Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transduction : a bacteriophage attacks E. coli , proliferates inside and carries off microbial genes . |
| 2 | But I expect that you all want to know how I could do it — how I could have walked in and scooped up this yummy young man from the arms of his loving and lawful wife . |
| 3 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 4 | ‘ We-ell , they 're forecasting heavy rain , ’ Simon pointed out , ‘ but if I had a key to the cottage I could go in and fix up some temporary weatherproofing until the roof can be properly repaired . ’ |
| 5 | Should you cash it in and take out another ? |
| 6 | The former Wimbledon striker said : ‘ We 've got to start digging in and dish out some of the rough stuff . |
| 7 | The floor of my brick garage is lower than the surrounding area , and I had trouble because water kept leaking in and collecting along one side . |
| 8 | THIS IS the day for signing in and checking out fellow schmoozers ; for ploughing through the completely bewildering gig schedule , and trying to work out just how we 're going to survive the next 100 hours without losing any important internal organs . |
| 9 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 10 | I can arrange to have someone come in and clear up this mess in the morning after the fingerprint team have finished . ’ |
| 11 | Sheep automatically seem to connect people with food , so that they become bothersome and , in some cases I saw , dangerous as they tried butting until harassed walkers gave in and handed over some of their food . |
| 12 | Northants were put in to bat : but Devon Malcolm must have had his eye on an England selector : he was steaming in and picked up two quicks wickets . |
| 13 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 14 | Anyway , if you 're goin' to tea with the toffs you 'd better get scrubbed down and pick out some decent clothes . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No — you 'd find it even hotter if we did , ’ he told her firmly , placing their suitcases down and switching on two small lamps on the tables set either side of a large , shabby couch which had clearly seen better days . |
| 16 | So he took me back to his place and pulled his pants down and took out this big bundle with the works in it , like . |
| 17 | He put the chart down and picked up one of the books . |
| 18 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 19 | The DML is the database language which is used to join relations together and pick out selected tuples or domains as requested by the user . |
| 20 | We could go to Camden Market together and pick out some furniture . ’ |
| 21 | Add the wine and bring to the boil , stirring constantly and scraping down any meat particles from the sides of the pan . |
| 22 | Then roll out the green , red and yellow pieces separately and cut out two large wedges or triangles of each , to fit the top third of the balloon . |
| 23 | The old woman reflects " " " Now , is like when the fire flew away and ate up all the trees ' " " ( p. 93 ) . |
| 24 | She held the idea of death briefly between her hands ; but noticed how fast her mind darted away and took up sentimental pictures of her funeral , of her mother 's and grandmother 's distress , of her friends . |
| 25 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 26 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 27 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 28 | If we go through and chuck out all the grotty stuff . |
| 29 | You should always be on the look out for extra long pentatonic licks that move horizontally along the fretboard , weaving right through and linking up two or more of the five pentatonic positions . |
| 30 | The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn . |