Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | This provides medical , laboratory , and nursing back up for the village outreach programme and deals with health problems of local townspeople . |
2 | Then he kicked his horse forward and led on out of the yard . |
3 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
4 | It slipped into the water , disappeared beneath the surface and , fifteen seconds later , bobbed up again and hopped back on to the rock . |
5 | The dog immediately began to bark , and made off out of the room . |
6 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
7 | One Saturday morning , without telling anyone of my plan , I boarded a bus and headed off out of the Lesotho capital of Maseru and towards Roma where I knew a witchdoctor lived . |
8 | They completed a circular walk through the woods , tramping through leaves and bracken and ending up back at the minibus where Sybil announced it was time to go back to Conway House for lunch . |
9 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
10 | The famous chandelier , with its thousand lights , broke away from its ropes and crashed down on to the people below . |
11 | I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold . |
12 | Henry went to the front hall , put the chicken and the jack on the table by the front door and trudged back out to the Passat . |
13 | And with that she reversed the van , turned it round and drove back on to the road . |
14 | The car reels and swerves up on to the pavement , crashing into a shopfront and shattering itself and the window panes . |
15 | The General rose from behind his enormous mahogany desk , without visibly gaining in stature , and came out on to the veranda to see us off . |
16 | He was holding a light in his hand and looking out on to the moor . |
17 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |
18 | We reached the edge of the cliff and flopped down on to the soft turf . |
19 | He kicked his holdall out of the way and flopped down on to the sofa , quite exhausted by whatever he had been up to since the day he left . |
20 | Many of the drop-outs eventually left their flowers , cut their hair and dropped back in to the ‘ rat race ’ of business , commerce and industry . |
21 | You do n't imagine we can simply walk out of here , do you ? — win or lose , up stakes and toddle off back to the world of boiled cabbage and beds with sheets ? |
22 | Well that 's just what it looks like here you just eating al fresco and going back up to the chateau at a night |
23 | He quickly stubbed out the cigarette , replaced his head and raced back up into the daylight to entertain the kids . |
24 | The chlorine is picked up as aerosols droplets containing salt for example from breaking waves taken up by the atmosphere , carried over the land , rained down again , gets into the rivers and ends up back in the sea . |
25 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
26 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
27 | There he pulled off his white turban and let his long black hair coil over his shoulder and drop down on to the ground . |
28 | When she came out leading Violet by the bridle , she went over to the mounting block and climbed up on to the horse . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Wu Tsai shrugged , and climbed up on to the bank . |