Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he 'd sort of had a well I suppose he 'd messed around helped and played about in the smithy . |
| 2 | ‘ I have had a long chat with Stephen and told him I know that he is knocking at the door of the full international side , but I would rather he played and helped out in the match at Tannadice than did nothing at Ibrox . ’ |
| 3 | Then he turned and went out in the garden again , closing the door behind him . |
| 4 | Walter sighed and lay back in the chair . |
| 5 | She sighed and sat down in the window seat . |
| 6 | When the horses , being bridled to lead them to safety , panicked and lashed out in the dark , threatening to do worse harm to the buildings than the wind would , it was his father who forced his way between them and dragged out the pair who were causing most trouble . |
| 7 | I just slumped and sat down in the mud and dirt . |
| 8 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 9 | But out he went and plopped down in the rough surrounding the green until , finally , a marshal suggested that he might be trespassing . |
| 10 | The data would be sent to a computer and , as with telephone calls , logged , costed and sent out in the form of a periodic bill . |
| 11 | He squealed and rolled over in the sand , kicking frantically , as a rabbit does in a snare . |
| 12 | The Thames barges , built of living wood that gave and sprang back in the face of the wind , were as much at home as anything on the river . |
| 13 | But it sprawled and flailed round in the small room and I suddenly realized it was going to attack me . |