Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | She tore the tissue paper off and held up a little polythene envelope , with two silver fist-in-a-bag ear-rings inside . |
| 32 | The S1 and S2 buttons on the GK-2 controller can be used to reassign the footswitches to hold , pitch up or pitch down an octave , control signal modulation or to start or stop the in-built sequencer ( of which more later ) . |
| 33 | She 's half-turned away , hanging up or taking down a dress from a hook . |
| 34 | Which Nick 's chewed up and spat out a Hula Hoop with water added . |
| 35 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 36 | We were a little disappointed — or at least I was — with David because he was n't in a dress and he was n't nearly as crazy as we thought he would be , but nevertheless , we liked his music a lot and he introduced us from the audience and Cherry Vanilla stood up and popped out a tit for the other 20 people , and David said that we were doing Pork . |
| 37 | I liked to dress up and go out a lot . |
| 38 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 39 | She had sat up and stretched out a hand to lift the receiver when she paused . |
| 40 | I wish I could hang it up and put on a new one ’ . ’ |
| 41 | Someone got up and put on a Pink Floyd album . |
| 42 | After four attempts to set our 45lb CQR in the thin sand-over-rock bottom , we gave up and put out a couple of 40lb Danforths , both of which bit hard on the first attempt . |
| 43 | He half sat up and put out a hand as if to touch her , aware that something traumatic had occurred . |
| 44 | There they were tied up and pushed over a cliff in their burning car . |
| 45 | Lee got up and picked up a piece of cross-stitch tapestry from the top of an old record-player and sat down in the rocking-chair , her back to the two young people . |
| 46 | The girl got up and switched on an X-ray display panel with two plates . |
| 47 | Mrs Mantini straightened up and puffed out a last breath of her garlic-and-onion lunch . |
| 48 | When I was sure he would n't come in I got up and danced about a bit , and read the art books and drank water . |
| 49 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 50 | They point out that setting up a screening system that is as accurate as the UK one is very difficult . |
| 51 | So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases . |
| 52 | His account brings the whole city alive : the dry bones of the period are suddenly fleshed out and take on a recognizable human face . |
| 53 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 54 | While many are unable to tolerate a close , demanding , intimate relationship they nevertheless crave friendships and want to engage in normal social activities such as eating out and chatting over a drink in a club or pub . |
| 55 | Those guys did n't stop the car , jump out and pick up a parcel . |
| 56 | Joanna nodded equably and Sophie got out and walked back a short distance . |
| 57 | At the same time , take the trimmings , colour them brown , roll them out and cut out a door shape . |
| 58 | Roll out and cut out a small door shape , and secure on to the bottom of the helter-skelter with a little water . |
| 59 | And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week . |
| 60 | Now he reached out and picked up a pheasant wing which he proceeded to eat . |