Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 2 | His players respected and loved him as a result . |
| 3 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 4 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 5 | There the bailiffs pushed and shoved me through a porticoed entrance , down a long , dark , musty passageway into the main well of the court , fastening me to the bar ; beyond it sat the three magistrates before a square table ringed by clerks . |
| 6 | Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln . |
| 7 | This brings a feeling of emptiness that can never be filled and leaves us with a hunger for more . |
| 8 | Make sure the macaroni is well drained and place it in a bowl along with the celery , onion , parsley , green and red peppers , salts and pepper . |
| 9 | And best of all , the Royston , Hertfordshire-based company has simply taken technology that it has already developed and used it in a creative way , which means the newspaper should be relatively cheap — no pricing was available , however , as the firm builds bespoke systems to suit a customers individual needs . |
| 10 | For instance , does your " off-the-street " procedure for dealing with enquiries make the prospective clients feel wanted , well treated and leave them with an impression of an efficient , sympathetic firm capable of providing an expeditious service ? |
| 11 | IBM Corp and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp were yesterday due to launch their joint venture to market systems for duplicating audio compact disk recordings in retail stores : the idea is that record companies could eliminate the need to press hundreds of thousands of copies of major recordings — instead the store would tap into central databases at each record company to collect the tracks requested and record them onto a blank disk ; although no pilot systems have yet been launched , IBM said the system also could be used to make and sell computer software and video games on demand ; the IBM-Blockbuster system is expected to be designed to distribute albums in original form , rather than enabling customers to mix and match their choice of tracks , and negotiations are reportedly already under way with several record companies ; a typical CD would take about six minutes to make , complete with the glossy packaging buyers expect . |
| 12 | Alternatively , you could decorate the order of service , if one was printed , or even write out the words of one of the hymns used and frame it with a selection of the pressed flowers . |
| 13 | If , a week ago , someone had told her it might happen to her she would have laughed and treated it as a huge joke . |
| 14 | And her suppliant 's face , round and even in this twilight , thickly flushed in the hectic way that he had seen before , repulsed him and made him take her by the arm she had raised and move it like a detached limb back to her side . |
| 15 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 16 | Then , after the old guy has examined , weighed and wrapped it in a turquoise napkin , we get our gold , in little ingots the size of collar studs . |
| 17 | The " Balham Group " was expelled and formed itself into a Communist League . |
| 18 | White peace descended and surrounded her like a tent of cool white gauze . |
| 19 | Ken Russell took the removal of restraint and stiff-upper-lip repression that American finance had encouraged and turned it into a distinctive aesthetic style . |
| 20 | The Earl of Salisbury , director of government intelligence ( and chief minister of the realm ) , infiltrated and masterminded it as a timely and much-needed device to make permanent the rule of the same monarch and régime . |
| 21 | But the residents resisted and formed themselves into a community association and negotiated with the council to save their homes . |
| 22 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 23 | Once , in a moment of despair , he snapped his Bible shut and squashed them to a paste . |
| 24 | THE woman juror whose looks prompted a man to wolf-whistle at her in court yesterday said she was secretly flattered and took it as a compliment . |
| 25 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 26 | Yeoman described and illustrated it in an article in the Gentleman 's Magazine in March 1748 , and is known to have erected one at Northampton . |
| 27 | In reading this book , you will find that the various research methods are described and explained one at a time . |