Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rose suddenly and brushed back the tears , crying would get her nowhere . |
| 2 | I dictate and Cats scribbles away and bashes out the replies on the word processor kindly loaned to us by the theatre . |
| 3 | It 's difficult to get at the timbers once you 've insulated , so get the job done properly and carry out the treatment before insulating the loft . |
| 4 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
| 5 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 6 | Jill darted forward and picked up the crushed envelope . |
| 7 | I trudged upstairs and picked up the tin and the opener . |
| 8 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 9 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 10 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 11 | As Henry turned away and walked down the room Reginald bellowed with laughter ; and when his brother reached the door he shouted , ‘ Happy Christmas ! |
| 12 | Corbett turned away and picked up the goblet , tasting the full red flavour of Bordeaux . |
| 13 | A second explosion , and vast shards of the cliff lazily peeled away and tumbled down the slope . |
| 14 | Reluctant to brave the corridor again in case the conspirators emerged and caught her , she turned sharply and fled up the tower stairs , just one thought uppermost in her mind . |
| 15 | The other man nodded silently and tapped out the signal on a key-board built into his desk . |
| 16 | She yawned sleepily and slipped down the bank to the water 's edge to wash her face with her paws . |
| 17 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 18 | Caroline swung away and stared out the windscreen . |
| 19 | Tilting the head back , aiming accurately and pulling down the lower lid were other areas of difficulty . |
| 20 | Modern historians are quite uncertain whether an individual of that name existed here and carried out the exploits attributed to him ; or whether he is a representative figure around whom have accreted the age-old memories of a people 's struggles to maintain inherited liberties in the face of alien subjection . |
| 21 | Bernice stepped forward and picked up the hat . |
| 22 | I stepped forward and switched on the light in the kitchen . |
| 23 | Tiny Bennion grinned again and pointed up the wharf towards the dock office . |
| 24 | Was there a wind to swing the great plantation bell which he had brought home and hung on the oak beside the east gate ? |
| 25 | ( 8 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any person contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 26 | ( 8 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any person contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 27 | ( 7 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any licence-holder contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 28 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 29 | Go down , catch the swing and go up on the lift , go left and collect the shield , go right and up when you reach the right-hand wall , go left and fly up the pipe , go right and fall down the gap , then go left and collect the weight and throw it onto the button to your right , go up on the lift , right , up and left on the lift , fly up past the spikes and collect a weight , fall down and go right under the spikes , throw the weight on the button , go up on the lift , up , go left when you can and fall down to collect the weight . |
| 30 | Push the crate left onto the button , stand on the conveyor belt , duck and go left , jump up two platforms and crawl right , through the wall , collect the speaker , go back out of the cave and jump up , go right at the top and fall down the hole , go right and jump over the crate and push it left onto the button , go up on the lift , then right , jump onto the crate on the top platform and push it right , then left onto the button . |