Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to make two of these sails for us to try and we later purchased a third from association funds . |
| 2 | The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement . |
| 3 | Women of all ages were shouting and I clearly saw a handbag swung overarm . |
| 4 | Ideally , of course , the best support for any kind of camera is to mount it on a tripod , but tripods are awkward things to carry and they also have a dampening effect on spontaneity . |
| 5 | The edge of the dorsal fin is not tapered and they often exhibit a dark band running along the flank from the eye to the caudal fin . |
| 6 | to write again and again you know And you never get a positive answer , clear answer first , first time round do you ? |
| 7 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 8 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
| 9 | His hair was tousled and he still looked a little sleepy , but he was fully dressed , which made her feel at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 10 | Well , I told you what potherbs was , potherbs is what you buy , you go and you perhaps get a couple of sticks of c celery , that was taken off the side , you know ? |
| 11 | A hundred and seventy or so girls from all over Oxfordshire gathered at Iffley Road this afternoon to learn about scrummaging … rucking and what exactly constitutes a forward pass . |
| 12 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 13 | Birds nested in the eighteenth-century ballroom but the chapel was carefully maintained and she also retained a butler and a chauffeur for the Rolls-Royce . |
| 14 | He told the jury : ‘ Mo is disabled but he can crawl and he also has a car . |