Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] next to " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , then she comes and sits down next to us . |
| 2 | A cowboy sauntered over to the bar , and sidled up next to them . |
| 3 | In our half-hour chat , I meet Little Brother ( ‘ He always comes in when you want to shag your girlfriend ’ ) ; the Gits ( ‘ They like looking through the obituaries and camping out next to accident black spots ’ ) ; Lee and Lance ( ‘ a couple of garage owners , they spend all their time putting Garfield stickers on cars ’ ) ; and Euro-Man ( ‘ as far as he 's concerned , the Euro-Parliament is just one big Amsterdam squat ’ ) . |
| 4 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 5 | ‘ No ; they were sort of folded and put in next to each other , on edge . ’ |
| 6 | With a noisy roar the car shot across the road and crawled along next to her , travelling against the oncoming flow of traffic . |
| 7 | Glancing over my shoulder to make sure he had n't seen me , I jostled my way to the rear and sat down next to a window . |
| 8 | ‘ After all , you do n't have to drive to get home any more , do you ? ’ and then he went and sat down next to the tourist . |
| 9 | Bodie entered the gallery and sat down next to Cowley , grimacing as he saw the open-heart operation below . |
| 10 | But then he smiled , and sat down next to her . |
| 11 | He just put the Thing down on the floor and sat down next to it , and watched them . |
| 12 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 13 | He came out on to the balcony with the bottle and sat down next to her . |
| 14 | Jealous of Lubor ? ’ and did n't know where she was when , as if he did n't think much of sitting opposite her in one chair while she had the huge couch all to herself , Ven suddenly moved from his chair and came and sat down next to her on the couch . |