Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held both her hands in his and looked down at the pale blur of her face . |
| 2 | Nothing that went on in the town was a secret for long . |
| 3 | As he passed Jenny 's door he paused momentarily , but shook his head at himself and went on down the stairs . |
| 4 | Vigo did n't press him but poured a glass of Manzanilla for himself and sat down by the window . |
| 5 | He swivelled his chair away from me and stared out of the window . |
| 6 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 7 | He pushed past me and ran out of the house . |
| 8 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 9 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 10 | He clipped me and spun off into the wall and broke his neck . ’ |
| 11 | Alec slipped by me and set off towards the changing room at a sprint . |
| 12 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 13 | He squeezed them and kissed them and went off into the house . |
| 14 | And his mother promised him so to do ; and then he departed from them and went out against the frontier of the Moors . |
| 15 | ‘ I can handle that , ’ he whispered fervently as he pushed past them and rushed off up the corridor . |
| 16 | Before they could move , someone pushed past them and shambled off down the corridor . |
| 17 | After much genuine persuasion , Shelley thanked them and sat down at the table . |
| 18 | She wanted to spend as much time as possible with them and ended up at the other end of the plane . ’ |
| 19 | They took the goose between them and set off along the line that shone silver in the moonlight . |
| 20 | It bucked wildly in the night sky , as if deciding whether or not Richard Branson had been lucky enough already , then righted itself and plied on through the night sky , swift and inviolate . |
| 21 | Constance said nothing but walked back into the kitchen , where she lifted the lid off the soup and stood staring at it . |
| 22 | Well it was just a a guild for women who could take their knitting and have a cup of tea and discuss everything that went on in the Cooperative , you know . |
| 23 | This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes . |
| 24 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 25 | Corbett was just about to leave to collect his cob from the stables when he remembered something and hurried back to the ferrymaster . |
| 26 | Fleury tripped over something and sat down on the floor while the sepoy worked his shoulders a little to loosen himself up for a swipe . |
| 27 | I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one . |
| 28 | During breakfast , when the guest left his room key and tag unattended at the table the criminal replaced the room key with a false one and went up to the room to complete his business undisturbed . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ! ’ she gasped , as she righted herself and looked up into the victim 's face . |
| 30 | At the last moment she twisted away from him and ran back towards the orderlies . |