Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Syl 's mother disapproved of this most bitterly and rebuked me for waste . |
| 2 | All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her . |
| 3 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 4 | Come down now and help us with the boat . ’ |
| 5 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 6 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 7 | You come down here and tell me about the time you went to the Abacos . ’ |
| 8 | During this fabulous weekend , we cut out our material , linings and so on and prepared them for sewing . |
| 9 | In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic . |
| 10 | Come and sit down there and do it with Mummy . |
| 11 | Hastily she dashed the back of her hand over her eyes , stapled the minutes together neatly and folded them into their respective envelopes . |
| 12 | At eleven she sent Gwenellen to take over temporarily and took me into the duty-room . |
| 13 | And then just up and shoot him in the good old British way . |
| 14 | And so they started putting people downstairs everywhere and shoving them in corners that nobody even . |
| 15 | She really was more than half-minded to take them downstairs again and post them through the hole in the mahogany skirting board of the dining-room where they could lie in wait for crumbs of bread and cheese and apple peels that she would be careful to drop … |
| 16 | She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way . |
| 17 | We start aspirin early on and continue it throughout the hospitalisation . |
| 18 | However , it might be useful to admit the document as an aid to interpretation and publish it ( with appropriate amendments ) along with the Act or even to re-work it more fundamentally and present it as a formal preamble . |
| 19 | Among other things , smoking makes the blood clot more easily and puts him at risk of another heart attack , which may be less mild than the first . |
| 20 | If the Americans refused permission to land , he said , he would simply take off anyway and embarrass them into giving landing permission from above Newark airport . |
| 21 | And then one day he 'd come home early and found her in bed with someone else . |
| 22 | Government concern is to develop what the Foreign Office called a mechanism to turn people round more quickly and prevent them from arriving at a destination where they were unwanted . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd take your clothes off now and prove it to you , ’ he said thickly , and his hands were shaking as they held her by the hips . |
| 24 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 25 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 26 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | Do n't waste another night , she said ; if there is somebody here you want then you go right up and tell him about it , you just tell him , because he may not be here tomorrow night . |
| 28 | He dropped his briefcase on the chesterfield , and Mrs Stych snatched it up crossly and took it into his den , while he went to the refrigerator in search of ice cubes for a drink . |
| 29 | ‘ So off I went , and when I got to the Severn Bridge , I thought to myself , ‘ I can go straight on and take him to Potter 's and get about four hundred quid carcase value , or turn right for the University and probably have nothing … |
| 30 | She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man . |