Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when she wrote down ‘ I 'm afraid that if I find a man who loves me … , one evening , she was amazed to find words spilling out on to the paper . |
| 2 | A broad terrace ran round it with tufts of herbs growing on it and broken steps leading down on to the ruins of a lawn . |
| 3 | They zigzagged around tree trunks and saw the dark shapes scurrying along out of the corner of their eyes . |
| 4 | Pete 's sea , the sea around the oil-rig , was grey , surely , up there in the cold : metallic and swelling , full of menace , fog drifting over the water , wreaths of mist obscuring the long , iron joints , the hard angles sticking up out of the ice-cold darkness of the waves . |
| 5 | He warned MacLachlan , who recorded : ‘ Just as I took my place in the circle I saw four more Messerschmitts coming down out of the sun . |
| 6 | There were two black lines of metal there , two rails slanting up out of the hangar and disappearing in the darkness |
| 7 | On a raised dais in front of large windows looking out on to the agricultural college gardens sat the Inspector . |
| 8 | It was a room within a room , with windows looking out on to the cabin walls beyond . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , ’ he would say as they sat in one of those cafes with the plate glass windows looking out on to the beach and the sea , ‘ there 's a rocker over there . |
| 10 | Alexandra suddenly found she was crying , great gulping sobs , tears splashing down on to the kitchen counter , an aching sense of something very precious which she had discarded without even a second glance . |
| 11 | Mysteriously they were alone now , all the other people in the room had gone , with the breeze gently swirling the curtains of the French windows leading out on to the terrace . |
| 12 | The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right . |
| 13 | How she had managed it , God knows , except perhaps that beautiful and exciting women dropping in out of the blue at the bottom of the world were not very plentiful . |
| 14 | She saw too , in her mind 's eye , the heaving bulk of the buffalo bull struggling in the grass in its death throes , saw once more the blindly charging cow and the ragged black vultures flopping down out of the sky , and all these images crowding through her mind heightened the vague sense of turbulence that was growing inside her with the gathering storm . |