Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bent down to kiss her on the lips , and Folly felt her head start to swim again as she reached up to place her hand behind his neck , drawing him down . |
| 2 | ‘ Well then , you had better have one , ’ said Diana , and bent down to kiss him on the cheek . |
| 3 | The eyes flickered up to meet mine for a split second before returning to his notes . |
| 4 | Two men swam out to guide it towards a moored boat . |
| 5 | He came down to join her on the floor . |
| 6 | A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door . |
| 7 | The entry of Joanna , who came in to consult her about the drugs needed to replenish their stock , put an end to her melancholy reflections , and after they had decided Joanna said , ‘ When Ian comes round this evening I thought I 'd give him coffee or a drink in our sitting-room . |
| 8 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 9 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 10 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 11 | We came over to see you in the Glory . |
| 12 | The little man stood up and came over to join him at the fire . |
| 13 | Janice , from her vantage point , managed to catch the eye of a boy to whom she had spoken on the boat , and terrorized , fascinated , he responded to her insinuations and oglings and came over to ask her for the pleasure of her hand . |
| 14 | Knocker came over to serve them with a slightly worried look on his face . |
| 15 | ‘ And afterwards , Jean-Marie Balestre came over to congratulate me on a fantastic race . |
| 16 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 17 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 18 | And having destroyed him , it was this other side of the ambivalence that came back to haunt them as a sense of guilt and deferred obedience , and out of guilt , they instituted the incest , the incest prohibition . |
| 19 | So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend . |
| 20 | He said ‘ Bitch ! ’ audibly , then sprinted off leaving her in a state of stunned surprise . |
| 21 | Almost every afternoon when Charlie was at school he turned up to take him to the studio to rehearse with his band . |
| 22 | Lydia had barely set foot beyond the ashram in three years when Lorne turned up to kidnap her for a reconnaissance mission with him to Celebes island , eight hundred miles away to the north-east . |
| 23 | The actress swivelled round to face her in the doorway . |
| 24 | ‘ Too refined , ’ Julia explained didactically and pressed on to introduce him to the black and white humbug types labelled British Alpines , standing next to the skewbald variety called British Toggenbergs . |
| 25 | Ten minutes later the staff began to arrive and at nine o'clock Fred Workman walked in to introduce me to the staff and show me around the building . |
| 26 | The Princesse stepped in to defend her at every turn . |
| 27 | As soon as we received the tree preservation order we rushed down to pi-n i-t on the tree . |
| 28 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 29 | ( Amazing how quickly BR abandoned its scheme to close Marylebone when a scheme popped up to turn it into a kind of Victoria Coach Station for northern routes ! ) |
| 30 | They kindly squashed up to let us into the shelter , whereupon all conversation ceased . |