Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 2 | She slammed the coffee-mug on to the table , put her hand to her mouth and rushed out of the room , taking the stairs two at a time . |
| 3 | Luckily he was sitting in a grandfather chair with sturdy arms which would prevent his falling , so I removed the soup bowl , turned his head on one side and rushed out of the front door , picking up our ‘ frog horn ’ on the way . |
| 4 | He was assigned to what was vaguely described as ‘ guard duty , ’ warned not to talk about his work and taken down to the basement to start . |
| 5 | The maid gave a knowing little nod and backed out of the door with a smile on her face . |
| 6 | One of the university students said she had brushed past him in the corridor and gone out into the street . |
| 7 | Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window . |
| 8 | And then , right in the middle of the Lord 's Prayer , she leapt up and grabbed her bottom and rushed out of the room . ’ |
| 9 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 10 | They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles ' cottage and the Vicarage on the way . |
| 11 | Thus adjured , Hector jumped off the bed with a short bark and trotted out of the room . |
| 12 | After quite a lot of persuasion and promises of chocolate bars , I finally got back into my canoe and headed off down the river to find my paddle and the rest of the group . |
| 13 | At last the Stones were bundled into the building and taken up onto the roof for the promised interview . |
| 14 | Father Pedro de Valderrama , the Trinidad 's padre , stood on the poop deck and called down on the crew of all three remaining vessels the blessing of Our Lady of Victory . |
| 15 | So we left the remote mountains of the north and west and headed back towards the central highlands and Mount Kenya , the main objective of our visit . |
| 16 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 17 | There is even talk of rebuilding the Kaiser 's Schloss , damaged in the war and blown up by the communists in 1950 . |
| 18 | Because he was clinging to the rudder , the plane slowly turned in a circle and headed back to the island . |
| 19 | Only a flicker from the television , reflected in the gloss of his eye and thrown up against the blank darkness , lent him the illusion of a lustre passing through her body , opaline . |
| 20 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 21 | Both his father and his uncle had been Stickies , while several younger relatives were reputed to have broken with the official wing and gone over to the Provies . |
| 22 | At the last moment the hare sensed the danger and bounded off into the undergrowth . |
| 23 | I crouched , shivering with cold , until I was dragged up and thrown into a huge cage on a gaudily painted cart and driven down through the Shambles and Westchepe to the magistrates at the Guildhall . |
| 24 | When the master file is to be reorganized , this ancillary file will be sorted into descending count order , and the records are read from the old direct file and loaded on to the new in this order . |
| 25 | The work reported in this thesis was sponsored by General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc and carried out at the Medical Research Council 's Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge and I thank Alan Baddeley and all at the unit for making the work possible . |
| 26 | When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel . |
| 27 | Or some pathetic tailor like Taplow being trapped in his little cage and taken off to the slaughter house . |
| 28 | You grabbed your jacket from the Green Room and rushed out of the theatre . |
| 29 | The " furniture " was then to be arranged into a design for the room and drawn on to the grid . |
| 30 | This is available as a white powder which is mixed with water and painted on to the concrete . |