Example sentences of "[pron] and [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the building is thought to be a temple , however , the stone axe may well be interpreted as having been picked up by someone and deliberately buried within the temple in the Roman period as an offering to the gods . |
| 2 | Back with the dancers , Humphreys peeled off all his clothes , started playing with himself and finally urinated on the dance-floor . |
| 3 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 4 | She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence … |
| 5 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 6 | And perhaps , she decided , being realistic , as long as she did not let things go too far it would do her no harm to stop trying to resist them and simply go with the flow of her feelings for a while . |
| 7 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 8 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 9 | However , most boards tended to extract material when it suited them and rarely adhered to the time-scale or suggestions for different kinds of activity . |
| 10 | The initial setting up could be carried out by them and then circularised to the nearest branches some time before September in order for the most capable branch to make an offer for the franchise . |
| 11 | For some time she looked round the garden for them and then went into the house . |
| 12 | They both glanced behind them and then moved into the coloured shadows of the necromancer 's storeroom . |
| 13 | They are rubbed with salt to dry cure them and then coated with a mixture of spices , including juniper , and molasses , which is mainly responsible for the black appearance of the ham . |
| 14 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 15 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 16 | Our fathers slept with their Browning Army-issue pistols beside them and sometimes rushed into the starry African night , blazing away at burglars we never saw . |
| 17 | Type such notes on one side of the paper and limit them to three or four sheets which can be laid out in front of you and not moved during the programme . |
| 18 | And when you 're about to complete the C C Q you must make it clear that the information given to you and subsequently transferred to the C C Q is in strictest confidence . |
| 19 | crazy manoeuvres to nip in front of you and then drive like a snail ! |
| 20 | Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record ? |
| 21 | all they 're doing is erm , where people do it on a Saturday they , they wo n't do their , go football or something and then go on a Sunday , now I think it 's nice to have a , a day when nothing happens . |
| 22 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 23 | And if Germany is destined to become one and inevitably rise to a position of leadership in Europe , let us seriously consider the sceptics ' view that it should at least not happen in our generation . |
| 24 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 25 | She went inside for her briefcase and Steve gave her a thoughtful look as she passed him and then polished off the remains of his champagne in one gulp . |
| 26 | Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences . |
| 27 | She seemed insubstantial , fleshless , a long way off , — while the kitchen seemed to close in on him and then recede to the accompaniment of a thumping in his head like a primitive drumbeat . |
| 28 | Cleo glanced up at him and then rose from the bed . |
| 29 | Her huge blue eyes pleaded with him and then darkened at the flagrant desire in his expression . |
| 30 | It gave her a strange feeling of things being right there inside her and yet projected at the same time at a distance away from her . |