Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 2 | One of the young men at the rear of the little procession tugged at his rein and made to wheel and ride out of the wood . |
| 3 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 4 | Leave the Museum of Decorative Arts and walk along to the Svatopluka Čech Bridge of 1906 , by J. Soukup and J. Koula . |
| 5 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 6 | The thrice-married father-of-seven now wears a blonde wig and struts around in high heels and slinky skirts . |
| 7 | I will report to His Majesty and come back to him . " |
| 8 | I 'd read an article by Jon Mendlesohn in Rolling Stone , which emanated from a trip he took to Los Angeles the year before , which must have been about 1970 , that said that there was this guy who did weird songs and dressed up in dresses . |
| 9 | Beside me , Eva , in her jeans and tennis shoes , stepped along lightly , trying to hum one of Charlie 's songs and keep up with my fast pace . |
| 10 | I went to association and came in with me to see the place and to meet the outgoing director and the nice part time secretary . |
| 11 | He was also chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and pointed out to the proprietor of the Daily Mail the danger of damaging democracy through a last minute election stunt story . |
| 12 | But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg . |
| 13 | This was a Greek theatre , hollowed out of the steep mountainside and looking out over one of the finest views in the world , with the sea far below on one side and , in the distance , Mount Etna . |
| 14 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 15 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 16 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 17 | If this happens cancel that experiment and move on to something else ! |
| 18 | Drama school is n't going to teach anybody to act but it does give the vital techniques with which to act and gives you a chance to make mistakes , experiment and find out about yourself . |
| 19 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 20 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 21 | He waited ‘ till the tram drew abreast of the silent jeep and leaped on to the running board beside the driver . |
| 22 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 23 | Another bullet fired from the same revolver had entered the outside of the driver 's ( that is , the left-hand ) door of the jeep and passed through to the edge of the driver 's seat without striking Paulette . |
| 24 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 25 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 26 | Gordon sat quite still for a few seconds , then uncrossed his legs and went out of the room , a room in his own house , or rather his mother 's . |
| 27 | He halted only for a second , enough to narrow his eyes and purse his lips into a look of utter disgust , as though a dog 's turd had grown legs and scurried on to his carpet . |
| 28 | Lloyd stopped tuning up Beeby 's legs and looked up in genuine surprise and then disgust . |
| 29 | Spectators , wandering along the pony lines , were amused to watch Fantasma , who 'd been muzzled to stop her savaging anyone , standing on her two front legs and lashing out with both back ones . |
| 30 | After two days on the bus from Darjeeling to Yoksam , we were glad to stretch our legs and walk up to Dubtek , Sikkim 's oldest monastery . |