Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led her inside and left her at one side of the room , walking softly away and stopping to face her at the other side . |
| 2 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 3 | I sat him up , took him outside and injected him with some dangerously powerful drugs . |
| 4 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 5 | He pulled the sheets aside and led us down some steps . |
| 6 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 7 | He stirred a pot of paint , dipped a brush in the paint , bent forward and applied it in slow strokes to the sheet of card in front of him . |
| 8 | He put his arms on Myeloski 's shoulders , leant forward and kissed him on both cheeks . |