Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 32 | If they do so he grabs them by the neck and hauls them back to the fold . |
| 33 | The book traces his family history leading up to that midnight stroke and carries it through to the dark period of Mrs Gandhi 's emergency . |
| 34 | Should one of the fry slip from the nest the male will catch it in his mouth and spit it back into the nest . |
| 35 | I have never seen a player catch a football in his mouth and spit it back to his keeper before . |
| 36 | If she let it , the food would jump into her mouth and swell her up to grossness . |
| 37 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 38 | Sam popped several coloured capsules into his mouth and washed them down with another slug of firewater . |
| 39 | He was obviously embarrassed at his lack of preparedness and when he saw me glance involuntarily at my watch he grew more agitated , pulling his pipe from his mouth and putting it back in again , tucking the hammer under his arm , rummaging in a large box of matches . |
| 40 | It was Marian who picked up a broken cross-bow from the debris piled about on the roof and held it out to Allen . |
| 41 | ‘ I thought I 'd shoot a hole in their heads and mail 'em back to their bossman . ’ |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | She made herself a sandwich and a cup of tea and carried them along to her workroom . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Jack thought to himself as he poured yet another cup of tea and took it back to his comfortable swivel chair . |
| 46 | George poured out her tea and took it in to her . |
| 47 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 48 | That 's fine , now all we 've got to do is to tidy up this end of the halyard and tuck it out of the way . |
| 49 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 50 | The rise of the Greens had placed the SPD in a difficult position , in that any attempt to capture moderate votes might alienate existing party supporters and drive them over to the Greens . |
| 51 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 52 | Alternatively , use standard furnishing fabric and match it up to other furnishings in the room . |
| 53 | THE EBDG group 's chairman , Paul Bennetts , has welcomed the Commons vote and followed it up with a plea to quickly rejoin the ERM . |
| 54 | " Besides all this Tristan learned to ride nimbly with shield and lance , to spur his mount skilfully on either flank , put it to the gallop with dash , wheel and give it free rein and urge it on with his knees , in strict accordance with the chivalric art . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 58 | The conference decided the problems of ‘ functionally complex ’ compounds needed further study and referred it back to the commission . |
| 59 | We count the florid banknotes and hand them over across the desk . |
| 60 | Insert needle again in the lower stitch and bring it out in the next stitch to the left ( Fig. 2 ) . |