Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 2 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 3 | By contrast , the G cells are not detectable until 18 weeks of gestation and develop entirely within the anatomical antrum . |
| 4 | Ten minutes later he was down and seated across from a young duty captain as they travelled the fast-link that connected the City to the spaceport . |
| 5 | Neil teaches at the Guildhall School of Music in London and , like most of the artists listed here , teaches and plays regularly for the European Summer School of Arts and Languages at Oxford . |
| 6 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |
| 7 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 8 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 9 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 10 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 11 | " Sit here , near me , and let's be cosy … oh , well , perhaps just a touch , " she turned her eyes away from the bottle and gazed absently at the passing crowd until her glass was quite full . |
| 12 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 13 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 14 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 15 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 16 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 17 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 18 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 19 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 20 | A delicately ludicrous picture comes into Howard 's mind of an enthusiastic little hiker with a rucksack on his back , trying to walk up the side of the Matterhorn , and tumbling back with an astonished look on his face . |
| 21 | It was a prime-ministerial cabinet in all but name and plunged instantly into the economic blizzard which engulfed the new Labour administration and with which , initially , it coped so inadequately . |
| 22 | However , as the Democratic nominees left their convention and plunged immediately into an eight-state overland campaign tour through the Midwest , Clinton was recording opinion poll ratings of up to 30 percentage points ahead of Bush . |
| 23 | Even as she observed this , it did just that , slithered off the nail which supported it and plunged headfirst into the deep blue of the mantelpiece . |
| 24 | An expression of pure horror shaped itself on his features as he slithered helplessly down the slope and plunged headlong into the stinking waters of Mucky Beck . |
| 25 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 26 | Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck . |
| 27 | Sergeant Joe finished his warming whisky , shook hands with Mr Singleton , took hold of his carpet-bag , and limped out of the cosy , club-like atmosphere of Hennessey 's . |
| 28 | During the half-halts , be strong with leg and positive with a blocking hand , then relax and sit quietly with a light contact , repeating this until the penny finally drops . |
| 29 | I do like she says , and sit there with the damp towel round my neck and wait for her to come back . |
| 30 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |