Example sentences of "spring [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 2 | This event sprung up following the failure of the Squash Rackets Association to secure a sponsor for this year 's national championships and a resultant boycott from most of the leading professionals . |
| 3 | They are often sited in very desirable locations : mental hospitals , in particular , such as the former county asylums which sprung up after the Lunacy Act of 1847 , are located on the outskirts of towns , in landscaped grounds thoughtfully planned for the patients ' well-being . |
| 4 | Liam sprang on to a table , raised a glass and began to declaim a speech . |
| 5 | Vic hesitated , then sprang on to the filing cabinet . |
| 6 | A hard square of orange light sprang on in the darkness . |
| 7 | Local protest groups including Clevelandbased NEON sprang up along the length of the proposed line as the campaign against the pylons grew . |
| 8 | A bright red weal sprang up along the point of impact , a blaze of angry colour , and she watched it slowly spread , her breath rasping in her throat , her chest heaving raggedly . |
| 9 | Millions of old people joined the Townsend Clubs that sprang up across the nation . |
| 10 | But the lies Emerson had told sprang up as a barrier between them , insurmountable because they could not be acknowledged . |
| 11 | The siren ceased , the lighting stabilized and a large image sprang up on the wall behind him . |
| 12 | A new shadow sprang up on the hull , a dark wave , and then the light went out . |
| 13 | He sprang up with a cry , and in the same moment the tent collapsed upon him , pinning him to the ground under its heavy folds , and the hammering rain held it there , flattened crushingly over his breast , moulding itself to every feature of his face , so that he was nearly suffocated . |
| 14 | The water that formed the well sprang up at the spot . |
| 15 | The words of Chris Bott , anarchist or , more politely , ‘ libertarian left ’ , as laid out in giant 36-point type and printed in lurid blue on a red background on the cover of Ink , one of the crop of underground papers that sprang up at the end of the 1960s . |
| 16 | Legend has it that the flowers turned red , with the shape of a cross in the centre , when they sprang up after a battle . |
| 17 | One day he flew into a cloud and no trace of either plane or pilot was ever seen again ; a legend sprang up among a generation of French schoolchildren that he had been translated bodily to Heaven . |
| 18 | It seemed unlikely , however , that the committees of provincial gentry which sprang up in the wake of the Nazimov Rescript would welcome any form of emancipation , let alone emancipation with land . |
| 19 | It 's clear that the many non-party political groups which sprang up in the wake of the election , bodies such as Common Cause and Scotland United , are now prepared to work together in a coalition to stage further events highlighting the deficiencies of the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 20 | Implexion sprang up in the bed . |
| 21 | Committees sprang up in the refugee concentrations around Israel 's new borders . |
| 22 | The signs of rebirth , small enough to be overlooked , sprang up in the dirt for those who had eyes to see . |
| 23 | She sprang up from the bed with that quick restless grace which had always delighted him , and pulled on her green dress . |
| 24 | Rickie , apparently still vibrating to the music , sprang up from the stateroom couch . |
| 25 | A lawyer , he lives in one of the swish apartment blocks which sprang out of the rubble left by the last act of licensed hooliganism to hit Cagliari , namely the second world war . |
| 26 | He sprang out of the car and was banging on the front door . |
| 27 | The Thames barges , built of living wood that gave and sprang back in the face of the wind , were as much at home as anything on the river . |
| 28 | Hector squealed as the trap lifted a fraction , but Theda quickly drew the foot out and the trap sprung back with a clang . |
| 29 | In later years , one union member pointed out that there was " a new generation of printers who have sprung up since the strike . |
| 30 | She occupied a tiny apartment hidden away beneath Betty 's house , and she had a habit of materializing unexpectedly as if she 'd sprung up through a trapdoor . |