Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 2 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |
| 3 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 4 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 5 | The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage . |
| 6 | So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal . |
| 7 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 8 | They staggered on for a year or two after that , but Tesco 's had a big , big change of policy they were no longer high and kick them out cheap , they decided to promote a quality in which stamps did not go for and erm |
| 9 | So I told the machine what it was about , and moved on to a golfer and one of the Black and White minstrels . ’ |
| 10 | The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree . |
| 11 | Meryl Sank down on a window-seat and listened ; already the house was uncannily quiet . |
| 12 | Emily sank down into a chair and studied the pages closely , controlling the urge to slap the insolent hussy 's pretty face . |
| 13 | She sank down into a chair and watched as Craig knelt before the fire , building it back into a glowing warmth . |
| 14 | When the carriage was out of sight , she sank down into a chair and put her hands over her face . |
| 15 | As Rafiq disappeared out of sight at the top of the stairs , Maisie staggered in with a step-ladder and started to put up black drapes at the windows . |
| 16 | It was Viola , helped along by a policeman and a fireman , weeping uncontrollably , her old legs hardly able to bear her , even with support on either side . |
| 17 | Once he had decided on his man he moved in with a determination that usually beat the carefully-laid plans of other interested clubs , often to dramatic effect . |
| 18 | He swivelled the board round , moved effortlessly into a wave and stood up , cutting diagonally across the break and finishing with a headstand . |
| 19 | She broke off as if afraid of being overheard and moved away with a nod and a wave . |
| 20 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 21 | And there were the baskets of fruit , perfect small melons , late plums , under-ripe medlars waiting to soften , peaches , pears hollowed out by a bird or a wasp , figs that had fallen of their own accord , all the fruits of September naturally ripe and sometimes still warm from the sun . |
| 22 | He shouted angrily in a voice that sounded American , but the hijacker hit him and then pushed him to the front of the plane with his machine gun . |
| 23 | That morning , when he was about a quarter of a mile from the school gate , a Volvo estate car drew out from a side-road and drove straight at him . |
| 24 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 25 | On one hand this angry commentary about what these women protesters had done to outrage all the people involved in Miss World , and on the other hand , my dad sort of crashed out in a chair because he was so exhausted from his work . |
| 26 | The character , the flamboyance is being f—ed and sucked out of a business that traditionally thrives on the outrageous . |
| 27 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 28 | Having escaped from their field , two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump . |
| 29 | I wandered around for a bit and then came back again . |
| 30 | Other teeth moved freely in a way that they had never moved before . |