Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You see , he came from a family of ten lads and four lasses and food was the main object in their lives ; and if you were n't careful and hung on to your plate one or the other swiped it . ’ |
| 32 | Nail clippers might also be required to prevent dew-claws from becoming overgrown and curling round into the dog 's flesh . |
| 33 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 34 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 35 | Pick somewhere public and stay out of his reach if you 're worried about being forced . |
| 36 | She joined the old South of Scotland Electricity Board in 1976 as a legal assistant — the first female solicitor it had employed — but by 1980 wanted to do something different and went back to university with the company 's blessing ( and a scholarship ) to get an MBA . |
| 37 | Both are no doubt splendid residences in their own ways , but the fact is they are different and lived in by different people . |
| 38 | As a young schoolgirl I had always wanted to do something different and to work out of doors , but as I progressed along the educational road these objectives had somehow receded to be overtaken by the more accepted priorities of passing exams and going to university . |
| 39 | However , there are those who need to learn to become assertive and come out of themselves , or to overcome their fears . |
| 40 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 41 | Our way was up to one of the few glacier tongues that was n't too steep and broken up by crevasses . |
| 42 | The second Lady Deverill , also riding side-saddle and turned out in a quite immaculate habit , pulled up alongside Artemis on a bay Artemis had n't seen before . |
| 43 | Although at first it may prove excitable and run off around the garden , the puppy should soon return to you . |
| 44 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 45 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 46 | The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database . |
| 47 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 48 | And , try to keep warm and keep out of this wind . |
| 49 | The woman turned round and saw that the red crow was perched on the balustrade , flapping its wings like a man trying to keep warm and looking in at them , its head cocked to one side . |
| 50 | The loading bay had old roll-across galvanised doors , twisted and battered out of shape and just about held together by a new-looking chain sheathed in blue plastic . |
| 51 | Now it is fallen upon and twisted and embellished out of all recognition . |
| 52 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 53 | ‘ And if one man did just what you say is impossible and slipped in on the darkside ? ’ |
| 54 | I thought you were supposed to be low and submissive and made out of Adam 's rib , and you were n't supposed to leave the house excessively . |
| 55 | Keep it simple and build up on it |
| 56 | Even the jar looked costly , Alida thought , chalice-shaped , gilt-lidded and made out of what could so easily have been milk-glass . |
| 57 | The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form . |
| 58 | If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top . |
| 59 | This entails starting early and topping up with repeat spraying on the young growth every few days . |
| 60 | We rose early and sailed back among the flying fish to Kalkan . |