Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 2 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 3 | He decided to be generous and went in to the shop . |
| 4 | She tucked in her brown silk blouse , tossed her red hair free and strode off towards the editor 's office , Mitch behind her admiring her slender figure and keeping his thoughts strictly to himself . |
| 5 | As soon as his hold slackened a shade she pulled free and set off down the stairs . |
| 6 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 7 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 8 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 9 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 10 | ‘ And if one man did just what you say is impossible and slipped in on the darkside ? ’ |
| 11 | The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form . |
| 12 | We rose early and sailed back among the flying fish to Kalkan . |
| 13 | The nice young man could n't argue with that ; I paid the £25 extra and hurried out of the shop before he found a cheap white one . |
| 14 | I became bored and wandered back to the library . |
| 15 | After he stabbed the girl Cook told her he was sorry and ran out of the shop . |
| 16 | He escaped with Bean from the tea table as soon as possible and slipped out of the house , heading back for the open spaces of the industrial estate . |
| 17 | She gabbled something polite and slunk out of the door , just remembering in time to bid everybody goodbye . |
| 18 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 19 | I awoke feeling cold and crawled out to the front of the trench . |
| 20 | Even across the Park beyond the main fence of the Zoo , over which the eagles could see if they braved the cold and stared out from the top of their cages , there was not a single person . |
| 21 | At length I grew tired and went back to the joys of the tavern , both the board and the bed . |
| 22 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 23 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 24 | Eventually a few candles were lit , the band started playing , the couples uncoupled and went off to the back room , and the party went on . |
| 25 | No sooner was Neil in the air than the left gun panel in the upper wing surface came loose and stuck up in the air . |
| 26 | Yet when he saw her the next day and attempted to speak to her she told him to leave her alone and ran off into the prop-room . |
| 27 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 28 | Walking over , he caught the grey and started back down the hill with both ponies . |
| 29 | ‘ But tonight , when I hit the snake on the rope , it was angry and went back through the air-vent . |
| 30 | One hot night he came home drunk and lay down on the flower-bed in the garden just outside the studio and fell fast asleep . |