Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words came mumbling up from beneath the bent head . |
| 2 | Newman drove along the narrow road he 'd turned on to off the B4027 at no more than thirty miles an hour . |
| 3 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 4 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 5 | Tony inquired peeping out from under the bed . |
| 6 | Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind the encyclopedia just when she was needing money so badly . |
| 7 | What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy . |
| 8 | The boy had crawled out from beneath the blanket and knelt there , looking across at Tuan Ti Fo , his eyes wide with fear . |
| 9 | Although he was clearly a grand gentleman — and she could sense the larger houses up and down the valley waking up to his presence like hunting dogs suddenly scenting a stag on the wind — his consideration for her — in one or two trivial matters — was nearer to the sort of decent , friendly understandings she herself had grown up with in the village . |
| 10 | Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's our newest arrival ’ said the Foreman with a laugh ; adding thoughtlessly , ‘ and I 'll bet her conditions are better than the ones you had to put up with in the war . |
| 12 | Which is just as well considering what she had to put up with from the fans . |
| 13 | At Ladbroke Grove a boy called Dean Miller , whom the rest of them knew and had teamed up with on the platform at Royal Oak , opened the door at the end of the car and climbed up on to the roof . |
| 14 | Troy turned to Boldwood , who had stepped out from behind the tree , his face white and his whole body trembling . |