Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 2 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 3 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 5 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |
| 6 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 7 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 8 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 9 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 10 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 11 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 12 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 13 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 14 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 15 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 16 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 17 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 18 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 19 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 20 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 21 | She grew bored , and gazed out of the window , at the fading winter light and the fluttering descent of the snow . |
| 22 | Iris yawned , put her hands behind her head and gazed out of the window . |
| 23 | With a hesitant smile she turned away from him , and sipped what was left of her champagne and gazed out of the window . |
| 24 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 25 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 26 | Cornelius drew the curtains and gazed out upon the day . |
| 27 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 28 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 29 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 30 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |