Example sentences of "spring [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sprang away from Finn and it was no longer a pretence — she stumbled over the knotted fringe of the rug . |
| 2 | His mistakes in foreign affairs sprang not from expansionism or malevolence but from non-comprehension , shortsightedness and an undue sense of his own importance . |
| 3 | Then the wind rose , fanning the few sparks left alive in the brushwood ; the fire flared into life again and gave them light to see by , and they broke apart from their terrible embraces and sprang off to blade-length and lance-length . |
| 4 | Factions sprang up at court and intrigue , always a dangerous pastime among the Elves , became a way of life for many . |
| 5 | Unlike many similar discounts which sprang up after Abbey National had made its move , this one is for an indefinite period . |
| 6 | A network of ‘ base communities ’ sprang up in response , and began to live the Gospel on the humblest level . |
| 7 | Throughout the Prussian east a wide range of specifically Polish cultural organisations sprang up in response to this pressure : the Slav Literary Society ( 1836 ) , the Wroclaw Flute Choral Society ( 1890 ) , the Sokoł Physical Culture Society ( 1894 ) , and the Association of Polish Boy Scouts in Germany ( 1912 ) . |
| 8 | Blushing hotly , she sprang out of reach and hurriedly backed away . |
| 9 | A tall , strong , mature boy , he considered ‘ doing a runner ’ and sprang out of bed . |
| 10 | The thought sent her spirits soaring upwards , and she sprang out of bed to open the curtains and let in the early sunshine . |
| 11 | Instantly he sprang out of bed , shouting her name , and ran all over the house looking for her . |
| 12 | The plants which seemed to have died during the winter 's cold — the snapdragon , the hibiscus and the frangipani — miraculously sprang back to life and back into bloom . |
| 13 | Now it sprang back into life . |
| 14 | As I ran my thumb over them , they immediately sprang back into place perfectly . |
| 15 | And the cold war procedures , routines and language sprang back into action . |
| 16 | One contained a great still lake , and they crossed it along a rock-bridge that sprang dizzily from wall to wall . |
| 17 | Then he sprang savagely on top of him , and grappled him by the throat — as once he must have grappled with little William . |
| 18 | The entire class took off in pursuit of the frog as it sprang nimbly from bench to bench . |
| 19 | If it did not spring out of contract it must , I apprehend , have arisen ( if at all ) from the relative situation and circumstances of the defendants and plaintiff at the time of the occurrence of the act of negligence . |
| 20 | Lights had sprung on inside Casa Sciorto 's rooms , spilling glowing pools of gold into the courtyard . |
| 21 | Later , they had returned on sailboards , taking advantage of the breeze that had sprung up around lunchtime . |
| 22 | Like most voluntary sector services , those for the black community have sprung up in response to local needs . |
| 23 | It was the end of Ramadan and the Old City , funereal for the last month , had sprung back to life with a vengeance . |
| 24 | Will he rediscover some electronic equivalent of the metaphor of the arch , and realize that computers could not have sprung spontaneously into existence but must have originated from some earlier process of cumulative selection ? |
| 25 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |
| 26 | The fullest and most fascinating case study is that of Churchill , whose famous ‘ Black Dog ’ depressions are shown to have sprung ineluctably from childhood traumas . |
| 27 | … female friendship represented for most women simply a rapturous sentimental union , springing perhaps from fear of male aggression or neglect but fed primarily by yearning for a partner in sensibility , a confidante in literature . |
| 28 | John Lilley 's Portal estate , at Tarporley , Chester , crashed into receivership and a plethora golf courses are springing up through farmland diversification projects . |
| 29 | First , the boards and the Committee for Science and Technology had the problem of deciding ‘ how far a subject was ‘ degree worthy ’ , because new subjects started springing up like grass in a corn field ’ : |
| 30 | The thought stimulated her into springing out of bed , showering hastily , and dressing in her warm green trousers and top . |