Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [adv prt] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could throw them out and replace them with Bretons , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Gruagach had been following them , keeping just out of sight , waiting until they dismounted , ready to reach out and scoop them up and carry them back to Tara and the roasting spits … |
| 3 | While this may not create such serious problems if the dog is a small Jack Russell terrier , a larger dog could quite easily knock someone over and cause serious injury . |
| 4 | I think could chop them up and use them to make road surfaces with . |
| 5 | Cos I mean , yo you can easily chop them off and put summat else smaller on ca n't you with lamps on ? |
| 6 | The other table what we had before was better , was no much so much time involved , by the time you 'd screw them round and turn 'em , to saw them into blocks there was a lot of time involved in it . |
| 7 | When the Minotaur heard their cries it would seek them out and kill them . |
| 8 | ‘ Why do n't you strip me down and go over me with a scrubbin' brush ? ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes , when in funds , as he thought of it , he would spruce himself up and visit the West End where occasionally he would come across a wartime crony in a small , ex-officers ' club in South Kensington . |
| 10 | Once you have let anybody in they 'd chop you up and put you in their next stew |
| 11 | Then when he 'd done with her he 'd screw her up and throw her away . |
| 12 | They played a lively game of Hide ‘ N ’ Seek , where the little hedgehog would crawl away to hide in the weeds or under pile of leaves and the big beast would seek her out and bark loudly when he found her . |
| 13 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 14 | I was gon na screw it up and throw it at you . |
| 15 | And again , as Jimmy said , do n't knock the system , you know there are mistakes made but we do n't hang it up and say look know we 've made lots of mistakes , you 're , you 're undermining your own erm performance . |
| 16 | I wish I could hang it up and put on a new one ’ . ’ |
| 17 | It 'd make me pack it in and go to Canada if I was younger , but you ca n't leave England , can you ? ’ |
| 18 | But I would , I would like to just like pack it in and go . |
| 19 | Look how he blooded Speed and Batty … he did nt chuck them in and hope for the best . |
| 20 | And I only hope that in the end our roads will become so clogged with all these fume-belching cars and lorries that everyone will give them up and start going by train again . |
| 21 | A pensioner who 's been robbed of more than three thousand pounds in three months , says if the men are caught , the judge should lock them up and throw away the key . |
| 22 | no you ca n't lock them up and throw away the key , that 's that 's , in a Christian society , that 's not on , you 've got to do something to help them to rehabilitate themselves . |
| 23 | Downs said : ‘ If I said what I really thought about the ref , they would lock me up and throw away the key . ’ |
| 24 | A guy with a face like a tired wrestler says , ‘ Let's do them over and dump them somewhere . |
| 25 | ‘ If I find favour in the eyes of the Lord , he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation ; but if he says , ‘ I have no pleasure in you , ’ behold , here I am , let him do to me what seems good to him' ( 2 Sam . |
| 26 | ‘ Put the rest of your clothes out on the landing ; I 'll rinse them through and put them in the drier . |
| 27 | Morris clipped the papers together and tossed them across onto Dyson 's desk Dyson had for some reason assumed that Morris would bring them over and stand beside him while he went through them . |
| 28 | A top dressing of grit , though not essential , will show them off and avoid soil splashes on their delicate petals . |
| 29 | Only then did he zip himself up and reach for the telephone . |
| 30 | One of the ways she visualized life was as a swirling , unpredictable tide of confusion which swept you along helpless , bumping against rocks , trying to snatch at branches , bits of wreckage , anything that might help to keep you afloat for , if you did n't watch out , the waters would suck you down and close over your head . |