Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Cullam had noticed anything as he walked it would have been the rubbish , the flotsam that the river sucked in and gathered on Its journey through the meadows . |
| 2 | At the car , he reached to unlock her door , held it open for her , watched as she climbed in and reached for her strap . |
| 3 | At the Hulsta Mill , near Stockholm , thousands of trees are brought in and stripped of their bark every day . |
| 4 | She let herself in and ministered to their needs , brewing a pot of tea and lighting a good fire . |
| 5 | So I sat on this stool thing and Marie pulled the curtain and the light flashed twice and then Marie leaps in and sits on my lap , and it flashes again . |
| 6 | A nurse came in and asked for my X-rays and I remembered I had forgotten them . |
| 7 | She still woke often in the night full of strange forebodings , but with the Reverend Baron to confide in and laugh at her wilder interpretations of what she had dreamed , she survived better . |
| 8 | We came back from there back into the rooms that we having instructions in and continued with our lessons . |
| 9 | Well you have to go through all this rigmarole of paperwork , you ca n't just go in and hand over your book and say please can I have five pounds now then I want to go and buy a book or something . |
| 10 | This is payable to infirm or disabled people , ostensibly so that they can pay someone to come in and look after their needs . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been to see your husband , ’ she said — I did n't like that at all — ‘ and he asked me to tell you that if you do n't return home by the end of the week he is going to join forces with Kirsty Bull : she 's coming to live in and look after your children . ’ |
| 12 | Well I have n't been in and sat in our lounge this week . |
| 13 | Speaking as someone with a job I 've got to be very careful about giving advice to people who are in a much worse situation than myself , but from the research we did erm it is clear that it 's very important erm not just to sink in and dwell on your problems , not just to erm stay at home , not meeting other people , not engaging in activities . |
| 14 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 15 | ‘ It used to be really anarchic , but then all sorts of casuals started wearing in and yang on their hooded tops because it was trendy . ’ |
| 16 | The doorbell rang loudly ; Claudia put her cup down and got to her feet . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't remind me what floor it is , lady , ’ Broomhead said quickly , jumping down and reaching for his horse 's nosebag which was strapped beneath the seat . |
| 18 | Shrugging her superb shoulders , Comfort sat down and waited for his explanation . |
| 19 | She sat down and stared at her ice cream . |
| 20 | She looked down and stared at her hands , willing herself to hold on to her sanity . |
| 21 | She murmured good morning , sat down and stared at her open notebook , the tip of her pen poised above the clean page . |
| 22 | He put his knife and fork down and stared at his plate . |
| 23 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 24 | But I did n't really have time or the ability to sit down and think about their whole term 's work which is what I had to do really . |
| 25 | He hunkered down and looked into his brother 's face . |
| 26 | The adjutant settled down and looked through his notes . |
| 27 | Instead of bending over her , he knelt down and looked at her face through the bars . |
| 28 | A driver has been remanded on bail after three women from the same family were knocked down and killed on their way home from a funeral . |
| 29 | Jackson recently sat down and listened through his collected works , prior to making selections for the current live show , and found the thread wearing a little thin in places . |
| 30 | He put the phone down and listened to its ringing — its machine persistence . |