Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work is being designed by the Regional Council 's landscape consultants , the Turnbull-Jeffrey Partnership and carried out under a series of contracts aimed at completion by Spring 1988 . |
| 2 | They encourage the children to imagine what it 's like to be a character in the play — one of two twins who are separated in a shipwreck and thrown up on a beach on a strange island . |
| 3 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 4 | She slammed the coffee-mug on to the table , put her hand to her mouth and rushed out of the room , taking the stairs two at a time . |
| 5 | So er a a micro electrode was er fabricated and then put inside a cell and connected up with an amplifier . |
| 6 | Luckily he was sitting in a grandfather chair with sturdy arms which would prevent his falling , so I removed the soup bowl , turned his head on one side and rushed out of the front door , picking up our ‘ frog horn ’ on the way . |
| 7 | He was assigned to what was vaguely described as ‘ guard duty , ’ warned not to talk about his work and taken down to the basement to start . |
| 8 | The maid gave a knowing little nod and backed out of the door with a smile on her face . |
| 9 | One of the university students said she had brushed past him in the corridor and gone out into the street . |
| 10 | Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window . |
| 11 | And then , right in the middle of the Lord 's Prayer , she leapt up and grabbed her bottom and rushed out of the room . ’ |
| 12 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 13 | They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles ' cottage and the Vicarage on the way . |
| 14 | Thus adjured , Hector jumped off the bed with a short bark and trotted out of the room . |
| 15 | After quite a lot of persuasion and promises of chocolate bars , I finally got back into my canoe and headed off down the river to find my paddle and the rest of the group . |
| 16 | At last the Stones were bundled into the building and taken up onto the roof for the promised interview . |
| 17 | Father Pedro de Valderrama , the Trinidad 's padre , stood on the poop deck and called down on the crew of all three remaining vessels the blessing of Our Lady of Victory . |
| 18 | So we left the remote mountains of the north and west and headed back towards the central highlands and Mount Kenya , the main objective of our visit . |
| 19 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 20 | SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills . |
| 21 | There is even talk of rebuilding the Kaiser 's Schloss , damaged in the war and blown up by the communists in 1950 . |
| 22 | Because he was clinging to the rudder , the plane slowly turned in a circle and headed back to the island . |
| 23 | Only a flicker from the television , reflected in the gloss of his eye and thrown up against the blank darkness , lent him the illusion of a lustre passing through her body , opaline . |
| 24 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 25 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 26 | Both his father and his uncle had been Stickies , while several younger relatives were reputed to have broken with the official wing and gone over to the Provies . |
| 27 | At the last moment the hare sensed the danger and bounded off into the undergrowth . |
| 28 | I crouched , shivering with cold , until I was dragged up and thrown into a huge cage on a gaudily painted cart and driven down through the Shambles and Westchepe to the magistrates at the Guildhall . |
| 29 | Then he suddenly remembered Sophia Ainger 's sister , the rather odd young woman he had met in Bloomsbury that evening and taken out for a drink . |
| 30 | When the master file is to be reorganized , this ancillary file will be sorted into descending count order , and the records are read from the old direct file and loaded on to the new in this order . |