Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 2 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 3 | She took a towel and hanging it over her arm , she made her way upstairs , her mind spinning with troubled thoughts . |
| 4 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 5 | She wondered if Ethel would relent and change her back , or whether she might be really wicked enough to leave her as a frog , for ever . |
| 6 | Put him on so and so , and so and so on that , and change them about . |
| 7 | Then Paul has to get the Tipp-Ex out and change everything round , but it never really looks right . |
| 8 | and they go and drag somebody up in |
| 9 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 10 | If Kelly could see her now she 'd throw up her hands in horror and drag her off to the nearest restaurant to order the biggest meal on the menu . |
| 11 | ‘ So then I grab hold of Christine and drag her out . |
| 12 | When I got to the spot , I groped beneath the water to try and find him and drag him up , but could feel nothing . |
| 13 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 14 | He let Coffin go up and drag him out . |
| 15 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 16 | It calls for the qualities of a fighter , for only with those qualities can we win through the constant traps and barriers laid by the forces that would block our path and drag us down . |
| 17 | I was sweating , you could imagine thinking God we 're going to have to take the wheels off and drag it through with a tractor or something like that on skids , cos we needed the van for Monday and there was n't going to be a lot of t But then suddenly yes a again I suddenly th |
| 18 | To find out what sort of bottom exists in a swim just stick on a heavy leger and drag it back towards you . |
| 19 | I think it is often worthwhile to stick with a basic idea and develop it in as many ways as possible . |
| 20 | They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching . |
| 21 | She switched on the vibrator , and stabbed it in and out of his backside like a demented piston . |
| 22 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 23 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 24 | ‘ People would expect me to come into a room and crack them up , ’ Rowan , 36 , told Cosmopolitan magazine . |
| 25 | ‘ Come on , ’ he turned her neatly and propelled her back into the living room . |
| 26 | And take so much off and pat it up and then then wrap it , very nice and neatly . |
| 27 | Maybe we should drive round to Fahan and track them down . ’ |
| 28 | try and track it down |
| 29 | Our university hosts led us into a room bedecked with tinsel and flashing fairy lights , and seated us around a circular table covered with elaborate cold starters . |
| 30 | Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could . |