Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led her inside and left her at one side of the room , walking softly away and stopping to face her at the other side . |
| 2 | Some crafty young entrepreneurs steamed in and relieved her of several pairs of Pumas at a knockdown price . |
| 3 | She was silent and acquiescent , however , so he climbed in and drove her round several blocks , just for the joy of it , taking the sharp corners so fast that her tyres shrieked in protest . |
| 4 | But he was the same as ever — just went in and did it in one take . |
| 5 | He placed a small amount of the substance in his hand and one by one the worshippers knelt down and licked it like hungry animals . |
| 6 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 7 | It put the wind up me , to tell you the truth , so I 've just brought Hawkbit along and left it at that . " |
| 8 | ‘ If I came along and accused you of sharp practice , you 'd be righteously indignant . |
| 9 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 10 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 11 | I sat him up , took him outside and injected him with some dangerously powerful drugs . |
| 12 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 13 | He pulled the sheets aside and led us down some steps . |
| 14 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |
| 15 | She , no she , cos she 'd s what , he 'd done his business pel pissed off and left her in this house and she did n't even know . |
| 16 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 17 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 18 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 19 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
| 20 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 21 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 22 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 23 | He lifted her up and perched her on one of the kitchen stools , then filled the kettle . |
| 24 | When Mrs Thatcher first came into power , she got hold of the pound note , held it up and tore it in half and then tore it into a quarter , and she said this is what the pound 's worth under the Labour government . |
| 25 | The heavy door frame caused it some minor difficulty , which it overcame with a swing of its shoulders that tore the timber out and tossed it to one side . |
| 26 | on in , in , in the laminates alright well when they took the windscreen out and replaced it with this one it 's only since then that repair |
| 27 | Then he suddenly went up on his toes and both hands flashed out and clipped me on both cheeks . |
| 28 | I dragged it out and did it from that . |
| 29 | But he pulled her back and leaned her against another tree . |
| 30 | But one lad messed about and pushed it through those holes . |