Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University . |
| 2 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 3 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 4 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 5 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 6 | Nutty wound the window down and smiled in a civilized fashion . |
| 7 | They sat down and talked for a short time . |
| 8 | As I was putting the thermometer back in its case the calf suddenly toppled over and went into a frothing convulsion . |
| 9 | She walked on and came to a one-story building surrounded by a cordon of wire fencing . |
| 10 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 11 | Tam brushed against his leg in passing and Edward leaned down to pat him but Tam , replete , was staggering towards his favourite sleeping place by the cooker — he shrugged Edward 's hand off and collapsed with a noisy sigh . |
| 12 | Its benevolently smiling head fell off and bounced with a sickening crunch from the beam projector into another of the statues , knocking it off the deck of the float and into the canal . |
| 13 | ‘ It started as a short project for an article but the whole subject took off and turned into a major research field . ’ |
| 14 | When the cork is extracted the slush-like sediment shoots out of the bottle and , because the rest of the wine remaining in the bottle is at a much lower temperature than normal , the gas is reluctant to escape , hence there is no spray of foam and the bottle may be topped up and recorked with a minimal loss of pressure . |
| 15 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 16 | He stood up and went to a battered grey filing cabinet , rummaged through it , and grunted . |
| 17 | At this , the grandmother stood up and shuffled into a little hut-like concrete alcove , her bedroom , and emerged carrying something in a handkerchief . |
| 18 | Harvey helped me up and pointed to a concrete runway just below us . |
| 19 | He cried out and grabbed at a nearby wall to steady himself . |
| 20 | He threw his head back and laughed like a young and boisterous man , till the drops flashed from the clustering wet tendrils of his iron-grey hair . |
| 21 | He clasped and unclasped his wiry hands two or three times as though wringing out a rag , pulled his legs on to the bed , sat back and replied in a raucous whisper . |
| 22 | ‘ I just wandered around and watched for a few minutes , to see how things were done , ’ she said over her shoulder , stowing a small block of fresh Parmesan in an airtight container before putting it in the fridge . |
| 23 | Swan glided round and headed in a straight line towards the edge of the forest , and of course the vast cloud of smoke came hurtling after it . |