Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
| 2 | Sarah 's young sister Kate came in and offered to do her step dancing to one of the records . |
| 3 | After that , they broke in and began to steal whatever they could carry away — little things at first , like crockery and silver , but later on the furniture went as well . |
| 4 | Peter came in and began to chat me up . |
| 5 | ‘ Michael was in a play in London and he came in and kept asking me to play Donovan 's Catch the Wind , ’ recalled Gabrielle . |
| 6 | When Jennie came in and asked to see what we were doing , we were giggling so much , she would say , ‘ What are yer giggling at , yer little monkeys ? ’ |
| 7 | This diversity accounts for the mutually contradictory complaints that are frequently voiced by village locals : that the newcomers come in and try to run everything or that they take no part in village life and are not ‘ involved ’ . |
| 8 | We take her in and try to comfort her , but she just pines . |
| 9 | And walk in and expect to see them all in order . |
| 10 | ‘ And OK , I get carried away like today when the pigs wade in and start throwing their weight about . ’ |
| 11 | The fingers move gently in and start to tickle it or rub its face and then , without warning , grab it and pick it up . |
| 12 | I said mark the chap that she 's got at the moment is taking her out to discos and things and she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 13 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 14 | His mother screaming as she was raped ; his brother bursting from their hiding place to run in and try to save her . |
| 15 | ‘ One man got in and tried to strangle him but I pulled him off , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Now you may have a customer that comes into the shop at A and they need something desperately , they walk in the sho , may walk in and say look I need that compact disc player , my life depends on having compact disc player and shopkeeper no see now we have n't got it . |
| 17 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
| 18 | The number of sleepless nights I 've had over that smooth bastard moving in and Jozef kicking me out of bed . ’ |
| 19 | Later still My silly wee sister has put her feet down and refuses to let me near her Power Pack . |
| 20 | JOHN ROBB watches them flap their pop stars lips , jump up and down and spazz dance their way across the world . |
| 21 | JOHN ROBB watches them flap their pop stars lips , jump up and down and spazz dance their way across the world . |
| 22 | Last night Theresa 's 28-year-old Colombian boy-friend broke down and admitted killing her to police in 'Arad , southern Israel . |
| 23 | A practical testing of Professor David Tweedie 's long-held wish for a ‘ hanging case ’ for the Financial Reporting Review Panel was frustrated at the last minute when Trafalgar House backed down and agreed to restate its 1991 figures in its next published accounts . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They had already put the beds down and had to move them . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He put the quill down and went to see what she wanted . |
| 28 | You 're impatient to see the whole valley turned upside down and shaken to get him out . ’ |
| 29 | He sat her down and began to unfasten her coat . |
| 30 | As he bent down and began to force his way through the undergrowth he could taste alcohol in his mouth . |