Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is important to write these plans down and to keep them under review .
2 Andy yelled , throwing the keys down and grabbing me by the collar and slamming me back against the side of the Landie .
3 So he pulled all his strings , and although it was politically very sensitive , he got the Cypriots to close the Palestinians down and kick them off the island .
4 It 's just that it would have been nice to have seen the signs , ’ said Caspar , rolling the maps up and packing them in his saddle bag .
5 But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven .
6 ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes .
7 With one swift motion McGowan reached up , took the glasses off and tucked them in his pocket .
8 He took his glasses off and put them on the table , and his eyes were dancing as she had n't seen them dance since the night he had revealed the identity of Miguelito .
9 erm I 'm not going to keep you very long because I 've nearly finished talking so erm when I 've finished perhaps you would like to bring some of your things up and put them on the table and we can all have a look at them .
10 I 'm sure they pick things up and throw them at each other .
11 Well you could always tear the pages o pages out and stick them with the receipts .
12 ‘ She tore a few pages out and threw them in the bin .
13 He rolled their bodies over and pinned her beneath him .
14 Shall we put your 'jamas on and put you to bed ?
15 Two or three of us , we pulled her down into the barley and pulled her drawers down and filled 'em with barley .
16 His back was smooth and firm , hot under her palms , and the muscles rippled as she slid her hands down and smoothed them over the slight swell of his hips .
17 I recoil at the strength of his putrid breath and yank myself away , but he grabs my waist and throws me upon the bed , pinning my hands down and forcing himself on top of me .
18 He did n't move , so I pulled his hands out and positioned them on the boat 's edges .
19 A burglar who took his socks off and put them on his hands to avoid leaving fingerprints was caught red-footed when he was arrested … because of the footprints he left .
20 I took my clothes off and put them into one of the largest warships .
21 Who do you think stripped your clothes off and put you to bed ? ’
22 The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames .
23 But they took what few they 'd got left on our regiment to Ireland so nobody else 'd desert , while they rounded the others up and took them to Ireland you see .
24 When I am satisfied that I have enough information , after maybe seven or eight sittings , I will square the drawings up and transfer them onto board . ’
25 He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash .
26 Then they used to take the others back and put them in the yard again .
27 Murphy swung the horses round and headed them towards Bishopstow , and in the carriage , in her crumpled finery , Alexandra sat and pushed her fists against her mouth to stop herself from crying .
28 If you must wear a jacket , cut the buttons off and fasten it with string through the button holes .
29 ‘ She got our backs up and treated us like schoolchildren , ’ said Davies .
30 Opal Fruits and things like that I could of got them that but of course a great big bag of Minstrels , you could n't just let them rummage through that , so what I done I took a couple of handfuls out and put them in here
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