Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had barely finished congratulating ourselves and going round with the good news when Mrs Maddock 's little boy from the post office ran to tell us it had been torn down . |
| 2 | He held both her hands in his and looked down at the pale blur of her face . |
| 3 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 4 | As he passed Jenny 's door he paused momentarily , but shook his head at himself and went on down the stairs . |
| 5 | But Nicola 's husband recovered himself and padded over from the settee to switch off the television . |
| 6 | Vigo did n't press him but poured a glass of Manzanilla for himself and sat down by the window . |
| 7 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 8 | You 're not allowed to work on it and er that 's about it really , our programme , we 've decided to er start the pipe at the first position away from the tank construction and we 've , we 've set out , we employed a concrete layer and to lay out the pipes while we 're doing nothing and continue on with the so that while this gang is actually laying there 's only er six people in total . |
| 9 | He swivelled his chair away from me and stared out of the window . |
| 10 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 11 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 12 | I started to run up , straight up the hill , erm lucky the monster was running straight at me and sticking out of the crowd and he tripped over and after the end |
| 13 | He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow , the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live . |
| 14 | What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand . |
| 15 | He pushed past me and ran out of the house . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Yeah , well , ’ Andy says , coming to stand near me and look out over the water . |
| 18 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 19 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 20 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 21 | He clipped me and spun off into the wall and broke his neck . ’ |
| 22 | Alec slipped by me and set off towards the changing room at a sprint . |
| 23 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 24 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 25 | He squeezed them and kissed them and went off into the house . |
| 26 | And his mother promised him so to do ; and then he departed from them and went out against the frontier of the Moors . |
| 27 | Letting out a shriek , she races towards them and thumps down on the ground . |
| 28 | ‘ I can handle that , ’ he whispered fervently as he pushed past them and rushed off up the corridor . |
| 29 | Before they could move , someone pushed past them and shambled off down the corridor . |
| 30 | After much genuine persuasion , Shelley thanked them and sat down at the table . |