Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 2 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 3 | Miss Fogerty assured her that nothing would be disclosed and slipped out of the side door . |
| 4 | He pulled up at the pumps and the attendant , a young black wearing green coveralls and cap bearing the petrol company 's logo , approached and leaned down to the open window . |
| 5 | At a point with ‘ Arc ’ I said ‘ OK , we 're off and we 're flying , this is distorted and grunged out to the max ’ . |
| 6 | As the survivors are air-lifted to safety by helicopter , the badly wounded Elias is seen being pursued and shot down by the North Vietnamese , his outstretched arms at the moment of death consciously evoking the Crucifixion . |
| 7 | With the slaughter of the king , the English turned and ran , pursued and hunted down by the knights . |
| 8 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 9 | The solid trapdoor lifted and crashed over onto the tiled floor , and his heart soared as the torch light revealed the wooden rungs of a ladder descending into the darkness below . |
| 10 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 11 | When Georges Braque , badly wounded and invalided out of the infantry , came back to Paris in 1917 , Marie Wassilieff gave a banquet for him at her canteen . |
| 12 | So at baptism , the new Christian would be immersed and go down into the river or the immersion font in Burmese skirt and coat , and on emerging from the water be clothed with the three garments of a Burmese monk , only white in colour instead of saffron , this signing acceptance as a mature member of the religious community and the cleansing from sin . |
| 13 | Daine had been caught and convicted back in the real world . |
| 14 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 15 | To Marian it seemed that she and Allen were being overwhelmed and carried along by the rush of sound and the race of the sun up the sky , as though they were part of the birds ' song and the general triumphant awakening of the dawn . |
| 16 | The Dwarfs inside Kislev attempted to break out to help Magnus but they were contained and forced back behind the city 's walls . |
| 17 | I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . " |
| 18 | I was rescued and brought down to the ground . |
| 19 | The coroner 's jury had even brought in a sensational verdict , that ‘ the murder was organised and carried out by the Royal Irish Constabulary , officially directed by the British Government , and we return a verdict of wilful murder against David Lloyd George , Prime Minister of England … . ’ |
| 20 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 21 | The leaders turned and rode back to the inferno of a village . |
| 22 | Then , as Creggan abruptly turned and went down into the silence and gloom of his shelter , where no other eagle could see him and he could be alone with his thoughts , Kraal muttered after him , ‘ Golden eagle ! |
| 23 | The three faces turned and glared back over the demon 's shoulders . |
| 24 | ‘ Run , ’ Vitor instructed , and as Ashley obediently turned and headed off up the drive he sprinted beside her . |
| 25 | When Patrick had stormed out of the room , his head pounding , bile in his throat , he had started for his room , but then he had thought of Jane , and he had turned and headed back down the hall towards the room she shared with her sister . |
| 26 | Alexei turned and shouted back into the house . |
| 27 | The visitors turned and filed out of the room , realising that the conversation had come to an end . |
| 28 | But the stranger had already turned and walked off into the night , back along the towpath in the direction from which he 'd come . |
| 29 | If I 'd turned and walked out of the Moebius Strip , none of this would have happened . |
| 30 | It was absorbed and went in to the Carrick Herald and the Aire Advertiser , and now they 've all gone . |