Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point Sergeant Aitken came in and muttered something in the Inspector 's ear . |
| 2 | Extract 1 A : so if there 's a hardware store we could call in and get one on the way back B : do you think there is one A : yes B : OK then * A : that would be nice would n't it ? |
| 3 | However , there is always the remote possibility that you might run down and injure someone in the water , which could cost you as much as £100,000 ! |
| 4 | He turned the bag upside down and dumped everything onto the floor , and then he did the same for the drawers and for the wardrobe . |
| 5 | It appeared to be feeding normally and showed none of the obvious signs of illness . |
| 6 | The shocked driver assumed that he had run over and killed someone on the line , but on investigation there was no injured person to be found . |
| 7 | Then they ran outside and carried everything into the kitchen — their chickens , their fishing things . |
| 8 | He wants to get out of that office , get out into the areas , find out what is going on and do something about the problem , or I will kick his backside for him . |
| 9 | The boffins down at War-U-Like have invented a new toy ; a high-powered supa-dupa combat aircraft that can outfly and outblast anything in the air , and make a bigger noise doing it . |
| 10 | Perhaps we would fling pride aside and ask someone for the price of a cup of tea , actually intending to spend it on that . |
| 11 | and she 's never rung up and said anything about the shirts and trousers , |
| 12 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 13 | A drive that is ‘ unaware ’ of how it is set up and knows nothing of the way it 's data is stored . |
| 14 | I thought he were gon na forget that , I thought I should of got up and told everybody at the front |
| 15 | He was wrong there , having misjudged the mood of Londoners , because even those who were completely bombed out and had nothing except the clothes they stood up in , nearly all came back again when the bombing eased off and they could find a roof to cover them . |
| 16 | Normally he 's quite happy to go out and grab someone from the street . |
| 17 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 18 | He went there and back and do nothing to the people bol er er involved , being consulted and we 've had that going on for two years no consultation here has taken place with the people who it affects and there 's nothing in your motion to say it will . |
| 19 | We could go out tomorrow and get one in the market . " |
| 20 | can if you want , in the it 's not that far to go around and use one for the whole day . |
| 21 | Then I walk out of here and see something in the paper and I 'm right back there . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Litmus was quite certain he had n't and knew none of the other teachers had either . |
| 23 | The poachers used stones to frighten their rabbits into the net , walking about and rattling one against the other . |
| 24 | ‘ And yet to have been there and heard none of the holy words which we should naturally have listened for from those lips at such a time — how distressing ! ’ |
| 25 | Go round and ask everybody in the area . |