Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 2 | Rose tells me he 's back and peacocking about as a vicar . ’ |
| 3 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 4 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |
| 5 | The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion . |
| 6 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 7 | The animal has been surveyed and laid off like a map ; and the men have been classified in over thirty specialties and twenty rates of pay , from 16 cents to 50 cents an hour . |
| 8 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 9 | The ideas pushing and tumbling out in a fever of words that were scarcely intelligible . |
| 10 | ‘ This way , ’ she said firmly , and plunged off into a perfumery hall of gleaming marble , as lush as some Byzantine church . |
| 11 | Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck . |
| 12 | The huge main doors were gilt over bronze and led out to a stairway that swept up to an entrance vestibule lined with Algerian onyx . ’ |
| 13 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 14 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 15 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 16 | Life becomes crazy when I 'm recording Birds Of A Feather so I tend to organise working lunches and sit down in a restaurant to get my fuel . |
| 17 | PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format : |
| 18 | Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant . |
| 19 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 20 | We spent a day ashore on Barentsøya where the Dutch party went off inland on their own and met up with a polar bear with two cubs , which ran off when they saw the party . |
| 21 | A hole saw looks like a hacksaw blade curled into a circle and fits on to a twist drill ( typically 6mm ) and can be used with an electric drill . |
| 22 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 23 | Recruited for a tricky mission , he pinions a German plane under his own , crashes into a dam , floods a German base and goes out in a blaze of glory , having saved the British fleet from likely destruction . |
| 24 | and goes out like a lamb |
| 25 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 26 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 27 | The ship is due to sail that day : on shore with the captain at a prize-fight , he overhears a plot to kidnap a certain American lady visiting Los Xicales with her brother , and rides out on a bicycle to warn them but also expecting that this will be the moment foretold for that second meeting . |
| 28 | He deals , breaks and rides out for a local National Hunt trainer to keep in the sport and would be delighted with any financial help — large or small . |
| 29 | Fibrous tissue replaces this , the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar . |
| 30 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |