Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benedict rose and came down the table . |
| 2 | Willie rose and clattered down the hallway . |
| 3 | Two white hands rose and put back the hood . |
| 4 | The Japanese shot at anything that moved and carried out the raid with skill and speed ; the Americans were taken by complete surprise . |
| 5 | He bent and scooped up the bike , wheeling it along with them , and Jenna became aware of other eyes besides the dark ones that had looked into her own . |
| 6 | He bent and scooped up the tin with the barrel of the revolver , and held it high . |
| 7 | ’ I 'll be needin' mair shag and all , ’ he bent and picked up the clay stump and peered into the empty bowl sadly . |
| 8 | His face was very close to hers as he bent and picked up the airline ticket from her desk . |
| 9 | He bent and picked up the bag , then eyed her curiously . |
| 10 | Outside , lightning flickered and lit up the glass reception doors . |
| 11 | She stooped and scooped up the little dog on to her lap . |
| 12 | He stooped and picked up the torn halves himself . |
| 13 | He stopped , looked down , then stooped and picked up the letter . |
| 14 | He stooped and picked up the cruel dagger which had nearly split his throat . |
| 15 | She stooped and picked up the post . |
| 16 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 17 | She saw the dawn when it came and pulled up the blind . |
| 18 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 19 | Dexter parked and switched off the engine . |
| 20 | And at last , Rosalba sighed , smilingly , as she dipped and looped and drew out the thread herself , there was the dress for the sorceress . |
| 21 | Apparently they either found me dad down the cellar or he recovered and come up the cellar like , you know . |
| 22 | The track switchbacked and twisted down the escarpment to the valley below . |
| 23 | Many of their posters from the early 1900s through to the 1920s show young women skiing , skating and tobogganing , and women took to the slopes of Grindelwald , St Moritz and those of less fashionable and more affordable resorts , with a zest which matched the mountain air , while their American sisters slid , swooped and glided down the slopes and across the ponds of Vermont or the Rockies . |
| 24 | Helen frowned and pushed back the hair from her forehead , a habit she had when thinking . |
| 25 | But for the British infantryman , overburdened and attacking up the slope , speed was the one thing of which he was incapable . |
| 26 | They stopped near us , then turned and went up the ladder again . |
| 27 | They turned and went up the flight of stairs , a frieze of well-behaved actors . |
| 28 | He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves . |
| 29 | Polly turned and went down the ladder . |
| 30 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |