Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 2 | The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion . |
| 3 | ‘ OK , here we are , ’ Sadat says unnecessarily , and pulls his bag off the back seat and gets out of the car . |
| 4 | But woe betide any minister who does not possess a country seat and sets off across the Channel to ‘ abroad ’ . |
| 5 | Ponds , marshes and mires fill the hollows , alternating with higher ground which emerges first from under the snow and dries out in the course of summer . |
| 6 | A man stranded on a desert island builds a rowing boat and sets out for the nearest land . |
| 7 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 8 | The Headless Horseman appears on the carriage and swoops down on the adventurers . |
| 9 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 10 | The sense of shared knowledge and teamwork has been further accentuated by the numerous glimpses and views up into the studio spaces , the upstairs offices and surrounding meeting rooms . |
| 11 | When the transistor came along , we thought that with valves and relays out of the way , electronics would never ( well , hardly ever ) break down . |
| 12 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 13 | Finally , the pilot centralises the rudder and eases out of the dive . |
| 14 | She should have ticked off Miss Vine 's name on her list and been ready to carry the empty plates and covers back to the van . |
| 15 | Its last hours are like those of Camembert ; it becomes a liquid smelly mess and runs out of the joint , leaving only a dirty mark behind . |
| 16 | We can trace the current state of our knowledge about village origins and changes back to the 1940s . |
| 17 | How true were the observations of Ecclesiastes : ‘ The wind goeth towards the south and turneth about into the north : it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits . ’ |
| 18 | Keep lighters and matches out of the reach of children . |
| 19 | The Nene rises one mile west of Badby and flows on through the County , passing Peterborough and on to the Wash , 110 miles away . |
| 20 | Michael is just becoming interested in this last point when , for no discernible reason , the signing student becomes deeply agitated , screams abuse and storms out of the room . |
| 21 | Grant Simons presents a view of the inside of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie at the USAF Museum and looks back into the type 's turbulent past |
| 22 | He takes the wood and disappears back into the tent . |
| 23 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 24 | A substantial stone-lined stepped culvert that supplied water to the wheel still remains under the lane and empties back into the stream via a long tail-race to the rear of the mill . |
| 25 | So the ancient species , encountering no change , makes no change and plods on across the millennia , generation after generation , an ultra-conservative . |
| 26 | Where the main dale leaves the National Park and opens out into the flatter farmland of the old North Riding is Wensley itself , now a tiny village compared to its bigger neighbour of Leyburn , a busy typical northern Dales town with its wide main street and broad pavements laid out for market stalls . |
| 27 | A gently ascending forest track leads up through woods and comes out into the open at the summit of the trail , to give a fine view of the whole length of the Urner See , framed by the Fronalpstock ( 1,922m , 6,304ft ) and Rophaien ( 2,078m , 6,81 6ft ) peaks towering over the bluffs of the opposite ( east ) shore . |
| 28 | Before the strip cools , take the candle and tip it so that a drop of wax falls on to the strip and spreads out around the hole . |
| 29 | Fairfax leaves the tent and walks over to the fire . |
| 30 | Oak woodland covers the next stretch of hillside on the right and leads on to the Forestry Commission conifer forest . |