Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not wave a magic wand and change the season around . |
| 2 | Two others , wearing raincoats over their underwear , would be waiting at the bar or similar , ready to join the fray shouting ‘ Boozebusters ’ and things like ‘ Your wife/secretary/boss is taking you out of here now ! ’ and then they would spray foam , throw cards , pop party-poppers and so on and drag the victim out to a waiting fast car . |
| 3 | So now she got up carefully , her nightdress clinging damply to her body , and laid the sheet back over her sleeping husband with as much respect as if he had been dead . |
| 4 | She cleared these things to one side and laid the cigar down in the middle of the dressing-table . |
| 5 | After a very short time , he stopped , and laid the bowl down . |
| 6 | In the next attack Toman again ran at the defence and laid the ball off for the supporting Les McJannet ten yards out , but the full back was denied by a last ditch tackle . |
| 7 | This GLEB report focused mainly on the manufacturing aspect of the independent sector and recommended the setting up of a modern plant to make records for the smaller companies . |
| 8 | In detail , the Council 's planning policy applies to the mainland of Orkney and divided the island up into different zones . |
| 9 | The Guardian reporter praised their ‘ soft man/hard man routine : Nields offers the witness a comfortable chair and a cigarette , Liman slaps him round the face and kicks the chair out from underneath him . ’ |
| 10 | There was a bedroom to their left , at the front of the house , and Carson pushed open the opposite door and led the way through into the sitting-room , switching on the light as he went . |
| 11 | He poured himself a glass and led the way through to his large music room . |
| 12 | The children , however , were persistent and led the way round to the side of the building , stopping at what had probably been a small parcels office . |
| 13 | Claudia got up , opened the door and led the way out . |
| 14 | He waved the men-at-arms in the ante-room imperiously out of his path , and led the way out without even turning his head to make sure that Harry was following . |
| 15 | Marguerite pulled herself together and led the way back into the room they had first entered . |
| 16 | I unlocked the door and led the way in . |
| 17 | Schellenberg tapped on a door , opened it and led the way in . |
| 18 | So Chola took her downstairs and led the bull out of its dark stable into the adjoining sheep-pen , which was enclosed by stone walls , but without a roof so there was light to see . |
| 19 | Outside , in the concourse , the bear-leader passed the chain round the bear 's neck , made a noose of it , and led the bear back to the Underground . |
| 20 | She got it out and wiped the blood off , but in vain ; it appeared again in a moment . |
| 21 | Cut the lime and squeeze the juice over before serving . |
| 22 | ‘ All right ! ’ he shouted , jumping up and slapping the paper down on the table . |
| 23 | I leapt up , ninja 'd over to Gav 's bed and wheeched the duvet off . |
| 24 | ‘ I put last season 's success down to Trevor Anderson coming in and firing the team up after Eric Bowyer 's departure . |
| 25 | nothing went round and unplugged every phone out , wedged every one out cos we thought it might of been a station that 's going down , cos er I 'm saying about the mark one , the old |
| 26 | She reaches over and brushes the hair off of my eyes . |
| 27 | Spike : Another word for the smash , where you jump up by the net and whack the ball down with your hand . |
| 28 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 29 | We we 're , we 're quite , we 're quite pleased , you know , say well let's see if we can get it going and , and make a success out of it . |
| 30 | My answer to that is go and make a project out of the politics of your own life ! |