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

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1 The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below .
2 Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial .
3 Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man .
4 But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law .
5 Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’
6 Repechages for the other places were rowed on Tuesday evening but yesterday 's final was cancelled when the wind blew up again and made racing out of the question .
7 He ducked his head and made to step out into the sunshine .
8 If that image changes rapidly in time , as it would in a moving video sequence , for example , then a huge amount of digital information must be stored , transferred and processed to keep up with the requirements of delivering the motion video to the user .
9 BREAKFAST listeners were left in silence when two radio presenters nipped off for a coffee during the news — and got locked out of the studio .
10 ‘ We also played badly in two one-day games and got knocked out of the NatWest and B&H as a result . ’
11 His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster .
12 I sat in the road during a demonstration and got hauled off to the police station in Newbury .
13 ' 'Lo , Olga , ’ she said mechanically and moved to pass out of the same door ; but Mrs Stych wanted to show off her outfit .
14 ‘ Why , so that you can ease your own frustration and put the blame on me ? ’ she managed to shoot back , and tried to wriggle out of the bag , unsuccessfully .
15 I kissed her and held her and tried to get out of the house without saying goodbye to anyone .
16 The pilots were drunk and half-naked ; they got no help from the French girls , who simply screamed and tried to get out of the window .
17 Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome .
18 If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job .
19 This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft .
20 A group of shaven-headed yobbos , with tattooed cheeks and nationalistic leanings , observed this from the upper deck and came swarming down from the bus .
21 The group of horsemen , wide-scattered , not in any formation , appeared silhouetted on the ridge and came streaming on towards the ford .
22 She unlocked her eyes from his and turned to pass through to the apartment .
23 Patrick shook his head and turned to walk back to the foyer .
24 Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon .
25 He covered seventy yards to gain the partial cover of the shrubbery , flung himself amongst the undergrowth , and turned to look back at the chateau .
26 She fiddled with the strap of her small black leather shoulder-bag , and turned to stare out of the glass doors at the hot afternoon scene beyond .
27 They laboured inside , trailing their horses by the reins , half of them fighting a ferocious rearguard battle whilst the grypesh massed within the gate and strove to win through to the courtyard beyond .
28 They talked for a while longer before Coffin put down the receiver and returned to look out of the window .
29 Georg looked at her and for a moment she thought he was going to grab her , thought he was going to cry himself , but he suddenly stormed out of the dairy and began to stride up towards the lower pasture .
30 The juggernaut started with a cough and splutter , was thrown into gear and began to move off down the narrow road .
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