Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took the tube to Carnaby Street , walked past the colourful street bazaars and ended up in the office , heart almost in mouth . |
| 2 | I had learnt how to take orders and get up in the morning since I had gone to boarding school at age seven . |
| 3 | This is made clear from the start by the tale which Beatrice tells Catherine of a boy who betrayed his uncle — illegally hidden in his family 's house — and who was dragged by his feet down flights of stairs and spat on in the street by his father and brothers as a result . |
| 4 | Jill 's life revolves round them both , and there have been times when she has even had difficulty getting to the shops , let alone keeping up her own interests and going out in the evenings . |
| 5 | The time-travellers manage to escape from the Aridians and take off in the TARDIS , but the Dalek time-ship is in hot pursuit . |
| 6 | They broke through the upper windows and tumbled down in the middle of us . |
| 7 | I slipped away before the encores and hung around in the courtyard outside the Sheldonian until the Kraemers emerged . |
| 8 | I remember opening my hood , disconnecting my oxygen and R/T connections and standing up in the cockpit . |
| 9 | Maureen West says her daughter is still having nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night . |
| 10 | Another runner threw up his hands and walked out in the middle of one afternoon . |
| 11 | Faced with a national drought that was playing havoc with his own garden and those of his village neighbours , one Richard Bullock took matters into his own hands and ended up in the dock for his pains . |
| 12 | but he , he 's at that age now where I could have another kid and look after it quite easily if I had one , but I do n't wan na go through , not the pregnancy , but I do n't want to go through all the babies and getting up in the night and , one that 'll come out six months old |
| 13 | The referee was also the Quartermaster in the school 's Combined Cadet Force , who paraded on Wednesday afternoons and ran around in the woods with Lee Enfield .303s practising ambushes in the rhododendrons . |
| 14 | There was a girl at work who said she loved the rain — she would dress up in a mac and goloshes and tramp around in the rain just for pleasure . |
| 15 | They left Margot to look after the children and set off in the car , heading for Gallanach . |
| 16 | She took off her clothes and turned round in the moonlight . |
| 17 | The fines created so much public interest that , on the following Sunday , the Ravenhill Church ‘ was packed half an hour before the service began and throughout the proceedings men climbed onto the windows to listen and people thronged the open doors and queued out in the street at the back and side of the church ’ . |
| 18 | She went vaguely back to occasional journalism and found it increasingly difficult to sleep in the evenings and get up in the mornings . |