Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 2 | Thank you very much and thank you for a very well . |
| 3 | To order , please complete the coupon below and send it with a UK cheque/PO ( not cash ) to : Esquire Hip-flask Offer , Offer Number 5 and/or Esquire Binoculars Offer , Offer Number 6 , PO Box 6 , Kettering , Northants NN15 5JW . |
| 4 | Complete the coupon below and send it with a cheque/postal order made payable to Gardeners ' World Soakerhose Offer . |
| 5 | He had what seemed to me a great genius for — how can I put it ? — drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument . |
| 6 | But in the UK more than 90 per cent of all aluminium cans are still thrown away — collect yours together and take them to a scrap-metal dealer . |
| 7 | What he had n't counted on was the tunnel effect of putting five together and pointing them into a wind that came more or less straight from the Urals after turning left over Norway . |
| 8 | I got my part of the control lines together and carried them in a loop round to the kite . |
| 9 | While the concept of enriching teaching through the use of various and varied media , was clearly sound , there was no technology available to draw the ingredients of multimedia together and unify them with a single , practical teaching resource . |
| 10 | Then he clipped the pages together and slipped them into a file . |
| 11 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 12 | ‘ He will hear a tune on a programme and go away and play it on a keyboard . |
| 13 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 14 | Still trembling , she got out finally and wrapped herself in a huge towel and padded into the kitchen to put the kettle on . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister will brandish his meaningless majority after the Division tonight and claim it as a mandate for Maastricht . |
| 16 | As he leapt to the attack again , he uttered a hoarse , nerve-shattering scream , the purpose of which was to startle his opponent momentarily and distract him for a fatal fraction of time . |
| 17 | We talked of all we would do when he was strong enough , and I put everything else out of mind and concentrated on being positive and cheerful myself , which was not always easy but I was determined to behave normally and to treat him as a convalescent and not as a sick man . |
| 18 | A man pulled him backwards and pushed him against a wall . |
| 19 | However , it might be useful to admit the document as an aid to interpretation and publish it ( with appropriate amendments ) along with the Act or even to re-work it more fundamentally and present it as a formal preamble . |
| 20 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 21 | go in a hall somewhere and have it for a day . |
| 22 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 23 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |
| 24 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
| 25 | She can listen to TV tunes once and play them on a piano with one hand and on an accordion with the other . |
| 26 | Little pests until then though , scuffling and squabbling , paddling their bare feet in the sewage channels , hanging about the shop doorways for warmth and anything else they could manage to lay a hand on before the baker or the pork butcher , both mighty men , sallied forth and scattered them like a flock of starlings . |
| 27 | He greeted them briskly and folded himself into a chair . |
| 28 | She scraped them carefully and put them in a steel pan , covering them with the bottled still water in which they would be boiled , thereby retaining the vitamin C which would otherwise have been poured down the sink . |
| 29 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 30 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |