Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [adv prt] [pos pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to be a princess — Ow ! ’ she yelled , as Lucenzo 's coffee spilled and splashed over her hand . |
| 6 | He looked at Owen , stopped and stretched out his hand . |
| 7 | Heysham Harbour , near Lancaster , will be the operating base from which the field will be supplied and maintained over its estimated 40 year life . |
| 8 | And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Lizzie is divorced and bringing up her two children , aged seven and five , on a tight income . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Davide had seen the priests , who had shrugged and thrown up their hands indolently at the laundress 's problem . |
| 23 | Her dark brown hair was neatly cut and waved around her face ; there was only a slight tinge of grey . |
| 24 | The South Africans said that if the guerrillas surrendered and handed over their weapons , they would get safe conduct back to Angola . |
| 25 | Unfortunately after negotiating the long stretch of locks and leaving this unique western end of the Canal , a thick low fog descended and blotted out our fantastic surroundings leaving me to navigate by radar the tortuous bends of the channel and through the shallows of Loch Oich . |
| 26 | Only centimetres from his eyes and mouth , the hydra blurred and soaked up his voice so that he seemed to be shouting underwater . |
| 27 | I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end . |
| 28 | The first hundred yards or so of the level were stone dressed and arched over our heads in a well-made curve . |
| 29 | Dalgliesh wondered why it was that , when walking towards the sea , there came a moment when its roar suddenly increased as if a menace , quiescent and benign , had suddenly realized and gathered up its power . |
| 30 | And can you imagine what the Harris Tweed lounge covers look like after a free range toddler has snacked and sicked up its holiday treats ? |