Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] " 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 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 6 | Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate . |
| 7 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 8 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 9 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 10 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 11 | ‘ When I had to send the Women to fetch you every step of the way , child — and pick you up every time you fell ? |
| 12 | You can buy them one day and bring them back the next |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 15 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She folded her slip and draped it over a chair . |
| 18 | Doreen stepped out of her slip , and draped it over a chair . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 21 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 22 | Riven 's slung arm hampered him , and he pulled the sling off irritably and stuffed it down the front of his jerkin , moving his arm in circles . |
| 23 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 24 | Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window . |
| 25 | I laugh and push him up the last step . |
| 26 | ‘ You can get a man inside it , and they 'll tie a heavy stone to the King 's body and push it down the pipe . |
| 27 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The corpse 's bracelet was beginning to squeal ; Fox dragged it off and flung it down the stairwell ; she did n't hear it land . |
| 30 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |