Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There on either side of the River Leam , lie the wonderfully pre-served sites of the deserted villages of Braunstonbury and Wolfhamcote both apparently finally abandoned in the sixteenth century , together with the latter 's tiny church . |
| 2 | They parked near Camp Hill and walked out aimlessly across the heath amidst the estranged fathers flying kites with their sons and the headscarfed ladies exercising their labradors . |
| 3 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 4 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 5 | I would not want to direct it , but I do think it would be a shame if Lacan , Althusser , Freud and Foucault yet again were allowed to bag the best parts . |
| 6 | ‘ Fuck you , ’ said Donna and kicked out hard under the table . |
| 7 | He showed no surprise on seeing Mrs Sutherland and called out angrily , before she could speak , ‘ Mrs S , we 've had the MMB cell-count . |
| 8 | First , the appalling Beria had been arrested at pistol point in the Kremlin and executed as privily as his victims . |
| 9 | She hired one in Kyrenia and drove about recklessly — and very odd people were referring to her as ‘ Rosie ’ when I got there . |
| 10 | Miss Webb arrived in South Africa in 1912 , intending to start a school in Johannesburg , but was captivated by Cape Town and settled there instead . |
| 11 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 12 | I much enjoyed my 15 years in England and got on well with nearly everyone . |
| 13 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 14 | On the accession of Queen Elizabeth they returned to England and lived happily ever after . |
| 15 | Walsingham wrote that the English broke off the siege of Quimperlê and returned home sadly and slowly , and rumours of treachery and corruption soon began to circulate . |
| 16 | ‘ We saw the job advertised in January and applied right away , ’ says Derry . |
| 17 | The domestic programme kicked off in December and has so far rounded up 32 resellers out of a desired 50 with access to key accounts , Unix expertise and a vertical orientation . |
| 18 | He 's been second in good races at Royal Ascot and Doncaster and ran well again at York last time . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 20 | She remembered her last encounter with Alexander and failed yet again to understand her own behaviour . |
| 21 | And , thought Busacher to himself , it would also help with the awkwardness of Suzi and Georg no longer speaking and everyone knowing that the little Hoflin was currently messing about with Gesner . |
| 22 | He left the sea , crossed the Villa Comunale and headed off inland . |
| 23 | ‘ I should like to huff and to puff and to blow his house down and take Maggie away from him and she and me and Francie could go back to Ireland and live quietly together and play music and have a little step dancing from time to time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I wonder , ’ said Ian and laughed so genuinely that Julia was reassured . |
| 25 | The works of Trubar and his collaborators were printed in Germany and circulated not only amongst Slovenes but also amongst Croats and Serbs . |
| 26 | ‘ And to think that I had specially brought that card all the way from Croisset and did n't even get to put it in place ! |
| 27 | Immediately below the terrace was the Mauzère , wider and deeper here than at Les Châtaigniers and flowing less swiftly . |
| 28 | From that day to this Adam had never set eyes on Mary Gage and had hardly ever thought of her . |
| 29 | Cranston leaned over the table , placing his hands over those of Fitzosbert and pressing down hard until the keeper 's face paled and beads of sweat broke out on his brow . |
| 30 | Nowadays I consider that winter comes too early in Baldersdale and stays too long . |