Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to look pale and interesting and bowl him over with my sparkling wit ! ’ |
| 2 | I generally work from dark to light and bring it out from the dark . |
| 3 | I generally work from dark to light and bring it out from the dark . |
| 4 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 5 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 6 | Wexford grasped it in both his hands , raised it high and brought it down hard to meet the empty air . |
| 7 | They staggered on for a year or two after that , but Tesco 's had a big , big change of policy they were no longer high and kick them out cheap , they decided to promote a quality in which stamps did not go for and erm |
| 8 | ‘ What you do is , ’ said Granny Morkie , ‘ you lift your feet up really high and plonk them down . |
| 9 | Then lift the front foot high and hook it back into the opponent 's head . |
| 10 | He pulled the drawer free and carried it outside for her , setting it on the desk . |
| 11 | She wriggled one hand free and stretched it out , searching . |
| 12 | The next morning Lorne filmed me cutting the model free and lashing it down again , facing forwards . |
| 13 | She stopped briefly , pulled her sash free and put it over her head , tucking her hair under it . |
| 14 | Bishop pulled the crystal that the Doctor had left in the simularity reader free and turned it over and over in his hands . |
| 15 | Meredith pulled it free and opened it up . |
| 16 | The copper map had evidently been fastened to the concrete plinth through the medium of some nineteen-thirties metallurgical technology which is sadly lost to us today , because it ruggedly defied even the most enterprising attempts to prise it free and bear it off to the smelting pot . |
| 17 | The only cookery books at Greystones were yellowing volumes from the twenties and thirties , smelling of damp and telling you how to make spotted dick or pickle eggs in isinglass . |
| 18 | And if you 're sensible and watch her closely you could learn a thing or two . ’ |
| 19 | Thus that dappled skin , peeled from a mutant , both reminded him of how he had been orphaned and reproached him too . |
| 20 | I now have eight keepers who rotate so that each youngster becomes equally fond and knows them equally well . |
| 21 | He said Daphne even though she is married now I am willing to forget the bad talks that were going around about him being foolish and wanting her back . |
| 22 | Both sets of hedges are getting very overgrown and make it very difficult for pedestrians who are forced out into the middle of the road with the consequent danger from traffic . |
| 23 | In this particular pair of designs , I have used matching leaves and similar tones for the flowers , although you could create two designs that are very different and link them together with matching frames or mounts . |
| 24 | Anyway , we must be clever and change you gradually . ’ |
| 25 | I want to get chummy and get him quickly . " |
| 26 | And to be more explicit and to show you how tall I stand by the giant , I will put down a simile of human life as far as I now perceive it ; that is , to the point to which I say we both have arrived at . |
| 27 | I wanted to keep her warm and handle her as much as possible in preparation for training . |
| 28 | ‘ Keep him warm and give him plenty to drink . |
| 29 | But if it makes somebody uncomfortable and makes them overly conscious of their gender erm and perhaps how they look , then that 's what I think is sexual harassment . |
| 30 | So the best thing is to put the piece of paper in in a wadge and then come out on the outside and pack it vertically and put them next to each other like that . |