Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 2 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 3 | A left-wing party outside government had , for some time , been calling for the workers to seize factories and , when they found themselves shut out by the closing of firms by management in the Bosses ' strike , the workers were prompted to action They seized firms and , having taken them over , set up a cordón in the area . |
| 4 | The Jews were in exile after 586 BC and found themselves cut off from the temple . |
| 5 | I told you move over to the other side a little bit , you 've got plenty of room at the bottom , start again what 's the , what letter are you doing ? |
| 6 | Maha followed them but Hussa and I threw ourselves face down on the warm , white sand , both of us smiling at the success of the project . |
| 7 | Dauntless shambled over to the edge of the stream and threw himself face down on the grass , cupping handfuls of water and throwing it over his head , gulping it greedily . |
| 8 | When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement . |
| 9 | I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay . |
| 10 | She pulled her loom out from the corner and put a stool in front of it . |
| 11 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 12 | He stood and watched her walk back to the house and then he went back to his work . |
| 13 | I watched her walk back down the steps , and the wind flipped her loose cardigan so that it became a swansdown shawl . |
| 14 | I ground my teeth as I watched her crawl back into the machinery . |
| 15 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 16 | As she thrashed his bare arse with scorching strokes , she watched him ejaculate on to the floor . |
| 17 | She watched him go over to the coffee-machine hissing on a cabinet near one of the windows , saw him deftly take cups and saucers from a cupboard . |
| 18 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 19 | He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room . |
| 20 | Sabrina watched him disappear back into the booth . |
| 21 | With a bright flicker of satisfaction , she watched him slide down into the water , his large body making a flurry of waves ripple the surface . |
| 22 | As the cortege approached Uzerche on its way north , the chronicler Geoffrey and a few monks from the priory of Vigeois , standing on a hill , watched it go by on the road below . |
| 23 | Horowitz watched it turn on to the road and vanish . |
| 24 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 25 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 26 | I laid him further along on the pavement , under his broken and smashed shop front , which proclaimed his trade : Rabinowitz Tailors . |
| 27 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |
| 28 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 29 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 30 | ‘ But not about the caves , ’ she laughed and , tugging at his arm , she insisted they tag on with the other tourists . |