Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn the lights down and gather round a roaring log fire , or log-effect on the electric heater if you 're in a smokeless zone . |
| 2 | Being a regular to the attractions of the Continent and its sunnier climes , I started by skimming through and picking out a few of the relatively recent crags that I have visited , such as Ceuse & Oppede le Vieux : they are in — fine . |
| 3 | She tore the tissue paper off and held up a little polythene envelope , with two silver fist-in-a-bag ear-rings inside . |
| 4 | Which Nick 's chewed up and spat out a Hula Hoop with water added . |
| 5 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 6 | I wish I could hang it up and put on a new one ’ . ’ |
| 7 | Someone got up and put on a Pink Floyd album . |
| 8 | Mrs Mantini straightened up and puffed out a last breath of her garlic-and-onion lunch . |
| 9 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 10 | So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases . |
| 11 | His account brings the whole city alive : the dry bones of the period are suddenly fleshed out and take on a recognizable human face . |
| 12 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 13 | Joanna nodded equably and Sophie got out and walked back a short distance . |
| 14 | Roll out and cut out a small door shape , and secure on to the bottom of the helter-skelter with a little water . |
| 15 | Rogers put them back and took out a New Testament . |
| 16 | Howard reached back and pulled out a double-barrelled shotgun . |
| 17 | Like most twiners , dodder exhibits either equal growth all around its cylindrical axis , which yields a relatively straight vine , or grows unequally , which allows it to coil around and climb up a linear object such as a host plant . |
| 18 | We 're racing round and cobbling up a makeshift plan . |