Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on . |
| 2 | The little one 's heard Mummy pull up on the drive and has come down the stairs well before anyone could say anything he got it out . |
| 3 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 4 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 5 | As an innovator , what directions would you like to see archaeology go in over the next twenty years ? |
| 6 | She had seen Amy drive up to the house on Saturday morning . |
| 7 | It is often better to bite your lip and let pupils charge off in the ‘ wrong ’ direction , because the more of this kind of work you do the less you will be able to define ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 8 | • Many environmental consultancies produce publications to help clients keep up with the fast changing world of environmental legislation and regulatory affairs issues . |
| 9 | we might see boats fall out of the sky too . |
| 10 | She heard Oliver stump out of the room and the sound of water running . |
| 11 | She heard Klift cry out under the shattering din of the falling rock . |
| 12 | Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left . |
| 13 | If that is so , the easiest way out of this battle of the sexes will be for firms to let employees opt out of the company scheme and use their money to buy a private pension . |
| 14 | Then I heard Hywel come back into the room and the smiling stopped . |
| 15 | ‘ God , though , it 's tempting , ’ William says , leaning back and letting Andy crane out over the pyramid of glasses again . |
| 16 | One of the most moving things of the whole voyage was when I saw Uskair loom out of the mist . |
| 17 | Behind Kragan , Adam saw Kaas come back into the room . |
| 18 | I saw Falconer go up to the top of the tower . |
| 19 | As he did so , he saw Hasan walk out from the back kitchen . |
| 20 | But a short time later Michael saw Dale walk out onto the balcony to play with his toys . |
| 21 | And she saw Adam start up from the Starr grass . |
| 22 | Then she saw Sophia go over to the statue of the Virgin Mary . |
| 23 | As she watched , Daisy saw Sophia come out into the garden with Faustina in her arms . |
| 24 | The 1990s saw Japan take over from the US as the world 's dominant power . |
| 25 | I explained rapidly about the pillbox and sure enough we saw Cawthorne set out from the farmhouse , walking diagonally across the Paddock towards the fence . |
| 26 | At first I though she had pissed herself , then I saw flowers tumble out of the sky and hit the water ahead of me like some strange rain . |
| 27 | As I waited in the porch with the bridesmaids , I saw Shanti get out of the car , take her father 's arm , and walk towards us . |
| 28 | ( i.e. would miss seeing children go by on the way to and from school ) . |
| 29 | I see in today 's papers that Batty will be back in the team for tomorrow , does this mean that Wilko will drop Fairclough or Newsome or will he let Rocky go back to the bench and play essentially a back 6 ? |
| 30 | Did Tolkien go on from the exploitation of occasional scenes to the manipulation of plot , the creation of recognisably symbolic characters , the thing the TLS reviewer asked for so plaintively , ‘ a clear message for the modern world ’ ? |