Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Carefully , he straightened and looked out through the fluted glass in the upper part of the door . |
| 32 | Riven straightened and glared over at the longhouses . |
| 33 | The boy ran on to the flats where Zeinab lived and rushed in at the entrance . |
| 34 | Now there 's a little piece , can I mention a little piece in the local thing , there 's a little press release here which Robert produced and sent off to the local newspaper . |
| 35 | The girls , looking one to the other , darting hate , hardly three foot tall , arose and walked down to the front of the class . |
| 36 | Zak waved , retreated and set off down the corridor , flat-footed almost at once after his bounce in the dining car , and already with drooping shoulders consulting his notebook about what he needed to do next . |
| 37 | He frowned and stared down at the grain of the table . |
| 38 | She frowned and looked out of the window . |
| 39 | He burst out laughing , and before she could retort he swivelled and made back towards the stables . |
| 40 | I swivelled and strode up to the end of a passage . |
| 41 | Aboard the plane as it climbed and headed out over the Gulf of Finland she sat in a daze . |
| 42 | ‘ Good , ’ he said thickly , raking a hand through his hair , then turned and strode out of the villa , slamming the door behind him with a crash that reverberated through the house . |
| 43 | Ben turned and stared out across the water fixedly . |
| 44 | Alone again , he turned and stared out across the shadowed lands of his estate towards the distant mountains . |
| 45 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 46 | Ben hurried to the shutters and threw them open , then turned and stared back into the room . |
| 47 | It had become a very sad sight indeed , but Jack hardly noticed as he turned and stared back down the hill to Sakata , its neat rows of buildings looking like so much Lego . |
| 48 | He turned and stared back down the muddy track . |
| 49 | With a slow smile that gave his face quite extraordinary charm , he picked up his bowl , waved a languid hand , then turned and ambled back across the garden , his borrowings clutched ridiculously to his large chest . |
| 50 | Miss Honey had heard the sound of Matilda 's feet racing over the gravel and now she straightened up and turned and stepped out of the rose-bed as the child came running up . |
| 51 | And she turned and went on down the path . |
| 52 | Aggie took two or three steps backwards , smiled , and turned and went out of the room , leaving the door wide open . |
| 53 | Then he turned and went out of the door . |
| 54 | A shy and tentative smile came to the girl 's face and then she turned and went out of the room , walking as surely and as gracefully as if she could see just like everyone else . |
| 55 | Without another word , he turned and went out of the room . |
| 56 | Then he turned and went out in the garden again , closing the door behind him . |
| 57 | She stared at me blankly for a moment , then turned and went back to the sitting room . |
| 58 | ‘ Cheers , lads , ’ Duncan said as we turned and went back to the pillar . |
| 59 | Without saying anything further , Millie turned and went back into the house ; and Ben followed her , there to see Aggie shambling into the room , and although her eyes looked full of sleep , their powers of discernment were indeed wide awake . |
| 60 | Then he turned and went back into the house . |