Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 2 | One Saturday a woman came in and took me to a big room where there was another woman with two children . |
| 3 | Mr Wilbraham , together with one of the Tace managers Don Hammond ( managing director , components ) , and James Carr ( now finance director ) stepped in and acquired them for a consideration of £4m . |
| 4 | He rushed in and threw himself into a chair . |
| 5 | I was getting caught up in the rat race and thin round the edges spiritually , when the Lord stepped in and reminded me of a promise He made before we left Kent . |
| 6 | Seeing him kissing you , I felt such a murderous rage that I wanted to storm in and beat him to a pulp . |
| 7 | The medal was handed to her on a velvet cushion and she bent down and hung it on a little hook with which we had each been provided on arrival . |
| 8 | In pure reaction from terror he broke down and wept himself into a deep , swooning sleep as soon as he was alone with his blessed candle ; but when he awoke strangely refreshed and heartened he had his wits again , and could reason about his escape . |
| 9 | Every mouthful made me heave , but I forced it down and chased it with a second one bought by Malc . |
| 10 | He squatted down and propped it against a clump of little bushes , pulling up the aerial as far as it would go . |
| 11 | I wrote it all down and gave it to a solicitor . |
| 12 | The serjeant-at-arms , hidden behind the guard of his conical helmet , dragged me down and pushed me into a chamber where a candle glowed in the darkness . |
| 13 | It was an old town , its wealth based on brewing before the Second World War came along and transformed it into a steel and munitions centre . |
| 14 | I got my part of the control lines together and carried them in a loop round to the kite . |
| 15 | Then he clipped the pages together and slipped them into a file . |
| 16 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 17 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 18 | Still trembling , she got out finally and wrapped herself in a huge towel and padded into the kitchen to put the kettle on . |
| 19 | A man pulled him backwards and pushed him against a wall . |
| 20 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 21 | But then you rushed off and left me without a chance to say the most important thing of all … ’ |
| 22 | Chéron took it off and replaced it with a poem by Baudelaire , considering that he had elevated the tone . |
| 23 | At the end of spawning I had over 20 eggs plastered to the sides of the aquarium , so I took a razor blade and carefully scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub in their own aquarium water . |
| 24 | Once again I scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub . |
| 25 | We tried tooth and nail and finally impaled it on a thorn tree , tugging at it until the branch flew off and hurtled us into a ditch . |
| 26 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
| 27 | Little pests until then though , scuffling and squabbling , paddling their bare feet in the sewage channels , hanging about the shop doorways for warmth and anything else they could manage to lay a hand on before the baker or the pork butcher , both mighty men , sallied forth and scattered them like a flock of starlings . |
| 28 | He greeted them briskly and folded himself into a chair . |
| 29 | Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase . |
| 30 | Charging pensioners and children for medical prescriptions picked that one up and dropped it like a hot potato and charging for hospital treatment and why so why not do a U-turn on on this one ? |