Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 2 | He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit . |
| 3 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 4 | At last Cranston belched , stretched , and beamed round the tavern , snapping his fingers to call Talbot over . |
| 5 | It was a warm and friendly night , and the sea swished and whispered on the sand . |
| 6 | He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell . |
| 7 | The thin figure leaned over and whispered in the sleeper 's ear . |
| 8 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
| 9 | Duncan looked at the long green grass and , as he looked , the wind blew strong and the tall , green grasses swayed and whispered in the wind . |
| 10 | The night sky was brilliant and the stars seemed to wink like precious stones against the velvet darkness ; the streets , carpeted by ice and hard snow , shimmered and glowed under the pale moonlight . |
| 11 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 12 | He dashed across the garden and pounced upon the garden gate , pressing the latch with his big feet . |
| 13 | a fat woman … frightened and fainted in the street ; |
| 14 | The edict of Guntram issued at Péronne , and appended to the canons of the Council of Mâcon of 585 , continues royal involvement in ecclesiastical legislation , with an attack on Sunday work , and by backing the force of the canons with secular sanctions . |
| 15 | And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once . |
| 16 | This , together with the political dimension , means that it is hardly surprising that problems such as the inner cities tend to be defined and redefined over the years . |
| 17 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 18 | ’ … if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . ’ |
| 19 | 9 – ( 1 ) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price is to be fixed by the valuation of a third party , and he can not or does not make the valuation , the agreement is avoided ; but if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . |
| 20 | Even liberals believed that the colonies would remain loyal if they received economic benefits and shared in the ideals of liberty , equality and fraternity , which France provided through her ‘ civilising mission ’ . |
| 21 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 22 | He crouched down and clung to the rail with his right hand and reached out with his left as if to punch a hole through the wall . |
| 23 | She curled up in the darkest corner , pillowing her head on her arm , and clung to the memory of four hours before , when the time had stilled and she had been not , sweet tearing bliss … . |
| 24 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 25 | We watched the emergence of one moth ; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon , and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads . |
| 26 | A cold damp hung about the beechwood furniture and clung to the velour drapes . |
| 27 | A string of mucus hung from her left nostril and clung to the curve of her lipsticked mouth ; the waitresses kept looking across at the table . |
| 28 | The ground dipped and swayed beneath her ; she felt dizzy and clung to the rails , forcing herself to go down , to keep looking up , away from the void below . |
| 29 | Millicent Fawcett vehemently objected to family allowances becoming a feminist plank and clung to the typically nineteenth-century belief that allowances ‘ would destroy the fabric of family life by wiping out the responsibility of parents for the maintenance of their children ’ . |
| 30 | Madge had offered to carry her bag but she drew away and clung to the bannister rail . |