Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By choosing to investigate the ideas behind Magritte 's art , Sylvester 's discussion of important pictures such as ‘ The Annunciation ’ or ‘ The Rape ’ is fragmented and spread over different chapters , an irritation aggravated by the publishers who have failed to give plate references to the illustrations and cite them appropriately in the text . |
| 5 | Insert needle again in the lower stitch and bring it out in the next stitch to the left ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 6 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 7 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 8 | Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother . |
| 9 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 10 | At the same time , you wanted to grab Connie Fraser , and send her out in the country with a medical man to say she could n't talk to the law . |
| 11 | To apply for supplementary pension get leaflet SB 1 from the post office , fill in your name and address , sign it and send it off in the pre-paid envelope . |
| 12 | Dr Gray does , however , advise people to take chips out of the frying pan , when possible , and cook them instead in the oven , so reducing their fat content . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Deveraugh , ’ she said , shaping the words with lips flattened by barely suppressed rage , ‘ you will turn this boat around , right now , and head us back in the direction of the rafts . ’ |
| 14 | So I followed you over , and found you here in the cottage . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 17 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 18 | The victim-to-be purchases , or is given , the W.N.B. and places it unsuspectingly in the top pocket of his or her jacket , with the humorous head protruding . |
| 19 | Stubbly paused for a moment , then rocked forward on his heels and prodded me gently in the chest with a forefinger . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year . |
| 22 | He only came to the Sahara to get a sun-tan and lose weight , so that he can put on his dark glasses and show himself off in the bars back home . ’ |
| 23 | They put us back into a van and let us out in the street . |
| 24 | I said , and looking her straight in the eye , I asked : ‘ Why is everybody picking on me ? |
| 25 | To which and looking him straight in the face , she had answered , ‘ Do n't count on it , ever . ’ |
| 26 | A second very late gene , p10 , which is responsible for the synthesis of a non-structural protein , has been successfully utilized to express foreign proteins either by replacing the resident p10 gene ( 5 , 6 ) or by duplicating the p10 promoter and inserting it elsewhere in the AcNPV genome , eg , in proximity to the ph gene site ( 4 ) . |
| 27 | Worst of all , some tiles are inaccessible without forming a bridge with others — think on your toes and pair them off in the right order , or it 's back to the beginning . |
| 28 | We shared our resources for lunch — the girls ' picnic sandwiches and a cold pie and some fruit I had bought that morning — and ate it comfortably in the cottage kitchen , with its grandstand view of the bay . |
| 29 | She threw the mess after him and then thought , I 'm cracking up , and retrieved it and buried it deep in the refuse bin . |
| 30 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |