Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Robin Ibbs was loaned from ICI and asked to sort out the civil service . |
| 2 | Easily Accessible : Bosham is where , according to legend , King Cnut tried and failed to turn back the sea and the village is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry . |
| 3 | In the first year of the war Havelock Wilson repeatedly stressed the cooperation which had existed between the German merchant marine and the NSFU , cast doubt on stories of German atrocities and sought to play down the extremes of anti-German hysteria which had broken out . |
| 4 | In the end he had relented , and agreed to take up the career she had chosen for him . |
| 5 | Nirvana Inc battened down the hatches and made to ride out the storm . |
| 6 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 7 | As soon as she stopped struggling and stood motionless he let her go and bent to pick up the shoes she 'd dropped . |
| 8 | He stood up , stretched and bent to pick up the tray . |
| 9 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 10 | It was a task she devoted herself to while Ted with a most ungentlemanly violence of language put the car into reverse and tried to back up the lane . |
| 11 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 12 | A policeman has been jailed for thirty months after he attacked a motorist and tried to cover up the offence . |
| 13 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 14 | She shook her head , and tried to rub out the impossible visions . |
| 15 | He got down on his hands and knees and tried to rub out the muddy footprints . |
| 16 | I sat and stared at the paper in front of me and tried to blank out the present and get back into my story — forward , that is , into my invented future , and out of the world of queries and vague apprehensions . |
| 17 | Then I was taken back home to my mother 's and tried to build up the relationship again . |
| 18 | Long whips of hawthorn arched over and helped to shut out the barely lightening sky . |
| 19 | Then , riding on , he stiffly dismounted , avoiding the kicking of disabled horses , and stooped to pick up the now trampled and muddied Lion Rampant standard of Scotland . |
| 20 | Linda opened the front door for the milk , and stooped to pick up the bottles . |
| 21 | And told to turn up the next morning , waited another four hours , finally a patient who 'd had an operation for a serious gall bladder operation two days before hand was kicked out of his bed and sent home so that she would be put in the bed , given the operation ! |
| 22 | What a lack of self-confidence this implies : the present wants both to patronise the past by adjudicating on its political acceptability , and also to be flattered by it , to be patted on the back and told to keep up the good work . |
| 23 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 24 | The huge man whose belly flowed over his belt and seemed to cascade down the front of his trousers pointed with the cane . |
| 25 | ‘ Bounced out as soon as she heard me call you and came scrabbling up the slope . |
| 26 | As they reached the corner of Woodbine Close , Dudley Ford emerged from his front door and came striding down the garden path with Sinbad snuffling at his heels . |
| 27 | Every Diamond is selected , matched and mounted to bring out the maximum ‘ fire ’ and beauty from each . |
| 28 | In a little while the Wheel would be set alight , released from its cradle and allowed to trundle down the slope , gathering momentum . |
| 29 | ‘ Until this evening , ’ he said huskily , and turned to go back the way they had come . |
| 30 | She sighed , and turned to pick up the clock on the bedside table . |