Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 33 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 34 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 37 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 38 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 39 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 40 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 41 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 42 | He straightened up and gazed anxiously over the end of the bed at her . |
| 43 | He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes . |
| 44 | He puffed furiously on his pipe and gazed dreamily at the ceiling . |
| 45 | You 've a gift for this sort of thing , ’ declared Susan , as she sat down by the fire and gazed appreciatively round the room . |
| 46 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 47 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 48 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 49 | She grew bored , and gazed out of the window , at the fading winter light and the fluttering descent of the snow . |
| 50 | Iris yawned , put her hands behind her head and gazed out of the window . |
| 51 | With a hesitant smile she turned away from him , and sipped what was left of her champagne and gazed out of the window . |
| 52 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 53 | Cornelius drew the curtains and gazed out upon the day . |
| 54 | With some deliberation , he withdrew his arms from under the bedclothes and gazed tiredly at the backs of his hands . |
| 55 | ‘ So am I. ’ Heather turned again to the opening and gazed hard over the fields to where the spirals of smoke were rising behind the bushes . |
| 56 | Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling . |
| 57 | I nodded and gazed adoringly across the table at those dark , passionate eyes . |
| 58 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 59 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 60 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |