Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] and [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Christmas and new year is our time to let our hair down and sit our old traditional ballads . |
| 2 | Muttering very unscientific speculations in a number of alien languages about the car 's origins and usefulness , the Doctor kept his foot down and did his best to avoid the holes in the road . |
| 3 | If er you 've had dreadful experiences with er guests staying at your place , give me a ring on and share your horrid experiences with me . |
| 4 | How could she , Melanie , have ever guessed that her uncle would be a monster with a voice so loud she was afraid it would bring the roof down and bury them all ? |
| 5 | ‘ You can live quite cheaply in Miami , so once you 're out there on one job , you can contact other UK clients and get them to send the gear over and keep you busy for a few weeks . |
| 6 | Steve and his wife use it to keep the weight off and ensure their 3 young daughters get the balanced diet the experts say they need . |
| 7 | She wound the window down and watched her own reflection disappear . |
| 8 | A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment . |
| 9 | Which is more than you ever were with me — until , of course , that last day at the office when you took the lid off and let it all boil over — all the things that had been bugging you . ’ |
| 10 | Their chance to do anything but keep their head down and hope it all goes away , is hopeless . ’ |
| 11 | When she moved in Virginia Woolf was thirty-seven and had published her first novel The Voyage Out and had her second , Night and Day , accepted ; all her other books were to be in part written at Monk 's House . |
| 12 | She flung her head back and resumed her graceful stride . |
| 13 | He stroked her hair back and cupped her flushed face in his hands . |
| 14 | and th they , it was an old Indian treatment , they found it quite , sheer force of circumstances , er , that they discovered it was better sometimes to bind a wound up and leave it alone . |
| 15 | go up and borrow Matt 's , get your dressing gown on and make yourself some toast , right ? |
| 16 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 17 | I took my automatic out and rested its cold metal on Rhonda 's paper torso . |
| 18 | Anne 's just saying we erm ought to pull that whole sta dance floor out and have it all flat floored . |
| 19 | you might not know what happens when you waggle this stick about and press your left foot up and down . |
| 20 | Andrew set his cup down and unravelled his long legs . |
| 21 | He took a long swig , put the glass down and wiped his mis-shaven upper lip contentedly . |
| 22 | Doyle drew his restless gaze from the banks of silent consoles , and the rows of operators , many of them girls hardly out of school , and watched Cowley tear the sheet off and finish his cursory read of the contents . |
| 23 | I 've had the front hub off and checked it all , renewing the gasket but still it seems to be losing oil.l hope you can help as I do n't really want to get the garage to sort it out as it will cost a small fortune . |
| 24 | This practically ruined him but rather than take the easy way out and declare himself bankrupt , he called a meeting of his creditors and asked for time to pay . |