Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , she thought it was fair enough if Connor had a small moment of glory before Jack , armed with the material in the briefcase beside her , hauled her in and finished her little investigation for good and all . |
| 2 | She rushed in and gathered her beloved hen to her , burying her face in its feathers , as the hen began to squawk with surprise and excitement . |
| 3 | Why not write in and tell us more of your tips — Ed . |
| 4 | ‘ Everybody came in and told her all their stories . |
| 5 | The doctor had been in and given her some sleeping pills . |
| 6 | Overseas exploration and colonial settlement opened up vistas of fabulous riches ; the existence of the barbarians could no longer just be taken for granted ; they had to be fitted in and given their proper place in the ordinary man 's picture of world geography . |
| 7 | If I had my choice , I 'd rather be left to work something out myself ; instead of it all being set up and you just walk in and take measurements , go away and analyse them , you 'd have to go in and set it all up , then you 'd really learn something . |
| 8 | But er somebody was in and left it all filthy and mouldy and what for ! |
| 9 | but they do sort of come in and give you some idea do n't they ? |
| 10 | In that brief time , a fly may dart in and lay its own egg on it . |
| 11 | Somebody gave him a brush and paints one time and he started in and got it better than any of them , oh my word he did . |
| 12 | I went in and got it all . |
| 13 | Being aggressive is just as bad as being submissive it really is because people swing to one side you know it some people are very good at being aggressive and are very good at diving in and getting their own way and just ju by being aggressive it 's naturally aggressive . |
| 14 | The FO chap knew all about it , of course , and any time things looked like coming off the boil he dived in and assured us this could be the biggest coup since the Zimmerman telegram . |
| 15 | Come in and make yourself comfortable . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 17 | She did n't feel she could make a contribution , but she wanted to , so ‘ I just went in and made myself useful . ’ |
| 18 | The race had started on a wet track — it is almost never dry for a whole weekend in Holland — and Hunt 's victory resulted from the finest sort of judgement about when to come in and change his wet tyres to slicks . |
| 19 | Amy wo n't do it and I ca n't find anyone even to come in and keep it tidy . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They might be able to test the sack and rope which Brian was found in and find something new . |
| 21 | It had n't actually been Guy Sterne 's fault that he 'd barged in and found her naked in his bedroom last night , even if his mocking treatment of the incident had been grossly insulting … |
| 22 | None of those and the chancellor of the exchequer is rubbing his hands and saying Goody goody th there 's money for my coffers cos he is the one who is going to step in and take it all , so the people will argue the obvious ones are , firstly somebody you live with but are not married to . |
| 23 | His voice was offhand , as he strode in and put his neat briefcase down on the desk . |
| 24 | Pensioners at the Wesley Court community centre , in Darlington , were left singing the blues when thieves broke in and stole their favourite karaoke machine . |
| 25 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 26 | And they resent the KGB coming in and running their own operations on Romanian soil . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'll go in and find us another shuttle . ’ |
| 28 | The unprecedented blitz of media hype surrounding the restoration , expansion and long awaited re-opening of Frank Lloyd Wright 's great spiralling concrete shell has created a huge public interest and lining up to get in and see what all the fuss is about has become the latest hot civic pursuit . |
| 29 | But he had just slid his key into the lock , simply strolled in and shattered their precious time . |
| 30 | come in and stay in that 's it , stay in and do your own whatever , and then we 'll go , when I go and get the cos dad 's on late , we 'll go to the hospital then she 's got John and Claire and erm the other pair are going this afternoon |