Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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31 and then er dad and Mike come down in the Sierra and met us in the pub .
32 He slipped out and went to his tent , got his revolver , and emptied it in the direction of Woolley 's tent .
33 Or you can go flying with Dumbo and lose yourself in the wonderland of ‘ Alice 's Curious Labyrinth . ’ .
34 Swallow a pint instead , and lose yourself in the waves of The Little Fish .
35 Perhaps you could go and fight in one of those wars they 're always having somewhere and lose yourself in the din of battle .
36 For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition .
37 In contrast , the Dionysiac chorus , like unconscious actors , enter into and lose themselves in the characters that their collective ecstasy impels them to conjure up .
38 We 'll try and make it in the morning .
39 and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour .
40 Us kids were highly amused at all this , but I was distracted from the fun by Frankie who suggested that we gather up the bottles and hide them in the washhouse before they all got broken .
41 When his unlucky opponent approached , the fighter would grab the scabbard with his right hand and raise it in the air as if it were the knife .
42 Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town .
43 We saw the goal of feminist socialists as raising the status of women and to include them in the share-out .
44 She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings .
45 The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow .
46 That has never been seen as a constituent of self regulation , and I doubt whether any government would be willing to divert so many responsibilities already assigned to other existing bodies ( for example , the Medical Research Council and the Committee on Safety of Medicines ) — better qualified to carry them out — and concentrate them in the GMC alone under the sole control of the profession .
47 Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place .
48 she 's walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground !
49 ‘ Thanks then , ’ Sadie took the coin quickly and stuffed it in the pocket of her coat .
50 Shamlou picked up the buff envelope and stuffed it in the pocket of his windcheater .
51 Linguists belonging to the Prague School by and large conflate the two structures and combine them in the same description .
52 " We 're going to carry the yew berries home in our mouths and eat them in the great burrow .
53 ‘ We usually bring our own food and eat it in the park , ’ Tom said , ‘ but today we thought we 'd eat a proper meal in a cafe with you . ’
54 I taught her a new move and she practised it on me but she missed and got me in the and I fell on the ground .
55 If Alison Watt , poor little sausage , had measured the Queen Mum from ear to ear , and got everything in the right place in the same picture , people would probably tell her she was a genius .
56 They have that particular one because the two little girls wanted to be bridesmaid 's , have just been bridesmaid 's and have these dresses and Anna thought the colour was so pretty , cos she went into Laura Ashley and got one in the sale of last years stock .
57 Mr Rooker , MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham , discovered the existence of the POWs Fund in 1976 and publicised it in the Midlands .
58 When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ?
59 She stripped the bed and put Ruth 's treasures , carefully wrapping the glass , her books and the bear into two cardboard boxes from the supermarket , and stowed them in the bottom of the wardrobe .
60 He broke the gun down and stowed it in the rucksack , slipped the spent cartridge case into his pocket , then jumped back over the fence .
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