Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 4 | Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
| 8 | Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office . |
| 9 | The last read her a lecture , told her he would not disoblige her father by employing her , and turned her out in the street like an errant daughter . |
| 10 | Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt . |
| 11 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 12 | Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror . |
| 13 | George slipped off his Burberry and hung it up in the hall cupboard . |
| 14 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 15 | There were some faded letters but she was n't interested in those and shoved them back in the tin , unopened . |
| 16 | Then we clad and ran off home then we went back mishchifing again we came to a boy and shoved he down in the grass and piched is sweet and then we ran off then I made a apple bom then I chudet it then we went home . |
| 17 | She slid her fingers from her friend 's grasp and pulled herself up in the bed , a smile lighting up the ageing beauty of her face . |
| 18 | In this paper we shall argue that the Act must be understood in terms of themes , issues , developments and conflicts that emerged in the 1970s , and worked themselves out in the 1980s . |
| 19 | And he stood over him while Philip picked them all up and packed them back in the drawer . |
| 20 | Murray reached for the mop but Richard pulled it away and squeezed it out in the bucket as he had seen the maids do . |
| 21 | He turned round again and propped himself up in the bed . |
| 22 | When the old publican went off his head and shut himself up in the snug with an ex-War Department Verey pistol , and shot distress signals through the serving hatch at anyone who came near ? ’ |
| 23 | Now , as if suddenly aware of the morning chill , he closed the top half of the door , drove home the bolt , then came and stretched himself out in the armchair opposite her . |
| 24 | She screwed the lid back on to the bottle and replaced it back in the cabinet . |
| 25 | He surrounded her and wrapped her up in the folds of his silence , his mystery . |
| 26 | IRENE Boyd took the minutes when our branch held a staff meeting and typed them out in the following verse : |
| 27 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 28 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 29 | I perfected the technique of entering my bedsit without anyone hearing me or noticing me , but eventually it became impossible to stay there ad infinitum without paying my rent , so I took all my military kit and some clothes and set myself up in the changing room at the barracks . |
| 30 | Then from his own pocket he drew another , rather the same but very much shinier , and held it out in the palm of his hand . |