Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] and the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I follow , the sack weighs me down and the small holds force the blood from my fingers , numbing them to hot pains . |
| 2 | Mark Pretty , Chris Plant , Sean Myles , yours truly and the chief route setter Chris Gore had to work until 4.30 am next morning to finish off the routes for the day 's play . |
| 3 | rack for fucking plates , so I put them away and the best way to do it is if sit at the table , you wash and I 'll dry or I 'll dr you er dry and I 'll wash , well what |
| 4 | Just give 'em half a chance , they 'll whip you in and the only way they let you out of them places is feet first , in a box . ’ |
| 5 | The Karens in the army fought them stoutly and the civil population passively resisted . |
| 6 | Yeah I pushed one down and the other one down |
| 7 | Why not keep the phones such as the main one downstairs and the other one as open , I mean as closed and have your own personal one upstairs , in your room or whatever |
| 8 | The low B is a very difficult string to make , since there 's four windings on top of the core ; the first one over , the second under , the third one over and the fourth under . |
| 9 | The dull red glow was all about them now and the baleful light fell across the Robemaker 's cloaked figure so that , although his face remained hidden , Nuadu caught the glitter of his eyes , red and inverted and , despite the belching heat , he felt ice close about his heart . |
| 10 | I 'd rather spend money doing that before they go out than send them out and the bloody things to have to come back again . |
| 11 | Aunt Sophie embraced her warmly and the soft scent of lavender rose from the pleated bodice of her gown . |
| 12 | ‘ Weigh her down and the first squall rips the mast out of her , ’ he warned . |
| 13 | The leather seat ensconced him comfortably and the long broad bonnet stretching ahead was reassuring . |
| 14 | same lines , but , he know he , you assume that as soon as you got outside him , that bloody draft would come round and push him back and the other bloke would carry on . |
| 15 | His absence had n't prevented her thinking about him , but perhaps she had allowed herself to believe that it would continue indefinitely , hence her shock at seeing him now and the panicky sensation of a shadow falling over her once more , its darkness an almost tangible threat . |
| 16 | Maggie looked at him ironically and the dark eyes were turned fully on her , inspecting her face until she had the mad urge to shut her eyes and block out the intent gaze . |
| 17 | BUT THIS GYPSY-STYLE OUTFIT SUITED HER WELL AND THE TIERED SHIRT WAS ONE OF THE COMPANY 'S MOST SUCCESSFUL STYLES EVER . |
| 18 | Yeah , but that it , it , it on and the other |
| 19 | When Ernest left , Rosie tried it on and the two dressmakers stood back to survey their handiwork . |
| 20 | But neither he nor Laura had time to oversee it properly and the first few months were disastrous . |
| 21 | He wrote it down and the next cow came in . |
| 22 | One 's pushing it over and the other one 's pulling it back , oh there is n't enough of them around as it is he 's late is n't he ? |
| 23 | He picked it up and the hot water-bottle fell out . |
| 24 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 25 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 26 | Nancy used one of those in it and she just lifted it out and the whole lot shattered all over |
| 27 | And er it 's cast iron of course , with a steel screw and then er big brass balls on the end of this thing and then you would squeeze it down and then if you did it correctly , you took it out and the indelible ink , would have transferred the actually letter including the signature on the flimsy which was then filed in the |
| 28 | And I remember we had two men once , one used to keep his hand very very tight , squeeze it hard and the other used to make a very big , loose , untidy , whiskery sort of a rope . |
| 29 | ‘ Live exports will not be resumed within the next few months but we have a case to present , we have started to put it forward and the European Commission is sympathetic . ’ |
| 30 | The South Africans arrived claiming they were going to teach the Welsh pack about power play but Gary Llewellyn 's men blew them apart and the Welsh forwards bagged four of the tries . |