Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 2 | Productive activity was carried out by peasants , who lived on and cultivated the land which was controlled by the feudal lords . |
| 3 | He hopped in and unzipped the rucksack , taking out only the scope which he pointed back towards the lakeside . |
| 4 | After dark the men of the SAS crept in and obtained the necessary tentage and equipment to set themselves up , including even a piano for the officers ' mess . |
| 5 | Charles got in and slammed the door . |
| 6 | He got in and pressed the button for the first floor . |
| 7 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
| 8 | She got in and held the door-open button . |
| 9 | Then he straightened suddenly and returned the paperweight to its place on his desk . |
| 10 | I hauled back the wheel and the plane mushed down and hit the water . |
| 11 | ‘ The idea was developed by four brewers who got together and devised the system for brewing beer in a container ’ says Smillie . |
| 12 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 13 | A number of them , including Matthew Robert Burns , q.v. , and Walter Geikie q.v. , got together and established the Congregational Church for the Deaf and Dumb , Edinburgh , in June 1830 . |
| 14 | In 1879 Pearce , the Owen cousins , and the Rev. Samuel Smith of St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London got together and established the Winchester Diocesan Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission . |
| 15 | Then they moved on and repeated the whole performance 's two streets away . |
| 16 | But the road that ran from the town , called Théovard , by-passed Les Glycines five hundred yards to the north , and we dismounted rather than run the motor cycle over the pitted lane . |
| 17 | Leila Williams ( a former beauty queen ) and Chris Trace were its virgin presenters , the show a seven-week experiment that caught on and gave the world John Noakes ' arse , the most famous shitting elephant ever , many an expedition to Ceylon , sticky-backed plastic , ‘ soldier dolls ’ , umpteen dogs , Sarah Greene ( cheers ) and a hell of a lot of jeeps paid for by old forks and ring-pulls . |
| 18 | In books , pamphlets and speeches women drew on and re-worked the languages of purity , religion , medicine and even mysticism to develop a critical feminist discourse . |
| 19 | But when he knelt down and tested the earth with his hands , some of the tracks seemed fresh . |
| 20 | The friar knelt down and tickled the cat between his ears . |
| 21 | At one point he knelt down and parted the heather with his hands , so sure was he that he had found it , but there was nothing but the scree and the tiny plants which grew amongst it . |
| 22 | Eventually they died and sank down and joined the compost at the base of the leaves which , in fact , helped nourish the plant . |
| 23 | They excelled in and developed the arts of building , of engineering and of town planning . |
| 24 | ‘ Devil ! ’ he said and dismounted so as to approach the thicket more closely . |
| 25 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 26 | The lad bent down and seized the foot but Beamish broke in . |
| 27 | Rosten bent down and wiped the sword on the back of Wolfe 's tunic , then straightened , facing Gosse . |
| 28 | Just in case , I bent down and told the joint-smoking Santa to get rid of it . |
| 29 | The T'ang turned , then bent down and retrieved the book , finding himself strangely reassured by its familiarity . |
| 30 | When he reached the store he bent down and fondled the Labrador 's ears , his face softening . |