Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 2 | Our university hosts led us into a room bedecked with tinsel and flashing fairy lights , and seated us around a circular table covered with elaborate cold starters . |
| 3 | And , having decided upon that fact , he took her arm and led her along a track she had not previously explored . |
| 4 | They must have walked for about another ten minutes and could glimpse the blue wood-smoke rising above the trees from Godstowe village when suddenly the porter stopped , turned left , and led them along a narrow beaten trackway into the forest . |
| 5 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 6 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 7 | She folded her slip and draped it over a chair . |
| 8 | Doreen stepped out of her slip , and draped it over a chair . |
| 9 | And she teased her out and straightened her up a little , and then she went over to the makeup table and tore off a length of the soft toilet roll that she used instead of Kleenex , and then she sat on the floor beside Lucy and put her arm around her shoulders . |
| 10 | Their gaze locked for a long moment as he pulled the towel from his neck and flung it over a rail , then , suddenly embarrassed , she looked away . |
| 11 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 12 | Got involved and cooled it down a bit and er and found some of the people some premises , and I think got them some money from Duke of Edinburgh award scheme or something , to buy music music equipment . |
| 13 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 14 | You know , hold her hand and cheer her up a bit . |
| 15 | And you can look at it one way , and say , oh I 've got , I 've got two rows here with six in , and space them out a bit so , or give him that so he 's got sort of , two rows with six in , and you say , oh from where you 're looking at it , it 's six rows with two in . |
| 16 | your horn and cut him up a bit . |
| 17 | Forest-living Indians catch them and roast them over a fire so that the poison drips from their skins . |
| 18 | She snatched up a square of tissue paper , deftly swung and twisted it round a fat brioche . |
| 19 | Chop the vegetables and heat them over a low flame . |
| 20 | However , if the force-carrying particles have a high mass , it will be difficult to produce and exchange them over a large distance . |
| 21 | It 's just the pocket really let's turn you round a bit see if it hurts it 's just the way it is I 'm afraid see if we can open it up and spread it out a bit . |
| 22 | I peel off my clothes , and put them over a low branch . |
| 23 | Stok took off his evening-dress jacket and put it over a hanger that was lying on my open suitcase . |
| 24 | Do you want Ann to go and whip you up an apple crumble ? |
| 25 | Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden . |
| 26 | He stared , somewhat appalled , as she lifted the wig like a hat and dropped it over a cut-glass vase . |
| 27 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 28 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 29 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |
| 30 | When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well . |