Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lorton swept the coins together and crammed them into the box . |
| 32 | Meredith rubbed reddened fingers together and went round to the boot to unload her wares . |
| 33 | What pinch your fingers together and push it in its |
| 34 | Instead , resting his elbows on his papers , he laced his fingers together and regarded her over them . |
| 35 | Couville tapped his fingers together and narrowed his eyes . |
| 36 | He laced his fingers together and sat back . |
| 37 | She felt him lace their fingers together and trembled with a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation . |
| 38 | Burger put the tips of his fingers together and considered what he would say . |
| 39 | A gybe in which , instead of the sail passing around the front of the board , the sailor ducks down and throws it overhead . |
| 40 | Sara walked beyond the crowd and put her cases down and waited . |
| 41 | Without further hesitation they gathered their sticks together and boarded the five Bristol Bombays , squeezing themselves into the fuselages among the piles of equipment that were to be dropped with them . |
| 42 | Andrei , a conscript , swapped Latvian biscuits for Mongolian Arkhi vodka and Vitalie , a teenage cadet , explained the secret of speaking Russian ; you run the hyphenated syllables together and roll your Rs . |
| 43 | When she saw Meredith she said , ‘ Oh , hi ! ’ slurring the two syllables together and smiling uncertainly . |
| 44 | Parties , in many respects , were no longer taken seriously by the voters ; many more people now disavowed parties altogether and declared themselves to be independents . |
| 45 | Corbett rubbed his eyes wearily and wondered when he would rest from this interminable business , who the attackers of yesterday were and , more importantly , who had paid them ? |
| 46 | She closed her eyes grimly and pointed at the table . |
| 47 | His wife rolled her eyes rather and murmured , ‘ And I get to hear about it every day , ’ as her husband hastened away to show us his computer print-out from the medical laboratory . |
| 48 | Four or five can jar your legs badly and shake your guts up into a momentary dysentery if you land wrong . |
| 49 | In town centres , they decided to get rid of cars altogether and invent shopping precincts . |
| 50 | His camp followers have been nodding their heads sagely and saying that all is not yet over and Hezzy may not be destined to live out his political life amid the ruins of the Department of the Environment — once he 's pulled it down , that is . |
| 51 | At present , RTV is intended as a development tool allowing applications developers to capture their images digitally and model a DVI application on their magnetic hard disc which they then can run and verify before sending video away to Intel 's US laboratories for processing to full PLV quality . |
| 52 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 53 | She licked her lips nervously and made every effort to appear casual . |
| 54 | She licked her lips nervously and tried to simulate deep interest in the scenery outside , which was difficult , since there was very little to see in the rapidly failing light . |
| 55 | She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars . |
| 56 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 57 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 58 | One group have lost their legs altogether and taken to burrowing underground . |
| 59 | ‘ I do n't think we expected anything else , ’ said Floy , with complete courtesy and Caspar hunched his shoulders crossly and said , ‘ There might be a plan . |
| 60 | Arty opened his eyes slowly and inclined his head towards a notice on the door — a notice he had put there himself . |