The fire was restoked and the army of wine-bottles gave way to a smaller phalanx of brandies, Armagnacs and Marcs, to offset the large bowls of coffee from which rose plumes of fragrance.

‘What do you think he meant, moron?’ asked Dover, apparently quite unmellowed by Mrs Boyle’s medicinal whisky.

The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.

In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.