Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb -s] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I dictate and Cats scribbles away and bashes out the replies on the word processor kindly loaned to us by the theatre .
2 Suppose that I am sitting by a bowl of fruit ; my hand hovers over a pear , then a peach catches my eye ; their distinctive favours revive in memory and pull against each other , then my hand moves over and picks out the peach .
3 However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view .
4 It pulls up and rounds out the corners of its mouth , and chomps its teeth together rapidly in an obsequious manner , as if it is saying : ‘ Do n't hurt me , I 'm only a baby ! ’
5 So the plan for the afternoon is , it 's now five to four so if David goes out and tidies up the hut .
6 Sleepily a hand reaches out and picks up the receiver .
7 He clucks his tongue again and picks up the script .
8 And the manager goes round and switches out the lights , if there 's anybody there they kick them out .
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