Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as she skewered him with a look of pure detestation , he reached out suddenly and caught her by the wrists . |
| 2 | She ushered the girl inside and sent her to the bathroom . |
| 3 | She drew him inside and led him towards the candle-light . |
| 4 | They stuffed a sock into her mouth , pushed her inside and kicked her to the floor breaking her ankle and wrist . |
| 5 | He led her inside and left her at one side of the room , walking softly away and stopping to face her at the other side . |
| 6 | He took us inside and introduced us to Kjell-Arne , a lanky , shy youth who worked for him and was told to make coffee , and Tove , the kennel girl . |
| 7 | They were side by side , and she rolled on to her back , arched herself to receive him as she stretched her legs outwards and clasped them round him . |
| 8 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 9 | We can assume that his scepticism extended to his belief in the efficacy of non-violence because he notes that reading Tolstoy influenced him greatly and cured him of his scepticism making him a believer again in ahi sā . |
| 10 | P.S. I think we left some skeletons in water , if so , tell James to take them out merely and lay them on the table to dry . |
| 11 | He stood swiftly and pulled her to her feet , steadying her as she swayed . |
| 12 | With help from a tutor I finally put them together and fitted them into the cubic box I was given . |
| 13 | Ronni pulled herself together and looked him in the eye . |
| 14 | I got my part of the control lines together and carried them in a loop round to the kite . |
| 15 | Three young men from Hartwell , John Charles Kingston , Felix Smith and Bill Spriggs , unable to afford a bicycle each , clubbed together and bought one between them . |
| 16 | Lorton swept the coins together and crammed them into the box . |
| 17 | Instead , resting his elbows on his papers , he laced his fingers together and regarded her over them . |
| 18 | She folded some pound notes together and pushed them inside her underslip , then looked over her shoulder to make sure that the seams of her stockings were straight . |
| 19 | Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her . |
| 20 | Then he clipped the pages together and slipped them into a file . |
| 21 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 22 | Mr Gorbachev reportedly offered to resign at Saturday 's meeting after Kemerevo party chief Alexander Melnikov ‘ really let himself get carried away and said something like this : ‘ Is it proper to go bowing to the capitalists ? to go asking a blessing from the Pope ? ’ ' according to a conservative Central Committee member . |
| 23 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |
| 24 | ‘ Busy , ’ he replied , and while she bit down a reply of , ‘ That should keep you out of mischief , ’ Lubor went on to disappoint her some more , when he added , ‘ Mr Gajdusek has gone away and left me with very much work . ’ |
| 25 | This bomb came through and whacked this barrel and it took the side of his head away and dragged him to the end of the ship . ’ |
| 26 | The Chronicle C text records that in 1028 Cnut sailed from England to Norway with fifty ships ; D and E add that he drove Olaf away and took it for himself . |
| 27 | Right out of the blue ; ran away and married her in England . |
| 28 | She twisted her face away and kept herself from crying out . |
| 29 | He turned away and swung himself into the saddle of the horse that Bravd was holding . |
| 30 | Very deliberately she closed her teeth gently on his fingertip , her eyes holding his , and with a smothered sound Penry jerked his hand away and seized her in his arms , his kiss igniting a response which set them both alight . |