Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the bit was taken out of his mouth and put back in the proper place , and Wendy continued to calmly trot him around with the other horses ; and Huckleberry kept putting his tongue over the bit again , and again , and again . |
| 2 | A gambler by instinct , Chéron listened to the gossip and hung about in the artists ' cafés . |
| 3 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 4 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 5 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 6 | Ponds , marshes and mires fill the hollows , alternating with higher ground which emerges first from under the snow and dries out in the course of summer . |
| 7 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 8 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 9 | Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World . |
| 10 | Mary was the only one of them , as far as he knew , who had ever walked to the village and walked about in the village when she got there . |
| 11 | It hit the green and finished down in the rough with the flag just over a little rise ( he was down in Duncan 's Hollow ) . |
| 12 | Using paint from the Crown Expressions range , the wall in the foreground and the shutters are in Carmolito F3–80 emulsion , the tongue and grooving and the fireplace is in Caribou K2–100 eggshell , whilst Ponderosa Pine has been used on the wall in the backroom and picked out in the berry stencil . |
| 13 | Uncle Wafter heaved a sigh and slumped back in the chair , his hand covering his eyes . |
| 14 | William Francis Wilson , 21 , of Springwell Lane , Northallerton , was convicted of three charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm , jointly taking fish from private waters and fishing in private waters without a licence , fined £300 plus £155 costs , £740 compensation and bound over in the sum of £100 . |
| 15 | If you have a grievance relating to your employment , please refer to the procedure agreed by the Council and set out in the document attached to this statement of particulars . |
| 16 | He raised his eyes from the paperwork on his desk and leant back in the chair , a lazy grin on his face . |
| 17 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 18 | She climbed onto the bike and set off in the direction from which she had come , gathering speed as she descended . |
| 19 | Piers wiped his mouth with the napkin and relaxed back in the chair , surveying her through dark , thick lashes . |
| 20 | Sometimes a little block of five or six men would detach itself from the larger mass and drift off in the direction of the track . |
| 21 | Back in January Dallas performed what started off as the demolition and ended up in the annihilation of the Bills ' hopes of making it third time lucky at Superbowl . |
| 22 | The statement reported the summit 's decision to establish a " special commission to consider the suggestions of the countries on the key aspects of co-operation within the CMEA framework and to work out in the shortest time drafts of new fundamental CMEA documents " . |
| 23 | Mama wrapped the baby in a big blue flannel blanket and sat down in the kitchen armchair to nurse . |
| 24 | She followed him into the kitchen and sat down in the chair offered to her . |
| 25 | LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ . |
| 26 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 27 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 28 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 29 | This season Murphy has already sent out 12 winners while his boss is often left to drive the horse-box and saddle up in the parade ring . |
| 30 | We stayed all day , suffering short drenching showers of rain and drying out in the hot spells in between . |