Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 2 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 3 | The seminar is being organised by WACC 's North American regional association and hosted by The United Church of Canada under the theme ‘ Legacy : 500 Years of Evangelization in the Americas ’ . |
| 4 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 5 | I gave up being a bird watcher and succumbed to the delicious trippery feel of sun on my back and sand on my front . |
| 6 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 7 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 8 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
| 9 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 10 | It gathered speed and raced towards the built-up complexes . |
| 11 | As they rounded the bend towards Westminster , Ranulf nudged Corbett and pointed to the near bank . |
| 12 | She bought six first-class stamps , took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth . |
| 13 | He stepped down from the terrace and walked against the driving rain towards the footings . |
| 14 | The Movement put up municipal candidates and worked with the Communist Party and the ILP for the " immediate demands " of the unemployed . |
| 15 | Sqd Ldr Jimmy Malley had a distinguished career with bomber command and flew in the legendary Wellington F for Freddie , featured in the film Target For Tonight . |
| 16 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 17 | He screwed up his eyes and stared into the middle distance . |
| 18 | He narrowed his eyes and stared at the distant wall of the Tower . |
| 19 | He just shut his eyes and hoped for the best . |
| 20 | They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’ |
| 21 | In the Wheelhouse of RCTV Audemer , Corporal Fisher rubbed his tired eyes and looked along the thirty-three-metre length of the RCL and its now empty cargo deck , capable of carrying up to ninety-six tonnes of vehicles or freight . |
| 22 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 23 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 24 | With a brief smile in the other woman 's direction , she fled , taking refuge in the consulting-room , where she closed her eyes and leaned against the closed door , breathing hard . |
| 25 | She shut her eyes and concentrated on the four last things listed by the catechism : death , judgment , heaven and hell . |
| 26 | They were already in sight when Thorfinn with Tuathal behind him rounded Moncrieffe Hill and dashed into the flat plain of Rhind , where the Earn joined the Tay . |
| 27 | He was also a member of the XL Club and played for the local Lloyds Bank XI . |
| 28 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 29 | The dollar crisis and the abandonment of the Gold Standard signalled the beginning of the end of the dollar bloc and led to the inevitable American withdrawal from Vietnam . |
| 30 | With Romy he 'd had a real romance but it had flourished only on the Continent and withered in the cold climate of England . |