Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy blushed to his ears and owned to it . |
| 2 | She put her hands over her ears and walked along the beach , to sit up in the sand dunes , where Gazzer found her … . |
| 3 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 4 | The doctor , still chatting away , put her stethoscope in her ears and listened to Phoebe 's chest and heart , then had her sit up and tapped her back . |
| 5 | She threw her arms round the horse 's neck and in return , it flicked its ears and snickered with pleasure . |
| 6 | Fiver looked as though he were about to speak , but then shook his ears and turned to nibbling at a dandelion . |
| 7 | To determine the origin of the cloned IRS-PCR products , amplification products were used as probes and hybridized to Sfi I partially digested GM06318 DNA ; all 7 products tested hybridized to a fragment between 600 and 670 kb in size and multiple smaller fragments ( data not shown ) . |
| 8 | Other people in the hotel had heard the screams and came into our room . |
| 9 | Local man Paul McAllister heard the screams and raced to the scene with a ladder which he used to reach a bedroom window . |
| 10 | Sanchez uncrossed his legs and looked towards the pit . |
| 11 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 12 | Robbie averted her eyes from those muscular legs and looked at him consideringly . |
| 13 | Guards met him , helped him out , standing back , their heads bowed , as he stretched his legs and looked about him . |
| 14 | Rex was trapped by his legs and had to be cut free . |
| 15 | She punched his face and kicked his legs and tore at his abdomen . |
| 16 | Then , clicking his heels together , he turned on his short legs and marched from the room . |
| 17 | Immediately it sprouted numerous legs and scrabbled for a purchase . |
| 18 | I got into bed beside my sleeping daughter , peeled aside all but one of the covers and went to sleep . |
| 19 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 20 | ‘ The Jew from Babylon ’ is an enthralling tale about a Jewish sorcerer , a believer in the faith , hated by demons and disapproved of by rabbis , who in old age endures a turmoil which ends his life . |
| 21 | But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got . |
| 22 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
| 23 | Yet within Oxford her energies and charm were employed chiefly in defence of the home students , a growing society that included mature students and foreigners and prospered under her quietly autocratic but kindly regime . |
| 24 | About 1 pm they got the signals and moved round the curve into Northgate tunnel and headed for Llandudno . |
| 25 | She tied the strings of their aprons and did up their buttons , and she sat between them at their bread and milk breakfast which was at half past seven . |
| 26 | As food particles are swept by , they are caught by the tentacles and passed by them down to the mouth . |
| 27 | The whole mass dropped into the pit and a moment later the big slab was snatched up by several dozen tentacles and slammed into place , leaving a number of thrashing limbs trapped around the edge . |
| 28 | In 1954 one was washed ashore in Norway that measured 9 metres from the end of its body to the tip of its outstretched tentacles and weighed about a ton . |
| 29 | She loved her ballet and tap dancing sessions and longed to be a ballet dancer but , at 5ft 10 ½ inches , was too tall . |
| 30 | Outgoing and engaging , she is the only girl in a household of brothers and confessed to being the pet of the family . |