Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy had already hand-reared a male cub and successfully released it into the wild . |
| 2 | At journey 's end she folded over the top of the bag and thoughtfully replaced it behind the netting on the back of the seat in front . |
| 3 | ( and rightly linked it to the |
| 4 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 5 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |
| 6 | Until his brother took over the firm and promptly sold it to INCUBUS Oy . |
| 7 | Writing this from the standpoint of the narrator ( Arthur ) looking back to the sixteenth ( and last ) year of Philip , the youngest child of the Morgan household , we are told that Arthur kept a diary of that year — as indeed Edward had kept such a diary and later printed it in The Woodland Life . |
| 8 | A woman called Charlotte Culham gave evidence that she had often seen Mrs Dyer with small children , and also seen her with packages that resembled the bodies of small children . |
| 9 | Rachaela reduced the fifteen-pound necklace to the prescribed fourteen pounds and carefully replaced it with the price tag face down . |
| 10 | And even left them with a neighbour if they were If your neighbour was going to be in . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , how was I to know you were n't a sex-mad pervert who 'd broken in and hideously raped you before coming after me ? ’ |
| 12 | Teachers no doubt have suspected it , and maybe known it for themselves , but it is a fact that a large number of children at present leave school at sixteen knowing less mathematics than when they entered at eleven . |
| 13 | And she could n't have it put out that a servant girl had defied her and then abused her to her face , now could she ? |
| 14 | Halvard , I compressed one of the files ok and then mailed it to myself first to see if I was getting everything right . |
| 15 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 16 | It is a trick that might just save the life of the bird if a cat has caught it and then placed it on the ground for a moment before starting to pluck it . |
| 17 | ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman . |
| 18 | But he thought that it was as if Fael-Inis had somehow taken a shard of pure light and splintered it , and then scattered it about them . |
| 19 | Carritt bought it , correctly identified it as a lost early work , and magnanimously sold it to the National Gallery , London , far below the market price . |
| 20 | Sir Leon extended early parole to many more short-sentence prisoners and virtually abolished it for long-term offenders convicted on drugs , sex , arson , and violence charges . |
| 21 | She stifled an urge to brain her son with it , and instead placed it in the sink . |
| 22 | I bet you they would n't find it quite so glamorous if , instead of getting drunk and shooting her , he 'd got drunk and accidentally beaten her to death . |
| 23 | As the enclosure movement gained impetus towards the end of the eighteenth century , many of the poor could not afford the fences necessary to confirm their claim to the land , and therefore sold it to the wealthy ; those who could were often unable to raise a living on the poor land they acquired , and sold it too ; those who were squatters had no right to land at all and none to sell . |