Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [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 | One of the young men at the rear of the little procession tugged at his rein and made to wheel and ride out of the wood . |
| 3 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 4 | Leave the Museum of Decorative Arts and walk along to the Svatopluka Čech Bridge of 1906 , by J. Soukup and J. Koula . |
| 5 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 6 | He was also chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and pointed out to the proprietor of the Daily Mail the danger of damaging democracy through a last minute election stunt story . |
| 7 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 8 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 9 | He waited ‘ till the tram drew abreast of the silent jeep and leaped on to the running board beside the driver . |
| 10 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 11 | Another bullet fired from the same revolver had entered the outside of the driver 's ( that is , the left-hand ) door of the jeep and passed through to the edge of the driver 's seat without striking Paulette . |
| 12 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 13 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 14 | Gordon sat quite still for a few seconds , then uncrossed his legs and went out of the room , a room in his own house , or rather his mother 's . |
| 15 | He let the jib sheet loose and heaved in on the main . |
| 16 | We now retrace our steps to Ponta do Sol and back up onto the road and continue along to Canhas . |
| 17 | Slice fungi and fry down with the butter and onions until all the liquid has evaporated . |
| 18 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |
| 19 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 20 | When he had gone , Jessamy wandered into the small bedroom and sat down on the bed , because her legs felt as if they just would n't hold her up any longer . |
| 21 | I waved to Didier and walked on between the pollarded limes . |
| 22 | The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance . |
| 23 | It lost speed and pulled up outside the kiosk with a squeal of brakes . |
| 24 | LOOSE ALICE , also known affectionately as Slack , shot out of the trap in a blur of speed and bore down on the man who was running in front of her squeezing a squeaky toy . |
| 25 | The class struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat became ever more intense ; mounting economic crises followed in rapid succession and spilled over into the catastrophe of world war . |
| 26 | The Mechelen striker , who is owned by his club president and leased out to the Belgian team , was on his way home last night after less than a week on Tyneside . |
| 27 | As the shadows lengthen , the men can be seen standing around with a pint of beer in hand , while mothers keep watchful eyes on the kids and catch up on the latest gossip . |
| 28 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 29 | It was unfair to the defendant and came about by the calculated action of the police to lull Newall into a false sense of security , he added . |
| 30 | He nodded at Corbett and walked out of the hall . |