Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd read an article by Jon Mendlesohn in Rolling Stone , which emanated from a trip he took to Los Angeles the year before , which must have been about 1970 , that said that there was this guy who did weird songs and dressed up in dresses . |
| 2 | Patrick threw back the covers and hopped out of bed . |
| 3 | Scope for agricultural improvement is limited naturally but the RP provides 40% of the cost of fences so that grazing land can be compartmentalised and grazed more effectively , 40% of the cost of providing livestock watering facilities and 40% of the cost of adding fertilisers or grass seed ( applied on to existing pastures and trodden in by livestock ) . |
| 4 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 5 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 6 | Within minutes they had roused sleeping children from four of those homes and driven off with them into the murky winter dawn . |
| 7 | Then , assuming the visitor was given a guided tour of the manor , he would then leave the kitchen and find the WC directly opposite the front door ; just a WC , no bath , no wash-hand basin , no toilet-paper , no mod-cons ; if he did wish to ‘ spend a penny ’ , well , yesterday 's newspaper was cut neatly into 6 inch squares and nailed on to a convenient wall . |
| 8 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 9 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 10 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 11 | Burun leapt to his feet and charged out of the door . |
| 12 | Zeinab rose to her feet and swept out of the box . |
| 13 | In the Tottenham system , which is bibliographically based , administrative duties are separated from bibliographical duties and carried out by non-professional staff from an administrative division . |
| 14 | Powerful fans were brought in from other mines and taken down into Bank mine to disperse the gases . |
| 15 | ‘ The parcels are collected during the day by one of our franchisees and taken back to the depot . |
| 16 | A hawk had swooped low over the field of play , picked up the ball in its claws and flown off with it . |
| 17 | He combed through his hair with his fingers and headed back to his clothes . |
| 18 | Decked in tasselled yellow howdah cloths and ridden by straw-hatted Annamese mahouts perched straddle-legged behind their ears , a dozen elephants lumbered slowly across the flagstones and lined up before the open doors . |
| 19 | Kathleen put her hands on her hips and squared up to him . |
| 20 | ARMY officer James Mundell , 22 , was jailed for eight weeks and kicked out of his brigadier father 's regiment yesterday for brawling at Bulford , Wilts . |
| 21 | " The Youth Militant supporters must be seen in their true light of splitters and disrupters and cleared out of the youth movement , " urged John Gollan , secretary of the Young Communist League , after the conference . |
| 22 | Then you have to select your weapons and use them with caution — go in with a gung-ho spirit and you could find you 've missed most of your targets and run out of ammo . |
| 23 | Today , it admitted to the crimes and executions plotted in these corridors and carried out by its men under Stalin . |
| 24 | The vast majority of these were hastily-assembled hack jobs , pieced together from published sources and fleshed out with the dubious reminiscences of alleged veterans . |
| 25 | The report says that recent judicial investigations in Colombia have established that political killings have been planned and organised by army officers and carried out by irregular groups operating on behalf of the armed forces . |
| 26 | I felt they might have a better chance of getting to the capital if they were folded into paper aeroplanes and launched out of the door . |
| 27 | Vehicles are loaded on to special platforms and dropped out of aircraft specifically designated to carry out this task on to adjacent or parallel drop zones . |
| 28 | Her first published work , The Black Riders , was originally told as bedtime stones to her four small nephews and written down at their insistence , in 1918 . |
| 29 | They have gone through privatization and ceased being Civil Servants and gone out into the cold and now they are suffering this blow , so they do , I think , deserve the most generous possible treatment . |
| 30 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |