Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet .
2 Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ .
3 The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament .
4 We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau .
5 In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy .
6 She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky .
7 She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more .
8 She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky .
9 Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista .
10 Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields .
11 When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command .
12 She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees .
13 He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains .
14 The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk .
15 A delicately ludicrous picture comes into Howard 's mind of an enthusiastic little hiker with a rucksack on his back , trying to walk up the side of the Matterhorn , and tumbling back with an astonished look on his face .
16 Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway .
17 Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck .
18 Sergeant Joe finished his warming whisky , shook hands with Mr Singleton , took hold of his carpet-bag , and limped out of the cosy , club-like atmosphere of Hennessey 's .
19 Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side .
20 It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast .
21 Should you decide to stick to sherry and branch out into the heavier aloroso you will have a thick head tomorrow and we will have an entertaining evening . ’
22 Tom had meanwhile dug up his turnips , and set to work hedging , digging ditches and helping out with the other farms , when the extra labour was needed .
23 Carson ran up the brick steps to the courtyard 's wooden side-door , rattling the bolt free and stepping out into the narrow alley that ran down the side of the house .
24 We have been asked to give that up and to go over to the European Community system , with the European Court and majority voting — the shoe is pinching all the time .
25 We carried a medical team with vehicles and back up for the medical team .
26 They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd .
27 They handed people , patients , on to each other , they were known and sought out by the desperate among both clergy and laity .
28 Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones .
29 A disconsolate group of climbers sitting round a kitchen table all lean forward and peer out at the iron-grey clouds rumbling past .
30 Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage .
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