Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That wo n't give anything away , ’ cajoled Deana , and it was at that moment that an open-topped , low-slung dark red sports car purred to an impatient halt directly in front of the foyer 's big glass doors and the unmistakable silhouette of Tom Russell sprang with athletic grace from behind the wheel and began to stride across the cement footpath towards the entrance . |
| 2 | When he saw Duclos striding back across the compound dragging a young Annamese boy behind him , he smiled quietly to himself , stepped back into his bedroom and began fumbling with the buttons of his silk shirt . |
| 3 | The child passengers gripped the broom while their arms pumped round in a rhythm , as their imaginary train gathered speed and went racing over the land . |
| 4 | ‘ I voted for Al Gore for Vice President and had to vote for the other fellow to get his ( Gore 's ) name , ’ Mr Clinton told a neighbour as reporters listened in . |
| 5 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |
| 6 | The applicant was however satisfied with the result and felt vindicated by the fact that the breach of rule had been acknowledged . |
| 7 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |
| 8 | Once he jumped from a roof and managed to land on the soft top of a passing van . |
| 9 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 10 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 11 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 12 | Material devastation was on a spectacular scale , in addition to episodes such as the tale of 300 babies taken out of hospital incubators and left to die on the ground . |
| 13 | Cricket committee chairman Close did n't even get a vote and threatened to quit as the county plunged towards a new civil war . |
| 14 | The girls , coaxed from the cars and persuaded to sit on the bottom row of the stand , were heaped with the players ' coats and scarves and warned not to fidget . |
| 15 | He was in fact an employee rather than an independent agent and had worked for the defendants for 17 years . |
| 16 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
| 17 | Without a word , Ted climbed out of the car and began pulling at the hedgerow . |
| 18 | He got out of the car and began to walk towards the Embassy . |
| 19 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 20 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |
| 21 | Only after he finished in his world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds did George learn that the tenacious Scot had collapsed sixty yards from the tape and had fallen on the grass . |
| 22 | Practically every device of the movies started as a special effect and became assimilated into the everyday language of film , just like metaphor in language . |
| 23 | He clenched his teeth , pulled back his shoulders and began to stride up the road . |
| 24 | She quickly learned to swim but because of her small size had some initial problems with buoyancy and kept bobbing to the surface like a cork ! |
| 25 | Garry 's shrug spoke volumes , as did the way he turned away from Dana and started to walk across the lawn . |
| 26 | Steve grew up in Seattle and began climbing in the Cascades Range . |
| 27 | In the early 1950s he used his creation to improve the size of the Aberdeen Angus and began to outcross with the red Beevbilde to produce a new breed of black beef cattle which combined Angus quality with the Lincoln 's fast weight gains . |
| 28 | He just rolled neatly over on his side and commenced talking to the Big Man . |
| 29 | Then Mum went over and I gazed on as she replaced the sheet and then rolled Granny onto her side and began feeling under the mattress . |
| 30 | The little left-hander , 142 not out , watched from the non-striker 's end as Bernard Julien played the last ball of the day , bowled by Underwood , defensively on the off side and turned to walk to the pavilion . |