Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever kids are near he goes out of his way to pick them up and snuggle and kiss them , sometimes more tenderly than one could imagine their parents doing . |
| 2 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
| 3 | I kept pretending to pick it up and others , getting further and further to the door picking them up . |
| 4 | Christians singer Henry Priestman , at No 33 with What 's In A Word says : ‘ We spent two years trying to sort it out and relationships in the band suffered . |
| 5 | Mrs Tiggy-winkle came tripping out to wave us off and Buster 's chains began to rattle inside his kennel . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact he was very put out because Martinez simply told him one day at the end of last year that the agency had a new client but he , Martinez , was going to handle him personally and Ed Grainger did n't need to bother about him . |
| 7 | Gemmell 's clearance Whitlow down to Ormanroyd , Collimore did well to win it back and Ormanroyd just got a foot in again . |
| 8 | used to have them in the pub and then to play it back and people did n't realise it was there voice you know . |
| 9 | Inspector Blakelock gets here early those mornings to let them in and Scobie keeps an eye on them . |
| 10 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 11 | Honestly Paul you wo n't have time to do it tomorrow and Sunday well you can work 'till nine o'clock tonight . |
| 12 | This afternoon it came a step closer when the Health Authority voted to shut it down and transfer facilities to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital . |
| 13 | Cos if you take them back , you 've got to keep them somewhere and building societies and banks are charging much more than they used to for actually keeping safe deposit . |
| 14 | He reached for her to kiss her again and Sally clung to him hoping that somehow the contact would make everything come right . |
| 15 | took it in and they said well they have to send it away and Dave said , yeah okay , he said well it 's forty nine pound before you start |
| 16 | Or get your father to run us out and taxi back . |
| 17 | They thought it normal for Daddy to get them up and dress and breakfast them , before he went down to morning surgery , and for Lucy once she was up to spend ages talking excitedly and gesticulating on the telephone , before consigning them ( with a kiss on the head ) to Nissy while she disappeared to the study to practise , and the house was filled with the cello 's dismal squeaks and groans , which always recovered eventually , into more or less of a tune . |
| 18 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 19 | It was noisy and crowded but it was nice to have it so and Alan need n't have worried that she 'd dislike that . |
| 20 | Once you 've read it a couple of times and confirmed in your own mind exactly how you want the system to operate , it 's surprisingly easy to get it up and running , and once you have , you 've got a quite capable mini-network to play with . |
| 21 | Mr Fractor used a table to push everyone aside and Mr Jotter , shouting in rhymes , lashed furiously with his cane at everything that moved . |
| 22 | Well I had to have something to perk it up and vegetables are getting a bit iffy at this time of year . |
| 23 | When I first started thinking about Christmas , I decided to spend it alone and stuff myself with food . |
| 24 | After the fishes there come other sorts of creatures : sponges — ( This is the signal for washing , the little girls reach obediently for their sponges. ) — and long-streamered squids — ( She squeezes Xanthe 's sponge , whooshes it through the water , making siphon noises , then begins to wash her back and neck. ) — Seashells swim about as well . |