Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After gobbling up whatever I could find in the house , I crept into bed and pulled the blankets over my head in a vain attempt to stifle the mocking voices and shut out the ugly visions . |
| 2 | The man posed as a mini-cab driver and picked up the woman outside a pub in Brockley , south-east London . |
| 3 | They discussed the coming Sunday excursion as they climbed out of the empty hold and trotted down the ship 's gangway on to the wharf . |
| 4 | And he glanced round at the still-insensible Liam and threw away the cigarette in disgust . |
| 5 | The sunlight that filtered through the windows mellowed the old wood and brought out the richness of its colour , and even the stone floor glowed softly and did n't give any impression of coldness . |
| 6 | Wilson ( 17 ) has suggested that to exploit the potential market , producers must take on a new , invigorating , active , forward-looking stance and lay aside the conservatism , traditionalism and isolation which have hindered development in the past . |
| 7 | And we had very clear skies and showed up the s the stars quite brilliantly . |
| 8 | The sergeant rammed the rolled copy of the Edinburgh Mercury into his back pocket and fished down the ring of cell keys from its hook by the door . |
| 9 | The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa ( d. 1190 ) had established the German monarchy and built up the power of the emperor in the north to a hitherto unparalleled degree . |
| 10 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 11 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 12 | The meeting took place in one of the smaller boardrooms on the top floor and brought together the Chairman , Lord Monkton , Hammond Wilde , ‘ Squeezer ’ Lemon and Ms. Georgie Peacock , with Richie and Patrick in attendance . |
| 13 | Benjamin then dug his hand into the empty manger and plucked out the remains of the horse 's feed . |
| 14 | It was her ‘ wait ’ and she sped down the stone staircase ahead of the lumbering old man and snatched up the receiver . |
| 15 | Although some of the more sophisticated lawyers may well have been culturally alienated from the mass of the people , these practitioners charged high fees and served only the élite . |
| 16 | He pulled back the blankets , peeled back the cotton and rubber sheets and struggled down the ladder with them in his arms . |
| 17 | Annie picked up her copy of the Workshop weekly newsletter and skimmed down the list of meetings , appeals for information , contacts , list of new women 's liberation publications . |
| 18 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow , Maryhill ( Mrs. Fyfe ) spoke eloquently for social justice and said how the Prime Minister had been bounced into supporting the poll tax . |
| 20 | He dropped the brown bag and took out the Heckler and Koch MP5K sub-machine-gun . |
| 21 | This first violent incident in over three months of continued demonstrations raised political tensions and led both the CDU and LDPD to threaten leaving the government . |
| 22 | He gave a terse nod and switched on the ignition . |
| 23 | The association of ideas made fondness for Gentle sound like another disease , but he did n't comment on it , merely made arrangements to pick up Klein the following evening and put down the phone , plunged into a deeper trough than ever . |
| 24 | She stumbled to her feet , crossed the dark room and switched on the light . |
| 25 | I 'd have found some boring ordinary job and paid off the cops and you 'd have your new crystal and I 'd never have met Marco and his pals and I 'd be a happier woman today . |
| 26 | He tucked the chintzy bed cover over his sleeping friend and switched off the light . |
| 27 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 28 | Alanson suggested that the wound be cleansed with warm water and bandaged so the edges formed a straight line across the stump : no dressings were to be used . |
| 29 | He rejected all evolutionary theories and stressed instead the essentially cyclical nature of change . |
| 30 | This volcanic cloud could have warmed the upper atmosphere in the tropical latitudes and blotted out the differences in temperature between surface and upper air that when combined with the effects of the earth 's rotation , cause the trade winds . |