Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [adv prt] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He murmured in Italian , words she could not understand , let go of her wrists , and swept her into his arms , gathering her to him until her heart was pressed tightly to his , until her hands lifted and slipped around his neck . |
| 2 | She 'd grinned and tossed back her pony-tailed head . |
| 3 | Inside was an extremely fine needle , with the threading hole cleverly tapped : It was promptly sent back , drilled and tapped along its entire length ! |
| 4 | She had seen and lived in lots of houses far superior to this one , it implied . |
| 5 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to be a princess — Ow ! ’ she yelled , as Lucenzo 's coffee spilled and splashed over her hand . |
| 7 | He looked at Owen , stopped and stretched out his hand . |
| 8 | Can I just say to you that that 's already been developed and worked out we 're intending in the next cycle to bring you proposals for a housing strategy , er on social housing , and within that we 're intending to run a series of short seminars for members to give members , all members , not just members of this committee but members of all area committees until everybody has that information background information on things like , social housing , partnerships , housing association grant so that everybody 's in a position to actually er , see and make a decision on what this council wants out of social housing , but all of that will take place in the next cycle Chair . |
| 9 | Heysham Harbour , near Lancaster , will be the operating base from which the field will be supplied and maintained over its estimated 40 year life . |
| 10 | And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead ; |
| 11 | By 5 am the guns of both batteries had been spiked as planned , by having iron wedges driven into their touch-holes , and the two groups had met as agreed and set about their work of destruction . |
| 12 | Peter Mueller 's experience brought him no great success , either racing or on the French roads ; the new roundabout in Bourg St Maurice , on the road to Val d'Isere , had nearly caught us out , and later we heard that Mueller had crashed and written off his car . |
| 13 | Put simply , John was almost convinced that most cancers are viruses ; the immune system knows that the body has been invaded and sends out its army of antibodies who fail to recognise the enemy and so can not destroy it . |
| 14 | Then , while Leith was again holding down the urge to hit him , and seeing that he 'd prefer not to sack her without just cause — thereby deeply offending his cousin — he had bent and picked up his briefcase . |
| 15 | Denis had turned the other chair round and now straddled it , his arms crossed and resting along its back , the gun on the tea-chest within easy reach . |
| 16 | India says fighting poverty must come before the environment , while millions of its rural poor flock to bloated cities because miners and dam- builders have flooded and dried out their land . |
| 17 | As more and more dislocations are born and move about they impede each other and get tangled up , like so much string . |
| 18 | When Ruth had brushed and pinned up her mistress 's red-brown hair , which always shone as though newly burnished , she thought how lovely Mrs Carson looked . |
| 19 | Tomorrow we look at the care that 's provided and find out who does the caring . |
| 20 | Lizzie is divorced and bringing up her two children , aged seven and five , on a tight income . |
| 21 | Critics have drooled and dribbled over her out-of-this-world beauty and wide , spacey blue eyes , but now Kim Basinger is confounding them all by playing the title creature-from-another-planet in My Stepmother Is An Alien . |
| 22 | John Warnock and Chuck Geschke of Adobe both worked for Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Centre where PDLs were invented and set up their company to commercially exploit the concepts they had helped develop . |
| 23 | Before returning , a look down into the tremendous ravine of Ling Gill below the bridge will reveal a most impressive scene , the beck hurrying along a bouldery bed fringed by trees and cliffs on its way to join the Ribble ; several minor caves have been found and explored along its banks but the rough terrain is a deterrent to walkers who prefer to travel sedately . |
| 24 | He giggles a sudden twit-giggle as if I 've just farted and scrunches up his flipping funny face as if the stitches in some private part have just popped open , and at that moment he is the very image of a nervous comic wreak . |
| 25 | ‘ What with health budgets being pruned and cut back I 'm asking the health board if staff shortages perhaps were a contributory factor here . ’ |
| 26 | He knew exactly what he wanted , or , or the range of things he wanted , and the price that he , he was price conditioned and working out which was the best price , priced package . |
| 27 | Their midpoints should be fixed and hinged along their central axis so that they can be rotated at equal intervals into the form of a helix . |
| 28 | Davide had seen the priests , who had shrugged and thrown up their hands indolently at the laundress 's problem . |
| 29 | Her dark brown hair was neatly cut and waved around her face ; there was only a slight tinge of grey . |
| 30 | When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress . |