Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 2 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 3 | Miss Fogerty assured her that nothing would be disclosed and slipped out of the side door . |
| 4 | He pulled up at the pumps and the attendant , a young black wearing green coveralls and cap bearing the petrol company 's logo , approached and leaned down to the open window . |
| 5 | So he 'd sort of had a well I suppose he 'd messed around helped and played about in the smithy . |
| 6 | My father rushed to the window , looked out and down into the garden , then shouted and ran out of the room , leaving Mrs Clamp goggle-eyed , alone . |
| 7 | Senga shouted and dashed out into the hall , almost colliding with Gerard , the butler " That 's Patrick , " she said quickly , " he said he would be back in time for lunch . " |
| 8 | At a point with ‘ Arc ’ I said ‘ OK , we 're off and we 're flying , this is distorted and grunged out to the max ’ . |
| 9 | As the survivors are air-lifted to safety by helicopter , the badly wounded Elias is seen being pursued and shot down by the North Vietnamese , his outstretched arms at the moment of death consciously evoking the Crucifixion . |
| 10 | With the slaughter of the king , the English turned and ran , pursued and hunted down by the knights . |
| 11 | He drew and sighted out through the window . |
| 12 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 13 | He placed the ointment on the table beside her , rose and walked over to the window . |
| 14 | But she rose and walked over to the table , moving stiffly because of muscles chilled from sitting in the stone window embrasure for so long . |
| 15 | Tallis rose and walked over to the pile of nuts and berries . |
| 16 | Willie rose and wandered over towards the entrance . |
| 17 | The solid trapdoor lifted and crashed over onto the tiled floor , and his heart soared as the torch light revealed the wooden rungs of a ladder descending into the darkness below . |
| 18 | ‘ That last hedge you jumped , ’ her father said , breaking another seemingly endless silence as he stopped and stared up at the facade of the great house . |
| 19 | He stopped and stared out of the window , across Horse Guards ' , looking suddenly weary . |
| 20 | He stopped and stared down at the floor . |
| 21 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 22 | The night was cold and black but when he stopped and looked up between the black overhanging gables of the houses , he was pleased to see the clouds beginning to break up . |
| 23 | He stopped and looked up at the tangle of gaunt branches above him . |
| 24 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 25 | Where the lawn ended she stopped and looked out across the bay , scanning the water for any sign of life . |
| 26 | Edward stopped and looked out across the open sea . |
| 27 | Maud went rushing off down the corridor , but Mildred stopped and looked out of the window to see if there was any evidence of fire . |
| 28 | After a while he stopped and looked out of the window remembering what Canaris had said about Hitler . |
| 29 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
| 30 | When Georges Braque , badly wounded and invalided out of the infantry , came back to Paris in 1917 , Marie Wassilieff gave a banquet for him at her canteen . |