Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lapsed into a sullen silence as the cab left the confines of the airport terminal and cruised up the turnpike onto the freeway . |
| 2 | Organised in regular gangs or teams on the model of seasonal harvesters , led by an elected captain who negotiated terms and shared out the proceeds of the contract , poor peasants from Italy , Croatia or Ireland would criss-cross continents or even oceans to provide labour for the builders of towns , factories or railways . |
| 3 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 4 | At last the cabby climbed up to his seat and whipped up the horse . |
| 5 | The curtains were still pulled and he placed one of the packages of groceries on the table , holding the other to his side as he went across the room and whipped back the heavy green curtains . |
| 6 | I saw the barrels begin to spin and that 's when I snatched up Barry and whipped out the trusty Smith and West Wittering . |
| 7 | Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz . |
| 8 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 9 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 10 | A few notable articles discussed in the following chapters have taken this further and laid out the implications of successful conservation . |
| 11 | Mr Cyril Stayley was the initial foreman of this shop and he established and laid out the system of repair . |
| 12 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 13 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 14 | Where Mother fried the fish , lit the Friday night candles and laid out the clothes in the order my brother and I would put them on . |
| 15 | A little way along , Vern stopped and sat on the very same wall and gazed up the gorge , like I 'd done , at the high flying bridge . |
| 16 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
| 17 | Eric spat and choked down the line , and there followed the noise of the phone-box handset being smashed around the inside of the booth . |
| 18 | At the next trick , I continued my strategy of playing Clubs and led out the 9 . |
| 19 | Each girlfriend is blindfolded and led down the line , burying her nose in the chest of each man — who must keep quiet — and taking a sniff . |
| 20 | They came instead upon another of Whipple 's scouting parties , under Lieutenant S.M. Rains , and wiped out the entire twelve-man detachment . |
| 21 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 22 | She took a cloth and wiped down the counter . |
| 23 | Polly finished drying the dishes and wiped down the cooker and the work surfaces , vaguely aware of the engine 's deep rumble and the sensation of movement . |
| 24 | The visitor sat back and watched the alchemy of the coffee take shape as the slightly stale odour of boiling milk permeated the room and steamed up the windows that looked down into Sauchiehall Street . |
| 25 | Sailing on the night on 26 December — the day Colonel Harrison 's men landed in the Lofoten Islands — the Vaagsö force met the submarine HMS Tuna on station as their navigation check at 0700 hours off Vaagsfjord and steamed up the fjord between spectacular snow-covered hills glinting in the dark . |
| 26 | He stated that the British were not persuaded by the move for major changes in the institutional balance within the Community and ruled out the proposals for giving the European Parliament the right of co-decision over the Council of Ministers on legislative matters . |
| 27 | But , even though it discouraged optimism and ruled out the possibility of progress , it did not weigh too heavily on medieval historians , particularly because the year 1000 which had been awaited by many with a mixture of hope and trepidation , had passed without any sign of the world coming to an end . |
| 28 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 29 | Then I returned to the tinker camp and sought out the same woman . |
| 30 | Bragg and Morton went through the unpretentious entrance of the New Club , in King Street , and sought out the Secretary . |