Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly a baffling puzzle for Holmes , I agree , but it shows what the fever to own books , or just to have them around to consult , may drive someone to do . |
| 2 | You can ask at your branch for the balance on your account , or even find it out using one of your bank 's automated machines . |
| 3 | It did not occur to her to strip her bed down and change the sheets , or even to pull them back to see if there were any more where that one came from . |
| 4 | Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it . |
| 5 | But , one of things that we are discovering is that when people complain about drafts er , we 've been switching the air conditioning up and down to balance it up to suit the individuals needs . |
| 6 | and just hold them up to light you quite welcome to do so . |
| 7 | It seems likely that his preoccupation with her promisingly clever older sister , Jenny ( Jane Alice ) , caused unhappiness in May 's childhood and further spurred her on to succeed in the practical arts . |
| 8 | Slip the blade tip under this , and carefully prise it out to reveal the back of the embryo bud as a tiny swollen area . |
| 9 | Join up the bottom of the h to make a b , and then flip it over to make the d , the p and the q . |
| 10 | He cuts the tenon shoulders one at a time , and then lines them up to make a final pass if necessary . |
| 11 | Tiller waited until her younger sister was capable of putting over a song and dance , and then sent them off touring the country as a double act . |
| 12 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 13 | They prowled across the soft carpet in their elegant high-heeled shoes , and then kicked them off to lounge seductively on the four-poster bed . |
| 14 | After her fifth or sixth toke she was down to the end of the joint and a couple of the dried seeds exploded like miniature fireworks , making her jump and then starting her off giggling . |
| 15 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |
| 16 | Or sometimes if they 're not sure I 'll say Well before we book it can you just have a run round the house and then ring me back tell me actually what there is to go . |
| 17 | He scrutinised the picture and then turned it over to study the postmark , or possibly , thought Lydia , to read the message . |
| 18 | I was going to blast a couple and then string them up to scare the others . |
| 19 | ‘ I have it on good authority that when Satan left , Christ did it but then changed them back to show he would not be tempted to eat . |