Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [vb past] [pron] in " in BNC.

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1 At this point Sergeant Aitken came in and muttered something in the Inspector 's ear .
2 If Samoa , Mount Silisili and yesterday were indeed somewhere out there , I would have to take their presence on trust : I doubt if the visibility was more than five miles , and less as the squalls rolled in and drenched me in my eyrie .
3 But he was the same as ever — just went in and did it in one take .
4 Then he put the telephone down and rejoined her in the shop , frowning solemnly .
5 She bent down and took him in her arms .
6 He broke the gun down and stowed it in the rucksack , slipped the spent cartridge case into his pocket , then jumped back over the fence .
7 He knelt down and held it in front of Sung 's face a moment .
8 Here she went to the dressing table where she sat down and regarded herself in the mirror .
9 Julius came into the room , and she immediately went over and planted herself in front of him .
10 He then knocked a 21-year-old girl over and kicked her in the face , before half choking and battering a 23-year-old .
11 There was a scuffle ; the other policeman came over and kicked me in the stomach .
12 Well I 'm telling you they stuck it they had a sort of flat bottomed cart and they used to stick it in and when they came there they , they lifted it off and stuck it in the ground and it was just similar to that only it was hooped
13 With one swift motion McGowan reached up , took the glasses off and tucked them in his pocket .
14 She , no she , cos she 'd s what , he 'd done his business pel pissed off and left her in this house and she did n't even know .
15 Ignoring me , he chewed the end off and parked it in an ashtray .
16 ‘ He pulled the man off and punched him in self-defence .
17 At the end of spawning I had over 20 eggs plastered to the sides of the aquarium , so I took a razor blade and carefully scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub in their own aquarium water .
18 Once again I scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub .
19 Kate ripped it off and shoved it in the pocket of her jacket .
20 Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end .
21 A guardsman got up and thanked him in English for granting the battalion a week 's leave .
22 The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark .
23 The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark .
24 She held a warning finger up and wagged it in Fernando 's direction .
25 Quickly , Lissa gathered them up and dropped them in a heap on her opened briefcase .
26 He picked it up and dropped it in a bowl of fruit punch .
27 He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin .
28 She jumped up and punched him in the kidneys before landing a fist on the point of his chin .
29 ‘ You 've got to have the right bloke mind , ’ Yanto smiled at her , as she stood up and shrouded herself in his blanket .
30 Mum was pleased as punch when she found that Mary had bought us new clothes , but she was not so pleased when Mary told her she could n't see them until the day of the wedding and took them straight up and locked them in her trunk .
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