Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nellie bent to look out of the window , parting the curtain with one hand . |
| 2 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 3 | Becky kept holding on to the picture . |
| 4 | Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him . |
| 5 | The whole of the vale of Pickering lay spread out before the two riders , stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 6 | Corbett marched Ranulf out into the porch . |
| 7 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 8 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 9 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 10 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 11 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 12 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 13 | Behind him , Ann had come out of the kitchen with Matthew clutching her skirt . |
| 14 | Ann said hold on to the pattern , she said I do n't know what to do , erm knit them |
| 15 | Maisie had gone round to the passenger door of the Volkswagen and was standing , one hand poised to open it as soon as Henry should unlock it . |
| 16 | Elizabeth Addams lived next door , Thomas Addams was still at work in his smith 's shop , Thomas Burge had taken over as the Bristol carrier , and the Clement family were producing cloth for all they were worth in workshops at the end of the street . |
| 17 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 18 | " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop . |
| 19 | We were ready , even to the pitcher of orange juice , bucket of champagne and iced flask of vodka that waited on a table Ellen had carried up to the cockpit . |
| 20 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 21 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 22 | Kylie ran sobbing out of the studios and did what was still the most natural thing in the world for a 20-year-old girl — she ran home to mummy . |
| 23 | David sat looking down at the empty wine glass that he was turning round and round between his hands . |
| 24 | Once again he listened calmly to her tearful pleas , and once again Scott refused to walk out on the station and join Annabel . |
| 25 | Pete got fed up with the slow roach sport and decided to switch to a spinner . |
| 26 | Ginny tried to back out of the bathroom . |
| 27 | Miss Florence seemed to skip out of the storeroom and within a minute skip back , displaying a hat on each hand . |
| 28 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Tottenham celebrated bouncing out of the red as they banked nearly £6m from the sale of former Magpie Paul Gascoigne and immediately announced new plans to make money out of the midfield wizard . |
| 30 | Tallis followed glancing back at the huge carvings , their grotesque faces watching her , some compassionately , some with mocking expressions . |