Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] and [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 2 | All four versions include a skipper 's cabin accessed from the upper deck only and sandwiched between the anchor well and the forward bulkhead of the owner 's cabin . |
| 3 | They were up and ready for inspection , with the tent down and folded back into a small square by six thirty . |
| 4 | The cab came from a Massey-Ferguson 1200 and cost £600 , and a solid steel radiator surround from the same model was turned upside down and fitted to the new tractor . |
| 5 | You 're impatient to see the whole valley turned upside down and shaken to get him out . ’ |
| 6 | They attended art college together and co-habited for fifteen years . |
| 7 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 8 | Madame Butterfly , he thought , for he had sneaked a glance at the soldier opposite and seen that he was now weeping , the letter crumpled in his fist , scrunching apple blossom . |
| 9 | Stephen turned the main light off and returned to his father 's desk . |
| 10 | The afternoon dance publicised in The Northern Echo yesterday and run by the Dolphin Sunday Dance Club at the Dolphin Centre , Darlington , is not taking place tomorrow . |
| 11 | Well , what it 's all about is that er , the insurers have seen things on the telly etcetera and horrified with the result , |
| 12 | A MOTHER who beat her baby daughter to death was convicted of murder yesterday and jailed for life . |
| 13 | The show gathered momentum quickly and finished on a high that lasted through the party held afterwards at the neighbouring Holiday Inn . |
| 14 | On the afternoon of New Year 's Day we reached the road end , picked the car up and returned to Queenstown . |
| 15 | The biopsy specimens were immersed immediately in Dulbecco 's modified Eagle 's medium ( Serva , Heidelberg ) , prewarmed to 37°C , with the mucosal side upwards and placed on a filter paper under a dissecting microscope . |
| 16 | Karen rinsed her mouth out and spat in the sink . |
| 17 | Hare today and gone tomorrow ? |
| 18 | He indicated that he still hoped that Mozart would be offered the post of organist there and hinted at some of the intrigue surrounding the appointment . |
| 19 | Mr Macdonald said the most significant thing was that Brown had gone back to his car nearby and returned to the fight armed with the knife which had a 12in blade . |
| 20 | I turned the car round and headed home . |
| 21 | The plaintiff rode his horse violently and collided with a pole which the defendant had negligently left in the road . |
| 22 | As a procurer , ’ he said , and tucked his chins into his neck solemnly and put on an expression that said : and that is a reasonable thing for a man to do , of course . |
| 23 | Right , so that 's the digression over and done with it 's pretty fascinating stuff okay , you 'll you 'll need that in the in erm in your Q M project if you have to apply one to a particular problem . |
| 24 | That afternoon I walked round the circuit alone and thought about it . |
| 25 | A MAN suspected of drunken driving was under arrest last night after a father-of-four was mown down and killed as he cycled home from work . |
| 26 | All along , Astorre had been longing to get the campaign over and done with . |
| 27 | He was here , expecting her ; she would get this ordeal over and done with . |
| 28 | Blue smoke rose from the grill , she snatched the toast away and scraped off the burnt part . |
| 29 | The fires , which are concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo , have been blamed on a combination of four months of low rainfall and the after-effects of widespread logging , which have left large swathes of comparatively parched land on which fires can take hold easily and spread to secondary forest growth . |
| 30 | Getting the turning over and done with as rapidly as possible demands violent measures . |