Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet .
2 The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion .
3 I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa .
4 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 .
5 The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days .
6 ‘ This way , ’ she said firmly , and plunged off into a perfumery hall of gleaming marble , as lush as some Byzantine church .
7 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 . ’
8 ‘ I 'll get undressed , ’ she muttered and stalked off behind a bush .
9 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 .
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things .
14 Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished .
15 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 .
16 The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table .
20 The two boys picked up their pints and moved over to a couple of chairs by the fire , just vacated by an elderly couple .
21 So I told the machine what it was about , and moved on to a golfer and one of the Black and White minstrels . ’
22 Jacqueline had given birth to Tommy 's daughter and moved in with a man called Steve Branch , who was living on Mill Farm Close .
23 I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me .
24 The character , the flamboyance is being f—ed and sucked out of a business that traditionally thrives on the outrageous .
25 In March 1992 , a questionnaire was sent out to all of the Society 's exchange partners in the hope that records could be updated and entered on to a database .
26 He wanted to be picked up and wrung out like a floor cloth to get the stuff out of his system .
27 Some of the borders are designed to be cut out and appliquéd on to a host fabric , while others are an integral part of a plain background material .
28 He got up and padded into the living room and peered out through a chink in the blackout curtains .
29 Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea .
30 We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines .
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