Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affliction succeeds in taking the detailing associated with Raymond Carver-style dirty realism and fusing it with the pace of a detective story . |
| 2 | ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg . |
| 3 | ‘ Like some coffee ? ’ said Wilcox , taking her coat and hanging it on the back of the door . |
| 4 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 5 | Shaken off balance by her startling thoughts , Isabel glanced away , stepping out of her gown and hanging it over the table . |
| 6 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 7 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 8 | So takes it up and knits it on the back . |
| 9 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 10 | It was supposed to shoot back up again , hitting my jutting backside en route and pitching me across the stage , but it did n't . |
| 11 | She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way . |
| 12 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 13 | The water was rising all the time , and we had to seal him inside a waterproof bag and drag him through the sump . ’ |
| 14 | Instead of highlighting the first cell with the formula in it , and the rest of the row or column , then accessing the edit menu and copying right or down , all you do is use that little cross in the bottom right hand corner of the cell border , and drag it across the range you want the formula copied to — Excel is clever enough to decide whether you want to copy or fill , and copies the formula through the range of cells — making the necessary alterations to cell references as it goes . |
| 15 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 16 | The BTEC HND courses consistently and successfully attract students of a more practical than academic inclination , and develop them to the stage where their natural pragmatic talents have been enhanced with a rigorous regime of integrated business skills . |
| 17 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 18 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 19 | It had been alleged that after hiring Mr Mullan 's taxi for a journey from Gourock to Greenock , he produced a hunting knife and stabbed him on the chest . |
| 20 | The prosecution claims that Westmore James got into a row with the cousin , and stabbed him in the neck on the steps of a social security office . |
| 21 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 22 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 23 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 24 | Yussuf caught hold of her and propelled her towards the gate . |
| 25 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 26 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 27 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 28 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 29 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 30 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |