Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 2 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 3 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 4 | Larsen then passed the window pane down to Grant , and lowered himself through in turn . |
| 5 | The candlelight had taken his cheap suit and made it over in some priceless fabric . |
| 6 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 7 | His score was later duplicated by Carl Watts ( Hawkstone ) , who notched five birdies and got it back in 31 . |
| 8 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |
| 9 | Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother . |
| 10 | Someone had seen the open door , and fastened it up in a fit of misplaced zeal . |
| 11 | She took one of my mother 's gingham breakfast napkins from a drawer and wrung it out in cold water . |
| 12 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 13 | And sometimes , as had happened to her last Sunday in church , he came in person and snatched them up in his everlasting arms . |
| 14 | He fitted on a plug and tried it out in his room , closing the curtains . |
| 15 | So then I began to be really pretty busy with running the office and then keeping my home , but I 'd got a husband who was very , very , handy and helped me out in the home you know . |
| 16 | Lili had already smoked three cigarettes and stubbed them out in her saucer , devil-may-care , and Mrs Monro had said nothing . |
| 17 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
| 18 | Mr Chan grabbed him and lifted him out in his arms . |
| 19 | He opened the pen and lifted it out in his arms . |
| 20 | Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office . |
| 21 | Outside the Brompton Oratory he hailed a cab , directed it to Marylebone and paid it off in George Street , completing his journey on foot . |
| 22 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 23 | The last read her a lecture , told her he would not disoblige her father by employing her , and turned her out in the street like an errant daughter . |
| 24 | Sandison took the hat and turned it over in his hands . |
| 25 | Jack took it from her and turned it over in his hand . |
| 26 | Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt . |
| 27 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 28 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 29 | Traditionally , African beer is drunk from a large cup , passed round the groups of drinkers , but in this village they had a different technique : they brewed the stuff in an old oil drum and served it up in buckets . |
| 30 | In fact , I made a major decision in '84 , and followed it through in '86 . |