Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 2 | Productive activity was carried out by peasants , who lived on and cultivated the land which was controlled by the feudal lords . |
| 3 | He hopped in and unzipped the rucksack , taking out only the scope which he pointed back towards the lakeside . |
| 4 | After dark the men of the SAS crept in and obtained the necessary tentage and equipment to set themselves up , including even a piano for the officers ' mess . |
| 5 | Charles got in and slammed the door . |
| 6 | He got in and pressed the button for the first floor . |
| 7 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
| 8 | She got in and held the door-open button . |
| 9 | I hauled back the wheel and the plane mushed down and hit the water . |
| 10 | Then they moved on and repeated the whole performance 's two streets away . |
| 11 | Leila Williams ( a former beauty queen ) and Chris Trace were its virgin presenters , the show a seven-week experiment that caught on and gave the world John Noakes ' arse , the most famous shitting elephant ever , many an expedition to Ceylon , sticky-backed plastic , ‘ soldier dolls ’ , umpteen dogs , Sarah Greene ( cheers ) and a hell of a lot of jeeps paid for by old forks and ring-pulls . |
| 12 | In books , pamphlets and speeches women drew on and re-worked the languages of purity , religion , medicine and even mysticism to develop a critical feminist discourse . |
| 13 | But when he knelt down and tested the earth with his hands , some of the tracks seemed fresh . |
| 14 | The friar knelt down and tickled the cat between his ears . |
| 15 | At one point he knelt down and parted the heather with his hands , so sure was he that he had found it , but there was nothing but the scree and the tiny plants which grew amongst it . |
| 16 | Eventually they died and sank down and joined the compost at the base of the leaves which , in fact , helped nourish the plant . |
| 17 | They excelled in and developed the arts of building , of engineering and of town planning . |
| 18 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 19 | The lad bent down and seized the foot but Beamish broke in . |
| 20 | Rosten bent down and wiped the sword on the back of Wolfe 's tunic , then straightened , facing Gosse . |
| 21 | Just in case , I bent down and told the joint-smoking Santa to get rid of it . |
| 22 | The T'ang turned , then bent down and retrieved the book , finding himself strangely reassured by its familiarity . |
| 23 | When he reached the store he bent down and fondled the Labrador 's ears , his face softening . |
| 24 | Pushing up his sleeves over the elbow , he swilled cold water over his hands and arms , then bent down and sluiced the whole of his head . |
| 25 | Without warning , Lorton bent down and grabbed the edges of the duvet . |
| 26 | As the child turned her back to her , Aggie bent down and buttoned the top of the dress ; then she said , ‘ You hungry ? ’ |
| 27 | She bent down and picked the whole thing up and slammed it back . |
| 28 | He bent down and stroked the shining plumage of a large bird that lay at his feet , trussed up with creepers . |
| 29 | She bent down and patted the silky black head . |
| 30 | After French Museums proved unable to agree over the price at which the paintings should go to the Museum of Melun , however , France 's Monuments Historiques moved in and declared the two still lifes the first paintings , after van Gogh 's ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , to be historic monuments and thus unable to leave France . |