Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , he must make sure Hirst knuckles down and gets his feet back on the ground . |
| 2 | The Lynx goes further and allows up to eight players to link together . |
| 3 | Cymbeline is too engrossed to notice , but Ma glances up and tells me , ‘ Cymby says she would like Bimbim to join her and Mummy in a nice cup of tea when he 's finished his job . ’ |
| 4 | Our Jeff goes around and says any more nominations |
| 5 | So the plan for the afternoon is , it 's now five to four so if David goes out and tidies up the hut . |
| 6 | No , chases it twice and then Lucy takes on and eats it for him . |
| 7 | It looks as if the two books were not conceived as a single entity although they interrelate in the way that Hilton picks up and elaborates aspects of the subject of Scale 1 in Scale 2 . |
| 8 | Of course Ann sends off and says yeah . |
| 9 | One night I 'm in bed — just sort of lying there , thinking about stuff and that when Marie walks in and goes straight over to her door . |
| 10 | When asked about the lyrical content , Ken giggles bashfully and mutters strange things about tractors and farms . |
| 11 | So I sat on this stool thing and Marie pulled the curtain and the light flashed twice and then Marie leaps in and sits on my lap , and it flashes again . |
| 12 | At about midnight , Lucker wakes up and wants a drink . |
| 13 | Perry sits down and unravels six tiny envelopes , cut of magazine paper , on the low coffee table . |
| 14 | Hildreth goes further and discusses mechanisms in online catalogues to support browsing , such as features for term selection and result manipulation and displays . |
| 15 | Tepilit looks up and sees Leavitt . |
| 16 | Ziggurat Stardust : Alex Paterson lies back and waits for lift-off |
| 17 | Faith 's day starts at around 6am when baby Jake wakes up and starts yelling for a feed . |
| 18 | Suddenly Odd-Knut gets up and asks if we would like to go dog sledging . |
| 19 | When anyone dies or suffers physical injury at the hands of a motorist who is not covered by third party insurance , the MIB steps in and compensates the victim . |
| 20 | Owen : When George , or you Robert … or you Carol walks out and slams the door that means the teacher has to give up time they could be giving to the others in the class , the ones who need the help . |
| 21 | I feel pressure on my back as Frank leans forward and pushes me against the window with his paunch . |
| 22 | Speedy with a lay off and Thomson does well and gets it back to Speedy , Jochim in the middle Agnew arriving he 'll keep it er near the corner flag I think . |
| 23 | The Minchmoor Road turns right and drops down to Yarrowford . |
| 24 | And Joey rings up and said I ca n't get down . |
| 25 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 26 | LA 's L7 are natural performers ; nothing about them is fake , so when Donita rocks out and grapples with her ‘ axe ’ during ‘ Wargasm ’ it does n't look misplaced or ludicrous . |
| 27 | Despite it all , Graham grins mischievously and wreaks the normal kind of two-year-old havoc at the family 's home in Huddersfield , West Yorkshire . |
| 28 | In The Alexandria Quartet ( 1957 — 60 ) , for example , Lawrence Durrell 's narrator Darley sets up and discusses aesthetic paradoxes , including ones affecting the text in which he figures , quite often enough to justify Durrell 's view that , as a whole , ‘ the novel is only half secretly about art , the great subject of modern artists ’ ( in Cowley 1963 : 231 ) . |
| 29 | Satan comes over and rubs against her hand like he does when he 's hungry , but she just stares at him . |
| 30 | GUIL stands up and looks over the audience . ) |