Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , in the disco we began to quarrel and just after nine we packed it in and went back to the van . |
| 2 | While she was looking at the pictures , Griselda , Anna 's mother 's cat , came in and jumped on to the cat woman 's lap . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 5 | The words just wo n't come any more , so I 'm going to put my biro down and go off to the post . |
| 6 | After a long while the human put the paper down and reached over to the desk by its side . |
| 7 | Pamela put the phone down and strode out to the bus-stop . |
| 8 | The inguinal swelling ( or ‘ bubo ’ ) continues to enlarge and eventually forms abscesses which break down and discharge on to the shin . |
| 9 | Toby ran to the sobbing boy and took the flannel , and as he did so a naked razor blade fluttered down and tinkled on to the floor . |
| 10 | Andrew put the leather helmet down and wandered over to the window . |
| 11 | This was because , when her long beautiful legs were high in the air , her yellow garter flew off and fell down to the men below . |
| 12 | The photographer got pissed off and went back to the paper and said they were uncooperative and really difficult , ’ says Houghton . |
| 13 | Fierce Eyes went out into the storm and returned with the grandmother 's grizzled skull , the hair frozen into spikes which he broke off and cast on to the fire , where they sizzled , cooled , then flared . |
| 14 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 15 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 16 | I think about it for a bit , then I get up and go over to the shops . |
| 17 | We have been asked to give that up and to go over to the European Community system , with the European Court and majority voting — the shoe is pinching all the time . |
| 18 | He stood up and strode over to the window , leaving her totally confused . |
| 19 | It was a relief when they could get up and move back to the sitting-room . |
| 20 | Cattini got up and walked over to the barman who was wiping glasses . |
| 21 | Edward stood up and walked over to the window . |
| 22 | He got up and walked over to the group of children and chatted with them for a moment . |
| 23 | She stood up and walked over to the arch that separated the two rooms , taking her time to search the room for Mike . |
| 24 | Lewis stood up and walked over to the door , where he halted . |
| 25 | The room she was using was at the back of the house , and as she got up and walked over to the window to look out she could see a panorama of fields lying lush and green under a cloudless May sky . |
| 26 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 27 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 28 | She stood up and ran over to the bush where she had left her clothes . |
| 29 | Lee got up and ran back to the toilet , picking up the helmet that was on the floor . |
| 30 | Cameron got up and went over to the back window . |