Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She said I 'd have to pay the full amount or put it back in the freezer , ’ said Mr Parker , of York . |
| 2 | Britain 's top twenty girls fought or flowed it out in the championships over the weekend … the big prize for them this season is a place at the Olympics … only two girls can go … the competition is made up of four disciplines rope … hoop … ball and clubs … |
| 3 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 4 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 5 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you see or hear anything later in the night ? ’ |
| 7 | It was a sensation to me , a novice , but the experienced experimentalist learns the tricks of the trade , knows what mistakes to avoid and when weird things happen tries to investigate or to file them away in the memory — just in case . |
| 8 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 9 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 10 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 11 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 12 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 13 | By choosing to investigate the ideas behind Magritte 's art , Sylvester 's discussion of important pictures such as ‘ The Annunciation ’ or ‘ The Rape ’ is fragmented and spread over different chapters , an irritation aggravated by the publishers who have failed to give plate references to the illustrations and cite them appropriately in the text . |
| 14 | Insert needle again in the lower stitch and bring it out in the next stitch to the left ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 15 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 16 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 17 | Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother . |
| 18 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 19 | At the same time , you wanted to grab Connie Fraser , and send her out in the country with a medical man to say she could n't talk to the law . |
| 20 | To apply for supplementary pension get leaflet SB 1 from the post office , fill in your name and address , sign it and send it off in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 21 | Dr Gray does , however , advise people to take chips out of the frying pan , when possible , and cook them instead in the oven , so reducing their fat content . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Deveraugh , ’ she said , shaping the words with lips flattened by barely suppressed rage , ‘ you will turn this boat around , right now , and head us back in the direction of the rafts . ’ |
| 23 | So I followed you over , and found you here in the cottage . |
| 24 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 25 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 26 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 27 | The victim-to-be purchases , or is given , the W.N.B. and places it unsuspectingly in the top pocket of his or her jacket , with the humorous head protruding . |
| 28 | Stubbly paused for a moment , then rocked forward on his heels and prodded me gently in the chest with a forefinger . |
| 29 | So then I began to be really pretty busy with running the office and then keeping my home , but I 'd got a husband who was very , very , handy and helped me out in the home you know . |
| 30 | Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year . |