Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 2 | This work is being designed by the Regional Council 's landscape consultants , the Turnbull-Jeffrey Partnership and carried out under a series of contracts aimed at completion by Spring 1988 . |
| 3 | Eventually we made our way back to the terrace and sat down on a bank . |
| 4 | The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come . |
| 5 | As the teacher looked , Belle opened her eyes and sat up with a radiant smile . |
| 6 | The reviewer of the programme in Sydsvenska Dagbladet the next day drew a parallel with ‘ the horrible murder and cutting up of a prostitute , Catrin da Costa , in Stockholm a couple of years ago ’ . |
| 7 | They encourage the children to imagine what it 's like to be a character in the play — one of two twins who are separated in a shipwreck and thrown up on a beach on a strange island . |
| 8 | The first came in 1977–8 against Australia and he began with fifties in his first three innings , only to join the Packer brigade and miss out for a couple of years . |
| 9 | Crossly , he came out of the bushes and searched around for a dock leaf . |
| 10 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 11 | They returned to the warehouse and stood back as a boy carrying a sheet of glass under his arm came down the stairs . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'll be delighted to have a break and go off for a pint . |
| 13 | Then you 'd get a bunch of compulsory emigrants , once in a while , Indians or Chinese , all wearing identical pyjamas and shuffling along in a crowd . |
| 14 | Council workmen checking for land subsidence found the horrible remains close to the tunnel 's mouth and ran off in a panic to raise the alarm with their screams . |
| 15 | One day they 'll make a big killing , quit the rackets and settle down to a respectable life in a new town . |
| 16 | Then they pawed the ground like a circus pony , held their arms above their heads and twirled round like a gyroscope , and finally did a bumps-a-daisy only from the front instead of the back . |
| 17 | You could no longer do the things I 'd taken for granted , like making a cup of tea and sitting down for a gossip when I came in from college . |
| 18 | On the first morning I woke up feeling great , like a kid , stretched my arms and thought , Now I 'll have a cup of tea and stroll out for a Then it hit me . " |
| 19 | Cut outer fabric and lining out with a 1.5cm ( ½in ) seam allowance . |
| 20 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 21 | The noise starts as a light tapping and builds up to a louder noise then stops suddenly . |
| 22 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 23 | Eventually , when he had slurped his way through the two cheeseburgers and large French fries , polished off an apple pie and a strawberry milkshake , he got out of the car and walked over to a litter-disposal unit . |
| 24 | She raised her hand as a dubious Herr Nordern forced the car into almost the right gear and drove off with a curious jerking motion , then turned and went into the Centre with a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path that day . |
| 25 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
| 26 | It twisted into an origami boat and sailed off towards a sewer inlet . |
| 27 | Colour half the fondant with yellow and a little orange food colouring to create a slightly marbled effect and roll out on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large circle . |
| 28 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 29 | Left-winger Darren Junee brilliantly slipped round his marker , James Reynolds , just before half-time and set off on a jinking run down the left wing . |
| 30 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |