Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 2 | A DEAF woman with speech difficulties was stunned , sexually assaulted and stabbed repeatedly by a killer who got into the flat where she lived alone , a court was told yesterday . |
| 3 | Rose tells me he 's back and peacocking about as a vicar . ’ |
| 4 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 5 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 6 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |
| 7 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 8 | The animal has been surveyed and laid off like a map ; and the men have been classified in over thirty specialties and twenty rates of pay , from 16 cents to 50 cents an hour . |
| 9 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 10 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 11 | Mounted knights struggled across two abreast , and plunged immediately into a marsh . |
| 12 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 13 | ‘ This way , ’ she said firmly , and plunged off into a perfumery hall of gleaming marble , as lush as some Byzantine church . |
| 14 | The huge main doors were gilt over bronze and led out to a stairway that swept up to an entrance vestibule lined with Algerian onyx . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I 'd come and stay here for a bit . |
| 16 | My parents are going to France at Christmas and erm I do n't wan na go with them really and nor does Digby so he , Digby 's gon na come and stay just for a bit and my house it has to be empty and Foxy 's coming round to stay . |
| 17 | " Come and sit here for a bit . |
| 18 | My son would adore it — my comfort-loving daughter would work hard to achieve a ganglion before leaving and sit contentedly by a log fire for the duration with a good book and a hot Ribena . |
| 19 | Sometimes I go into a public-house and sit there with a glass of lemonade in my hand , eavesdropping , hoping to hear some treasonable conversation . |
| 20 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 21 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 22 | Life becomes crazy when I 'm recording Birds Of A Feather so I tend to organise working lunches and sit down in a restaurant to get my fuel . |
| 23 | What luxury to go and bathe there after a day in the outdoors ! |
| 24 | PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format : |
| 25 | In December 1940 , Wolverton Road Vehicle Shop undertook the construction of four Mobile Kitchens , on the lines of a container which could be lifted and placed either on a road trailer or lorry , or on a railway freight wagon — exactly the same idea as the container which the LMS developed pre-war for removing furniture directly from door to door . |
| 26 | Ngune was helped into the back of the van and placed gently on a palliasse with his head resting on a pillow . |
| 27 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |
| 28 | Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant . |
| 29 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 30 | It 's a mysterious , diablo-enhanced thing and fits snugly into an album that takes in pre-pop escapades like ‘ Hey Boots ’ and ‘ Eau Water ’ and then flits to the lilting balladry of ‘ Love In A Hollow Tree ’ which is capable of passing for Julian Cope on a clear day . |