Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Write your plans below and evaluate at the next C.P.S. |
| 2 | She felt him lace their fingers together and trembled with a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation . |
| 3 | She closed her eyes grimly and pointed at the table . |
| 4 | She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars . |
| 5 | or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies |
| 6 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 7 | As he got to the door he snatched his eyes away and blundered through the doorway . |
| 8 | Spurred on again by a stream of oaths , it staggered a few paces further and sank to the ground , defeated . |
| 9 | An office colleague to whom I had told my story , went to Lochinver by train and bus a few months later and stayed at the same cottage . |
| 10 | The improved colt quickened well to take it up over two furlongs out and went to the line clear of the dead-heaters Steinbeck and Wilde Rufo , with the latter subsequently disqualified when jockey Richard Quinn weighed in 6lb light . |
| 11 | But perhaps it is best to take a few steps back and begin with the preliminary question : why an exhibition of the nude ? |
| 12 | A dangerous sparkle of anticipation in her eyes , Maria drew her shoulders back and walked across the room with her host at her side . |
| 13 | Geoffrey rolled his eyes dramatically and headed for the door . |
| 14 | They were on a granite slab that had fallen centuries ago and lay by the shore with the water rippling at it . |
| 15 | It expected that Scott would produce a building to vie with his great designs abroad and concluded with the hope that ‘ the recent discussions in which so much misapprehension has been exhibited will not shake your determination to carry out the selected design ’ . |
| 16 | He got up , flung the strange , savage robe around his shoulders again and went into the other room where she heard him shouting through the door " Is that little matter sorted out yet , at the Dog and Gun ? " |
| 17 | ‘ Are you still hungry ? ’ he asked softly , sliding his arm along her shoulders again and glancing towards a nearby stall . |
| 18 | At this point in his writing a white pigeon which had been fluttering round the swimming-pool alighted on the table , took two steps forward and excreted on the ‘ Jottings ’ , no doubt in the interests of historical accuracy . |
| 19 | A young man , my neighbour , gets up from his seat , takes several steps forward and stops in the middle of the road . |
| 20 | So uncovered their eyes again and peered at the sun-god through their lashes . |
| 21 | Arty closed his eyes again and concentrated on the music . |
| 22 | She began to turn the pictures round and flap at the mantelpiece with a duster . |
| 23 | ‘ Enter , ’ said a bored voice and the two men marched in , took four paces forward and came to a halt in front of Captain Trentham . |
| 24 | She swivelled her eyes round and paused for a moment as they meshed with Jake 's . |
| 25 | Then it would be possible to set matters right and return to the correct position of Clause 9 . |
| 26 | Either stir or shake the ingredients together and serve in a tall or white wine glass . |
| 27 | He gathered his bunch of limbs together and dropped off the bale . |
| 28 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 29 | She pulled Fergus 's shoes off and nodded to the door . |
| 30 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |