Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , now , ’ Miss Louise called back sharply , ‘ mind your manners and let them in . ’ |
| 2 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 3 | He had taken one hand from the wheel and held it up in protest . |
| 4 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 5 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 6 | I think some people they used to put a , I think some used a little sponge and put something on but I did n't . |
| 7 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 8 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 9 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 10 | By managing the stock and thinning them out we 're getting larger and better shellfish . ’ |
| 11 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 12 | Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden . |
| 13 | Should of had it on the card and tucked it in |
| 14 | As it prints ‘ larger than life ’ , it is very simple to transfer the design to a card and punch it out . |
| 15 | Cornelius retrieved both letter and card and set them down before him . |
| 16 | Draw round or trace the shape on to the card and cut it out . |
| 17 | If the doctor suspects that the medicine has caused an affect like that , he 's asked to fill in a card and to send it in . |
| 18 | The unarmed man then produced a buff-coloured plastic ID card and held it up in front of Vasili . |
| 19 | She pulled out one card and handed it over , extending it between two outstretched fingers — as if amnesia was catching . |
| 20 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 21 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 22 | ‘ The basic idea is that you jump towards them , scoop up their legs and take them down hard , ’ she explained . |
| 23 | Bill forces the bent rod into the empty holster socket between Doug 's legs and rams it in deeply . |
| 24 | He ordered Rose to take one of Effie 's legs and lift it on to her shoulders , and McAllister the other , to make it easier for him to help the insistent baby on its way . |
| 25 | We and i it 's , when we had sprouts it used to get its hind legs and pull them down and start ploughing at them . |
| 26 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 27 | Yeah it literally it 's like sticking a sticking plaster on your legs and pulling it off . |
| 28 | And then , for his sake , she did what she had read should be done : raised her legs and arched her back and held him embraced and reached her mouth to his , and began to enjoy what she did . |
| 29 | Simultaneously , she reached between his legs and jerked him off . |
| 30 | True Brit Christie 's first action after storming to victory in just 9.96 seconds was to snatch a giant Union Jack flag from British fans and drape it around his shoulders for his rousing lap of honour . |