Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She grunted fiercely and set off up the slope . |
| 2 | When Chola was kneading the dough for ro is , tired after a day 's work in the fields , exasperated by the twins ' hungry grizzling , the chickens flapping around the bowl and the dogs ' beady eyes , she 'd lash out , screaming , and the red bitch would yelp exaggeratedly and skulk off to a corner . |
| 3 | Guido was already heading down the corridor towards his own room , but he stopped suddenly and glanced back at her across his shoulder . |
| 4 | He straightened suddenly and looked down at her coldly . |
| 5 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
| 6 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 7 | We got out of the coach and walked through the gates to the stares of those gathered on the gravel , and over to a low metal hut in the corner of the compound where we were ordered to go inside and sit down in silence . |
| 8 | Then he had dashed back inside and curled up in his seat with his hands covering his ears until she came to take him home . |
| 9 | ‘ Now shall we go back inside and carry on with our little game of make-believe ? |
| 10 | She is dying inside and crying out for love , just like me . |
| 11 | It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door . |
| 12 | After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee . |
| 13 | I walked inside and sat down in a hall , whitewashed and cool with a red-tiled floor . |
| 14 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 15 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 16 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 17 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 18 | Well , you wo n't all fit in there , so park up opposite and come on in . |
| 19 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 20 | There , it seemed , commentary was powerless and pointless ; he would simply read the text aloud and move on to the next poem . |
| 21 | Signe took the money gleefully and ran out of the room shouting , ‘ I can take a hint . |
| 22 | Braintree prevented the try but were offside in doing so and went in at half-time 6–0 down . |
| 23 | This gentleman visited Miss Mack every 18 months or so and put up at the Bell for the week of his stay . |
| 24 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 25 | What was it , six o'clock and come back at nine ? |
| 26 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 27 | They want to move the whole competition — lock , stock and barrel — out of the province entirely and turn in into the Jersey Milk Cup . |
| 28 | I only know that it was remarkable that he could react so swiftly and swoop down round the rabbit 's ears . |
| 29 | I told her I would n't be long and went back down the path . |
| 30 | You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and jumping back onto the table . |