Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was known that , if Sunderland lost their game , then Bristol and Coventry needed only to draw against each other in order to stay in the First Division . |
| 2 | She swallowed a sob of pure terror at the memory and Penry jumped up to sit beside her on the bed . |
| 3 | The oven timer buzzed , and Adele moved over to attend to it ; Alina dug around inside her layers and brought out what looked like a colour postcard . |
| 4 | Paul and Nasey went in to work for you , so they got a wage from the start . ’ |
| 5 | He dumped them on the table by the scales , and Donaldson went over to sort through them . |
| 6 | Haig and Kendall seemed almost to droop as the adrenalin drained out of them . |
| 7 | The day drew on , and Tagan scouted ahead to look for a possible camping site . |
| 8 | The fellow shrugged and Athelstan tried not to concentrate on the great yellowing ulcer on the right side of his face , the pus now suppurating , bubbling out , staining his -cheek . |
| 9 | Rob , debonair and well-groomed ; the sunlight through stained glass making a coloured mosaic on the stone floor ; the music swelling as Heather , in ivory lace , arrived on her father 's arm , and Rob turning quickly to look at her , then watching her all the way down the aisle as she came towards him ; the hot prick of tears in Merrill 's eyes at the beautiful solemnity of the ceremony . |
| 10 | Shelley and Constance walked over to stand with them . |
| 11 | The tail showed more application than the top of the order , and when Lamb was run out for 113 Jarvis and Dilley batted well to put on 53 for the last wicket . |
| 12 | Diana and Charles stooped down to search through the clothes . |
| 13 | George and Bute set out to press for a policy of peace and lower taxes , which recognized the great strain the economy had been asked to bear . |
| 14 | Zach threw back the lid in triumph and the twins and George gathered round to look at the contents . |
| 15 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 16 | Keeper Mike Hooper had come to meet John Humphrey 's harmless through ball , but Nicol inadvertantly lifted it beyond him and Thorn followed up to head into the unguarded net . |
| 17 | Then it all went wrong for Hamilton , who dropped four strokes in four holes from the 11th as the chill wind began to take its toll and Davis romped away to win by five strokes . |
| 18 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |