Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As glossy as a fashion-plate , Karl jumped up , grasped Herr Nordern 's hand , and beamed into his face . |
| 2 | He took the cigarette holder out of his wide mouth and beamed at his visitor , his Roosevelt smile , warm and toothy . |
| 3 | What she did see was hair the colour of rich , ruby port wine , swept up , somehow , from the forehead and hanging past her shoulders in a heavy , shining mass that curled under at the sides and bottom like a long page-boy bob . |
| 4 | Yvonne says , fanning her mouth and hanging onto my arm . |
| 5 | Infants who die of dehydration , their tongues blackened ( their mothers say ) and hanging from their mouths , compete for attention with equally brutal images of thirst-driven sertanejos who walk hundreds of kilometres to escape the drought of the sertão or hinterland . |
| 6 | I see me in my shame , the horror of this hour ; mascara fallout littering my face like ashes , my skin dank with the sweat of Crilly and myself , my underwear torn and hanging from my hips , and me , small and stoned and sobbing , beneath the stern emphatic white of Siobhan 's cross . |
| 7 | Frank leaned forward and whispered through his translator . |
| 8 | ‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’ |
| 9 | Lee took them from her and kissed her and whispered in her ear : ‘ Be nice to Conrad , ’ because she knew Philippa considered him decadent and damned . |
| 10 | He kissed her again , on the forehead this time , and whispered in her ear , ‘ Kiss me back , McAllister . |
| 11 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 12 | She stepped forward on tiptoe and whispered in his ear . |
| 13 | Suddenly the old man grabbed him and whispered in his ear , ‘ Shh ! |
| 14 | She flinched , and whispered in his ear , ‘ Ouch , you 're pulling at my wool . ’ |
| 15 | " This way we 'll get to see more of the real Saigon , " he said loudly for the benefit of their father — then he winked confidentially at Joseph and whispered in his ear : " And the last one there is a horse 's ass . |
| 16 | A servant scurried in , leaned over Sir Richard 's shoulder and whispered in his ear . |
| 17 | The man behind me leant forward and whispered in my ear , ‘ Tell that guy to quit yapping will you ? |
| 18 | At midnight , the nice Salvation Army wife , who had travelled with us , shook my arm and whispered in my ear , ‘ Be careful , there 's a man at your feet . |
| 19 | After dinner on our last night , then , while Anne was pouring coffee at the sideboard , Poppy walked behind my chair and whispered in my ear . |
| 20 | A courtier leaned over and whispered in my ear . |
| 21 | They manhandled Mr Reagan to the side of the stage and pounced on his attacker , forcing him over the podium to check him for any possible weapons before dragging him away . |
| 22 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 23 | In a society that legitimises its forms of truth by appeal to ‘ science ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ , a person 's case will certainly appear stronger if she or he can demonstrate that the other side is ‘ context-bound ’ and limited in their deployment of such logical abilities as ‘ abstraction ’ . |
| 24 | I have to say that I find this criticism surprising since , as I have already said , the section is in my judgment clear , unambiguous and limited in its scope . |
| 25 | It squeaked and jingled on its hinges as they swung it behind them . |
| 26 | She went to the till , which jounced and jingled at her bidding . |
| 27 | I see him sluggish and stoned in my mind 's eye , his ginger hair and heavy lidded eyes , his clammy , groping hands and nothing to call his own . |
| 28 | The Wilton weaving department was moved and centralised into its present location . |
| 29 | Faced with a massive majority in the House of Commons and racked by their own internal problems , for much of the decade the opposition parties had a distinctly toothless appearance . |
| 30 | We noticed the wide range of realizations in chapter 4 ( table 4.2 , p. 97 ) and commented on its regularity . |