Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they enter lakes , their sensitivity to the slightest movement in the water enables them to swim straight through into the feeder rivers . |
| 2 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 3 | But no wh what I 'm , when I said borne out later on I mean later on in the report |
| 4 | Someone came quietly out of the crowd and spoke to the other officer , looking at me . |
| 5 | I walk right up to the end of the platform . |
| 6 | I do n't want to go near them , so I walk right up against the shops , sort of leaning right against the windows so they wo n't get me . |
| 7 | Nellie and I tiptoed quietly back down the aisle and out of the door . |
| 8 | From the tower I climbed carefully down to the causeway and walked amid screeching seabirds to the end of the island , where the foaming water was groaning and pounding dramatically into a wide gash in the rock , known as the Blow Hole . |
| 9 | When Gray and Mr Trelawney were helping the captain , I climbed quickly out of the stockade and ran into the trees . |
| 10 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
| 11 | I walked slowly back to the hotel . |
| 12 | A little while later , I walked slowly out of the house . |
| 13 | Then I walked fast on to the dark lonely marshes . |
| 14 | I walked sadly back through the connecting passage to Number 11 , and waited almost stunned with the news . |
| 15 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 16 | I glanced quickly about in the gloom , and then back to those distant , utterly silent towers of flickering flame . |
| 17 | Oh well I suppose later on in the day if you have a look . |
| 18 | ’ Not me , ’ I told her as I struggled painfully up from the pouch-seat . |
| 19 | I looked guiltily out of the open door . |
| 20 | I looked drowsily around at the empty green miles sleeping under the sunshine . |
| 21 | ‘ For a start , I go right along with the ‘ never look a gift horse in the mouth ’ proverb , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I went right up in the air . |
| 23 | I went right back to the top of the Wainui hill , but there was no trace of the pannier . |
| 24 | I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again . |
| 25 | Why are you working on that on the stairs and anyway I went right down to the bottom ! |
| 26 | So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor . |
| 27 | " Go out in the airfield and we will tell you , and field away out , " they said , I went away out to the most remarkable end until I was on the edge of the main runway . |
| 28 | I went straight round to the Brigadier 's house and rang . |
| 29 | I went straight out to the bin to get rid of them before my mother could see them . |
| 30 | And then I went straight back to the party . |