Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that something you can easily forget , pulling a man 's trousers on when he 's got handcuffs on and lying on his front ? |
| 2 | Write your plans below and evaluate at the next C.P.S. |
| 3 | Everyone bundled their possessions together and talked about where they would like to stay . |
| 4 | And when they tied up at Water Gypsy 's permanent moorings , he gathered his few possessions together and left with only the most perfunctory of farewells . |
| 5 | Robyn ground her teeth together and glared at him . |
| 6 | She felt him lace their fingers together and trembled with a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation . |
| 7 | She closed her eyes grimly and pointed at the table . |
| 8 | She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars . |
| 9 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 10 | One group have lost their legs altogether and taken to burrowing underground . |
| 11 | Mrs Stych opened her eyes slowly and looked at him as if he had gone mad . |
| 12 | In former ages certain masters had solved the problem by avoiding words entirely and resorting to pictures alone . |
| 13 | ‘ Just get your heads down and go for it , ’ was Nicholl 's message to his players yesterday . |
| 14 | For the first time we 've had to get our heads down and look at what we 're doing . |
| 15 | Mozart met Thomas , another musical prodigy , in Florence in 1770 , where they played violin duets together and engaged in friendly rivalry . |
| 16 | or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies |
| 17 | Some , ‘ … wiser than the rest , lay their heads together and resolved in council to be before-hand ’ and went with picks and shovels and opened the land around the monument to a depth of six feet . |
| 18 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 19 | As he got to the door he snatched his eyes away and blundered through the doorway . |
| 20 | My father threw his calipers away and went to Charlie Hancock the chemist , who made him up a bottle of oil from an old family recipe . |
| 21 | The kids at my new school all went round in little gangs , spoiling for a fight — nothing serious , just pushing other kids over and jeering at them . |
| 22 | One of his reasons for leaving the Navy had been his dislike of the social relations between officers and ratings — take three paces backwards and shout at them . |
| 23 | Spurred on again by a stream of oaths , it staggered a few paces further and sank to the ground , defeated . |
| 24 | Praxis says it is well down the development road of getting an ANDF installer up on another RISC , possibly the Inmos Transputer , whilst there are known to be several other key players keen to get installers up and running on their kit too ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 25 | An office colleague to whom I had told my story , went to Lochinver by train and bus a few months later and stayed at the same cottage . |
| 26 | ‘ For cutting animals up and disposing of them in a public place . ’ |
| 27 | He stared down at his knees , then stretched his legs out and gazed at his calves and feet . |
| 28 | As one of the ‘ older ’ helpers it was a little like going back to school as my two ‘ children ’ are now 28 and 25 and I do not have any grandchildren so holding babies of 18 months upwards and playing with youngsters was quite a change . |
| 29 | ‘ Did n't you say he had a wife and a couple of kids now and worked in Basingstoke ? |
| 30 | The improved colt quickened well to take it up over two furlongs out and went to the line clear of the dead-heaters Steinbeck and Wilde Rufo , with the latter subsequently disqualified when jockey Richard Quinn weighed in 6lb light . |