Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 3 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 4 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mounted knights struggled across two abreast , and plunged immediately into a marsh . |
| 7 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 8 | ‘ This way , ’ she said firmly , and plunged off into a perfumery hall of gleaming marble , as lush as some Byzantine church . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ; |
| 11 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 12 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll get undressed , ’ she muttered and stalked off behind a bush . |
| 14 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 15 | You might compare , for instance , a real letter from 1740 with one of the letters in Richardson 's novel Pamela ( published 1740 , and made up of a sequence of imitation letters ) . |
| 16 | Burglars entered a house in Harrison Terrace , Darlington , on Saturday evening and made off with a man 's gold watch valued at £100 and two bottles of whisky . |
| 17 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
| 18 | He nodded , then turned and rode away at a canter . |
| 19 | I managed to pass behind some tall screens on which those ridiculously huge contemporary paintings , works of the utmost nullity , were hung , and crept cautiously round a group of cranky statues . |
| 20 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 21 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 22 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 23 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 24 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 25 | Weeks of floating had made her fat and idle , but she flipped into the waves and swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers , raising a snowstorm of foam . |
| 26 | ‘ And built just like a jukebox , I 'll bet . ’ |
| 27 | The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come . |
| 28 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 29 | In gale force winds , and weighed down by a camera around her neck , she just missed bringing us back a prize but she managed to capture some winning shots . |
| 30 | By the time you 've finished , if you are n't the best of mates and invited down for a vair long weekend in the cuntrair , I can only say — Air nair . |