Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 2 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 3 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 4 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 5 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 6 | Burun leapt to his feet and charged out of the door . |
| 7 | Zeinab rose to her feet and swept out of the box . |
| 8 | ‘ The parcels are collected during the day by one of our franchisees and taken back to the depot . |
| 9 | Decked in tasselled yellow howdah cloths and ridden by straw-hatted Annamese mahouts perched straddle-legged behind their ears , a dozen elephants lumbered slowly across the flagstones and lined up before the open doors . |
| 10 | " The Youth Militant supporters must be seen in their true light of splitters and disrupters and cleared out of the youth movement , " urged John Gollan , secretary of the Young Communist League , after the conference . |
| 11 | The vast majority of these were hastily-assembled hack jobs , pieced together from published sources and fleshed out with the dubious reminiscences of alleged veterans . |
| 12 | I felt they might have a better chance of getting to the capital if they were folded into paper aeroplanes and launched out of the door . |
| 13 | They have gone through privatization and ceased being Civil Servants and gone out into the cold and now they are suffering this blow , so they do , I think , deserve the most generous possible treatment . |
| 14 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 15 | They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room . |
| 16 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 17 | Reason had grown wings and flown out of the window , but she knew that she had to recapture it or else give in to him , and live to regret her weakness . |
| 18 | The General Household Survey is conducted annually , and the Family Expenditure Survey and New Earnings Survey are commissioned by government departments and carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 19 | If streets are to be seized from the dominance of ‘ canned ’ humans and given back to the ‘ fresh ’ ones , a commitment to a positive policy of encouraging walking throughout the city is inescapable . |
| 20 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 21 | Peering into the gloom I moved up , ready for anything , plopped in two comforting nuts , swung across a void , stretched up to creaking jugs and levered up to the arête , fully expecting to face an overhanging wall . |