Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I waved to Didier and walked on between the pollarded limes .
2 He nodded at Corbett and walked out of the hall .
3 At midday we reached Garrigues and piled out of the trucks to set up all our equipment in the farm building ; it was better appointed than the one at Canjuers , and there was running water , lavatories , sinks and beds .
4 She bent and kissed Dionne and slammed out of the flat .
5 A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants .
6 ‘ Be our guest , ’ said Noolan and went back into the social room leaving the large figure , head wreathed in cigarette smoke , seated at the top of the big committee sized table .
7 Davies suffered the injury in the 10th minute of the match against Orrell but stayed on until the end to score the points which virtually ended the Lancashire club 's championship hopes .
8 She turned her back on Simon and walked off into the sand dunes .
9 ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . )
10 I never really listened to The Beatles and looked out for the guitar , I 'd just listen to the song as a whole .
11 He said something to the Feldwebel and went out of the room .
12 On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium .
13 He loved his home in Ireland and got on with the people .
14 While he was getting ready , I wandered back to the turning where I 'd left Armstrong and looked back across the road .
15 They stopped on the promenade at Cultra and looked out over the blackness of Belfast Lough , alive with twinkling lights .
16 Dara fled back to Agra and set off on the road to Delhi without daring to face his father .
17 The Hercules has been there with the RAF and got on with the job .
18 Potter thought he was Peter Pan and flew out of the window of the Commercial Hotel .
19 She picked up Jacqueline and ran out into the garden .
20 As the tide rose , water was forced back up the Westbury Brook and held back by the sluice gates .
21 ‘ She had a blazing row with Eddie and stormed out of the house , ’ Rachel replied .
22 Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista .
23 I went out into Main Street and started off for the pier .
24 I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year
25 But alas , alack , someone in Dover took a can-opener to their trusty Sherpa van on Sunday 22nd November and waltzed off with the following : a purple sunburst ESP Horizon 5-string bass in flightcase ; a 1982 Stratocaster in faded cream with ciggie burns on the headstock , also in a flightcase ; a sunburst Telecaster , also with ciggie burns and in a black moulded Fender case ; a 100-watt Marshall Hi-gain Dual Reverb head ; a Roland R-5 drum machine ; an Aztec wireless system in case with Studiomaster mic ; two bags — one ex-army , one sports bag — containing a large assortment of leads , strings , tuners , power supplies etc. , and a home-made pedal-board with a BOSS Stereo Chorus , an Ibanez bass compressor and an Aria stage tuner .
26 Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side .
27 They raced away from the drama in which world champion , Senna , crashed into Schumacher 's Benetton and crashed out of the running .
28 The final meeting took place on Nov. 21 in Havana , Cuba , of the Joint Monitoring Commission ( JMC ) on south western Africa , comprising representatives from Angola , Cuba , Namibia , and South Africa and set up under the Brazzaville Protocol of Dec. 13 , 1988 [ see p. 36380 ] to oversee the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 435/78 , on Namibian independence and the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola .
29 ‘ They started at L'Escargot , went on to Annabel 's , then Crazy Larry 's , then L'Equipe Anglaise and finished up at the Chelsea Arts Club .
30 It blinded Willie and trickled down inside the collar of his mackintosh .
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