Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When much of Britain and Europe was covered with forest , tree worship was prevalent and it was customary to go in spring or early summer into the woods , cut down a tree and bring it , together with the blessings bestowed by the tree spirit , into the village where it was re-erected . |
| 2 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 3 | It was Yom Kippur , and in one of the breaks in the day-long service , I spied a young dark-haired lad shinning up and down a pillar and asked him if he liked acting . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , Charles , if you would calm down a moment and allow me to get a word in , I would be able to inform you that I have already negotiated just such a deal for you . ’ |
| 5 | The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression . |
| 6 | He was recently quoted as saying : ‘ I 've got a terrible habit when people bring in a picture and say they want to look like that — I invariably tear it up in front of them . |
| 7 | If the doctor suspects that the medicine has caused an affect like that , he 's asked to fill in a card and to send it in . |
| 8 | The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’ |
| 9 | Then Pettit took a photograph and , he claimed , Enos attacked him — throwing him over a fence and punching him in a headlock . |
| 10 | On a visit to Scarborough with Janet Rigby , they walked over a bridge and said they would meet up again on it one day . |
| 11 | The car they are both in , although Daisy is driving , runs over a woman and kills her . |
| 12 | ‘ Correct ! ’ she squealed , leaned over a millimetre and kissed me quickly . |
| 13 | I prised off a scab and gave it the tongue test . |
| 14 | A motorway workman was killed when a wheel flew off a lorry and hit him . |
| 15 | The four-year-old freed neighbour Anthony Trueman , 30 , after the DIY mechanic 's Ford Fiesta toppled off a jack and pinned him underneath , causing minor injuries . |
| 16 | ‘ But I overhear people 's conversations , and sometimes I 'll get off a bus and follow them if I 'm interested ; or I 'll stand beside people pretending to be looking at something or reading , but actually listening to them . |
| 17 | Gets it across , controls with his right foot , strikes with his left and it cannons back off a defender and gets it away . |
| 18 | ‘ Pretend to pick up a stone and throw it at the dog . |
| 19 | Allen whistled , picked up a stone and flung it high into the trees . |
| 20 | He picked up a stone and flung it into the horse pond . |
| 21 | Instead , he picked up a stone and threw it into the bushes , then made a noise that sounded suspiciously like ‘ shoo , shoo ’ . |
| 22 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 23 | Then , she picked up a half-brick and threw it through the drugstore window . |
| 24 | I thought that three guineas would be an appropriate amount , drew up a licence and sent it to him to sign . |
| 25 | The Queen is very quick at picking up a clue and following it through without giving the game away . |
| 26 | Aunt Kit picked up a newspaper and smoothed it out on her knee . |
| 27 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 28 | On the cusp of the second zone , close to the mainline station — the place where he always went — Ellwood picked up a girl and took her home . |
| 29 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 30 | He then picked up a stool and brought it down towards her but it smashed a ceiling light . |