Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn into a lightly floured board and knead gently for a few minutes . |
| 2 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 3 | A DEAF woman with speech difficulties was stunned , sexually assaulted and stabbed repeatedly by a killer who got into the flat where she lived alone , a court was told yesterday . |
| 4 | Rose tells me he 's back and peacocking about as a vicar . ’ |
| 5 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 6 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 7 | Ten minutes later he was down and seated across from a young duty captain as they travelled the fast-link that connected the City to the spaceport . |
| 8 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |
| 9 | The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion . |
| 10 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 11 | The animal has been surveyed and laid off like a map ; and the men have been classified in over thirty specialties and twenty rates of pay , from 16 cents to 50 cents an hour . |
| 12 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 13 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 14 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 15 | A delicately ludicrous picture comes into Howard 's mind of an enthusiastic little hiker with a rucksack on his back , trying to walk up the side of the Matterhorn , and tumbling back with an astonished look on his face . |
| 16 | Mounted knights struggled across two abreast , and plunged immediately into a marsh . |
| 17 | However , as the Democratic nominees left their convention and plunged immediately into an eight-state overland campaign tour through the Midwest , Clinton was recording opinion poll ratings of up to 30 percentage points ahead of Bush . |
| 18 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 19 | ‘ This way , ’ she said firmly , and plunged off into a perfumery hall of gleaming marble , as lush as some Byzantine church . |
| 20 | Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck . |
| 21 | The huge main doors were gilt over bronze and led out to a stairway that swept up to an entrance vestibule lined with Algerian onyx . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I 'd come and stay here for a bit . |
| 23 | My parents are going to France at Christmas and erm I do n't wan na go with them really and nor does Digby so he , Digby 's gon na come and stay just for a bit and my house it has to be empty and Foxy 's coming round to stay . |
| 24 | " Come and sit here for a bit . |
| 25 | During the half-halts , be strong with leg and positive with a blocking hand , then relax and sit quietly with a light contact , repeating this until the penny finally drops . |
| 26 | My son would adore it — my comfort-loving daughter would work hard to achieve a ganglion before leaving and sit contentedly by a log fire for the duration with a good book and a hot Ribena . |
| 27 | Sometimes I go into a public-house and sit there with a glass of lemonade in my hand , eavesdropping , hoping to hear some treasonable conversation . |
| 28 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 29 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 30 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |