , described the main elements of this ‘ most inclement ruffianism that ever disgraced a nineteenth century ’ . |
| 24 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 26 | THE EBDG group 's chairman , Paul Bennetts , has welcomed the Commons vote and followed it up with a plea to quickly rejoin the ERM . |
| 27 | He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth . |
| 28 | Culley took change from a ten pound note from the barman and passed it on to Stan , then carried the drinks over to the table where Kelso was sitting . |
| 29 | The conference decided the problems of ‘ functionally complex ’ compounds needed further study and referred it back to the commission . |
| 30 | She spoke rather absently for she was remembering a vase of stiff-looking artificial flowers of an unknown species , seen fleetingly in a funeral director 's window , which now overlaid her memory of the bright Kensington shops and brought her back to the reality of her life in North London . |