Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 2 | And , having decided upon that fact , he took her arm and led her along a track she had not previously explored . |
| 3 | Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate . |
| 4 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 5 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 6 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 7 | ‘ When I had to send the Women to fetch you every step of the way , child — and pick you up every time you fell ? |
| 8 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 9 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 10 | She folded her slip and draped it over a chair . |
| 11 | Doreen stepped out of her slip , and draped it over a chair . |
| 12 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 13 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 14 | Riven 's slung arm hampered him , and he pulled the sling off irritably and stuffed it down the front of his jerkin , moving his arm in circles . |
| 15 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 16 | Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window . |
| 17 | ‘ You can get a man inside it , and they 'll tie a heavy stone to the King 's body and push it down the pipe . |
| 18 | Their gaze locked for a long moment as he pulled the towel from his neck and flung it over a rail , then , suddenly embarrassed , she looked away . |
| 19 | The corpse 's bracelet was beginning to squeal ; Fox dragged it off and flung it down the stairwell ; she did n't hear it land . |
| 20 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 21 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 22 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 23 | Got involved and cooled it down a bit and er and found some of the people some premises , and I think got them some money from Duke of Edinburgh award scheme or something , to buy music music equipment . |
| 24 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 25 | You know , hold her hand and cheer her up a bit . |
| 26 | And you can look at it one way , and say , oh I 've got , I 've got two rows here with six in , and space them out a bit so , or give him that so he 's got sort of , two rows with six in , and you say , oh from where you 're looking at it , it 's six rows with two in . |
| 27 | your horn and cut him up a bit . |
| 28 | Forest-living Indians catch them and roast them over a fire so that the poison drips from their skins . |
| 29 | It 's just the pocket really let's turn you round a bit see if it hurts it 's just the way it is I 'm afraid see if we can open it up and spread it out a bit . |
| 30 | If there 's a fight , they tie your hands , pull your head sideways and put you down the block . |