Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 2 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 4 | On a pitch of uneven bounce England were put in and shot out before the end of the day for 200 , David Smith , Lamb and Botham the only ones to make an impression . |
| 5 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 6 | Anyway , in the disco we began to quarrel and just after nine we packed it in and went back to the van . |
| 7 | While she was looking at the pictures , Griselda , Anna 's mother 's cat , came in and jumped on to the cat woman 's lap . |
| 8 | He took no notice , but turned in and drew up in the courtyard . |
| 9 | A man came in and sat down in the seat opposite him . |
| 10 | They went in and sat down by the fire . |
| 11 | Quadrant Park is a great , glitzy three- storeyed chasm of a club in Bootle , which on Saturday nights becomes a suffocating fleshpit of 2,500 north-western ravers tuned in and turned on to the house sound of Merseyside . |
| 12 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
| 13 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
| 14 | The clothes lines were taken down and rolled up by the dustbins , together with the props . |
| 15 | She slowed down and looked up at the house now looming high above them . |
| 16 | After a long while the human put the paper down and reached over to the desk by its side . |
| 17 | Pamela put the phone down and strode out to the bus-stop . |
| 18 | She put the receiver down and went back into the cubicle . |
| 19 | She jumped down and ran out of the kitchen , shutting the door carefully behind her . |
| 20 | One of the men waved in his direction and he waved back , kept his head down and hurtled on down the track . |
| 21 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 22 | And so usually at the end of the day you you reversed your procedure and went back to the stalls and took the lines down and cleared up for the butchers and what have you , and then you usually got some meat , or perhaps some vegetables , and various things . |
| 23 | Toby ran to the sobbing boy and took the flannel , and as he did so a naked razor blade fluttered down and tinkled on to the floor . |
| 24 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 25 | Andrew put the leather helmet down and wandered over to the window . |
| 26 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 27 | Philip ran back down to the bit of broken fencing , climbed through and got back into the kitchen as the local news ended . |
| 28 | Someone kicked his washing-bag over and stared down at the spilled shirt sleeve , the maroon-edged handkerchief . |
| 29 | I walked over and looked out of the window into the yard below where several of the neighbours were looking up at me . |
| 30 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |