Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 2 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 3 | The landlord then relented in part and gave her back the keys to the bedsit . |
| 4 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 5 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 6 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
| 7 | Ian shook himself free from his bunk , pulled on his flannels and swung himself up the companionway and on to the deck . |
| 8 | The second policeman managed to get a shot off in panic , but before he could take aim properly , one of the skinheads smashed his shoulder with a baseball bat and knocked him down the aisle steps . |
| 9 | I stole the father and gave Him back the son ! ’ |
| 10 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 11 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 12 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 13 | He picked up my suitcase and carried it up the last flight , putting it down outside my door and turning to me . |
| 14 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 15 | She turned , wrenched open the door and hurled herself down the spiral staircase , pushing blindly through the group below , tears streaming down her face . |
| 16 | Relieved , we leapt out of our sinking craft and dragged it up the beach to the waiting clothes- stand in the sand . |
| 17 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 18 | In May of last year the organisers signed 30 bands and hired a 100 seat ship and floated it down the Volga River , the largest in European Russia , holding 10 open-air concerts in big cities along the way . |
| 19 | I lent him my air rifle and aimed it out the window and there was this car going by and he went and he smashed the back windscreen I was saying , You fucking dick . |
| 20 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 21 | The headlights of another car swung across the central reservation and followed him down the Friedrich Engels Strasse . |