Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered if Ethel would relent and change her back , or whether she might be really wicked enough to leave her as a frog , for ever . |
| 2 | Put him on so and so , and so and so on that , and change them about . |
| 3 | Then Paul has to get the Tipp-Ex out and change everything round , but it never really looks right . |
| 4 | and they go and drag somebody up in |
| 5 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 6 | If Kelly could see her now she 'd throw up her hands in horror and drag her off to the nearest restaurant to order the biggest meal on the menu . |
| 7 | ‘ So then I grab hold of Christine and drag her out . |
| 8 | When I got to the spot , I groped beneath the water to try and find him and drag him up , but could feel nothing . |
| 9 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 10 | He let Coffin go up and drag him out . |
| 11 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 12 | It calls for the qualities of a fighter , for only with those qualities can we win through the constant traps and barriers laid by the forces that would block our path and drag us down . |
| 13 | I was sweating , you could imagine thinking God we 're going to have to take the wheels off and drag it through with a tractor or something like that on skids , cos we needed the van for Monday and there was n't going to be a lot of t But then suddenly yes a again I suddenly th |
| 14 | To find out what sort of bottom exists in a swim just stick on a heavy leger and drag it back towards you . |
| 15 | I think it is often worthwhile to stick with a basic idea and develop it in as many ways as possible . |
| 16 | ‘ People would expect me to come into a room and crack them up , ’ Rowan , 36 , told Cosmopolitan magazine . |
| 17 | And take so much off and pat it up and then then wrap it , very nice and neatly . |
| 18 | Maybe we should drive round to Fahan and track them down . ’ |
| 19 | try and track it down |
| 20 | Why do n't you just pull your socks up and smarten yourselves up ? |
| 21 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 22 | I need her to hold my hand and sit me down . |
| 23 | But come in , my dears , and sit yourselves down . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You can take yer bonnet off and sit yerself down . |
| 25 | ‘ Come in , Mr Brayton and sit yourself down . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Come and sit yourself down , ’ he invited . |
| 27 | The seriousness of the revolt was evidenced by the fact that Soapy Simon , an arch-appeaser who wanted above everything to be liked , had become their spokesman and had let them cram into his room and sit it out ( with a break for dinner at the Savoy , of course ) until the PM gave his answer . |
| 28 | I 've seen my mam take sheets off a bed and tear them up in squares . |
| 29 | And tear it down . |
| 30 | So if you 're wandering around and you want to write somebody a quick note , you do n't have to open the rings and take out a piece of paper , you just write on here and tear it off . |