Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left the mines eventually and got a job with a builder — he could turn his hand to anything — one of those men , you know , plumbing , anything . |
| 2 | There was thus some political pressure from Conservative Ministers to ensure that Boards allocated overheads to their contracting activities properly and secured an economic profit , but the contractors ' association director was so politically inept in following this up that Citrine had no difficulty in exposing him to Whitehall as a biased anti-nationaliser who was unwilling to accept a reasonable accommodation . |
| 3 | They should have got the solicitors in and said ‘ look you 've no rights to have been here , you walked on this common land without any permission at all , you built these places without you 've got cars park and everything ’ , and now I listen to the story where the council says they 're going to run it etc. etc and etc , well what the people want , they want it cleared up , they want it back to where it was , we do n't want somebody running another business out there , this is the idea of getting him off . |
| 4 | The tennis equipment specialists , Head , had brought some racquets and accessories along and had also set up a ‘ speed-gun ’ to record service speeds . |
| 5 | A little boy came out of the woods opposite and began skiing down the slope towards the road . |
| 6 | For example , in the MISLIP project teachers in different subjects ( biology , history , English ) found that the microcomputer helped pupils to plan projects better and improved the motivation of pupils ; while the school librarian at Bankhead Academy pointed to the use of a wider range of resources by pupils in the school library . |
| 7 | Robyn ground her teeth together and glared at him . |
| 8 | He put the chains down and stood up . |
| 9 | Lorton swept the coins together and crammed them into the box . |
| 10 | Meredith rubbed reddened fingers together and went round to the boot to unload her wares . |
| 11 | Instead , resting his elbows on his papers , he laced his fingers together and regarded her over them . |
| 12 | Couville tapped his fingers together and narrowed his eyes . |
| 13 | He laced his fingers together and sat back . |
| 14 | She felt him lace their fingers together and trembled with a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation . |
| 15 | Burger put the tips of his fingers together and considered what he would say . |
| 16 | Sara walked beyond the crowd and put her cases down and waited . |
| 17 | Without further hesitation they gathered their sticks together and boarded the five Bristol Bombays , squeezing themselves into the fuselages among the piles of equipment that were to be dropped with them . |
| 18 | Parties , in many respects , were no longer taken seriously by the voters ; many more people now disavowed parties altogether and declared themselves to be independents . |
| 19 | Corbett rubbed his eyes wearily and wondered when he would rest from this interminable business , who the attackers of yesterday were and , more importantly , who had paid them ? |
| 20 | She closed her eyes grimly and pointed at the table . |
| 21 | His wife rolled her eyes rather and murmured , ‘ And I get to hear about it every day , ’ as her husband hastened away to show us his computer print-out from the medical laboratory . |
| 22 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 23 | She licked her lips nervously and made every effort to appear casual . |
| 24 | She licked her lips nervously and tried to simulate deep interest in the scenery outside , which was difficult , since there was very little to see in the rapidly failing light . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think we expected anything else , ’ said Floy , with complete courtesy and Caspar hunched his shoulders crossly and said , ‘ There might be a plan . |
| 26 | Arty opened his eyes slowly and inclined his head towards a notice on the door — a notice he had put there himself . |
| 27 | Mrs Stych opened her eyes slowly and looked at him as if he had gone mad . |
| 28 | Ragged Dick opened his eyes slowly and stared stupidly in the face of the speaker , but did not offer to get up . |
| 29 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 30 | He opened his eyes slowly and yawned , stretching his satiated body between the warm sheets with the lazy sensuousness of a cat . |