Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] and [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert patted his hair down and tried to formulate a few opening remarks . |
| 2 | He put the card down and began serving out the oeufs soubise from the dish in front of him . |
| 3 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 4 | Pressing the gas pedal to the floor , he swung the car out and began to overtake . |
| 5 | I whipped the key out and turned to run through the Square only to find Shifty-Eyes standing blocking the pavement . |
| 6 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 7 | In the light of kitchen she sat Maggie down and started to brush gently at her shoulders , but after a minute or so she said , |
| 8 | Maureen said she had got the keys back and intended to try them in the desk , to see whether they were a duplicate set and her father 's complaints could have been justified . |
| 9 | Bryony took the toast out and began to smear it with tomato chutney . |
| 10 | I spluttered , stepping back , dripping , while Helen took the can back and stood grinning . |
| 11 | They had already put the beds down and had to move them . ’ |
| 12 | He had gone up as usual to turn Willie 's lamp down and had found him sitting up in bed with one of his library books lying open on his knees . |
| 13 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 14 | ‘ They told me that I should have put my whip down and tried to stop my horse from hanging . ’ |
| 15 | She put her head down and began to cry . |
| 16 | I put my head down and kept stroking . |
| 17 | On 2 March however , they were called upon to play a more central part in the defence , as Desmond Vincent-Jones relates : ‘ The day started auspiciously when an Heinkel 111 suddenly appeared out of the dawn mist with undercarriage down and started to make an approach to the main runway , presumably mistaking Hal Far for its own base airfield in Sicily . |
| 18 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 19 | He jollied people along and did get useful information out of them , made useful contacts , brought useful business the organisation 's way . |
| 20 | When he had filled that side , he turned the page over and continued to make notes , completely disregarding the pencil sketch that had been begun . |
| 21 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 22 | Silently , Tessa switched the television off and began to clear the table . |
| 23 | With her eyes still crossed , she stuck her tongue out and tried to curl it upwards . |
| 24 | He put the quill down and went to see what she wanted . |
| 25 | And then when she was fully dressed , she shut the closet door over and stood looking at herself in the mirror which was on the other side . |
| 26 | He took his belt off and started whacking Chrissie with it . |
| 27 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 28 | I put my chin up and tried to stiffen my upper lip , but found I did n't seem to have any muscles in it . |
| 29 | Then she put her cup down and began to speak in a soft , sad , dreaming voice that seemed to weave a spell of silence in the room . |
| 30 | She put the kettle down and turned to face him . |