Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke . |
| 2 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 3 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 4 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 5 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 6 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 8 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 9 | They did n't want the Yanks stumbling in and screwing up in an attempt to force the issue . |
| 10 | On a pitch of uneven bounce England were put in and shot out before the end of the day for 200 , David Smith , Lamb and Botham the only ones to make an impression . |
| 11 | Everyone comes in and goes out by the front . " |
| 12 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 13 | Anyway , in the disco we began to quarrel and just after nine we packed it in and went back to the van . |
| 14 | Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up . |
| 15 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |
| 16 | While she was looking at the pictures , Griselda , Anna 's mother 's cat , came in and jumped on to the cat woman 's lap . |
| 17 | No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by . |
| 18 | Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery . |
| 19 | Going into the first Test at Port-of-Spain under the leadership of Mike Denness , England were put in and bowled out for a meagre 131 ( Greig top-scored with 37 ) . |
| 20 | The choice then lies between staying in and going through with the change despite initial disfavour or staying in and changing either reluctantly or superficially . |
| 21 | He took no notice , but turned in and drew up in the courtyard . |
| 22 | A man came in and sat down in the seat opposite him . |
| 23 | They went in and sat down by the fire . |
| 24 | Quadrant Park is a great , glitzy three- storeyed chasm of a club in Bootle , which on Saturday nights becomes a suffocating fleshpit of 2,500 north-western ravers tuned in and turned on to the house sound of Merseyside . |
| 25 | Well I mean it 's , it 's well as soon as , it 's , well did you write in and object in within the time ? |
| 26 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
| 27 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 28 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
| 29 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 30 | The clothes lines were taken down and rolled up by the dustbins , together with the props . |