Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ears ringing , he recovered himself and turned to peer through the reek . |
| 2 | Fiver said nothing and continued to stare over the field . |
| 3 | Steve pulled the duvet over the two of them and began fiddling with the remote control . |
| 4 | He gave her fingers a brief squeeze , then released them and began drumming on the table . |
| 5 | I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor . |
| 6 | For example , while the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the enactment of the United States Constitution in 1787 were illegal under the old legal order , they were validated by , and received their legitimacy and authority from , the People of the United States , who accepted them and agreed to abide by the new constitution . |
| 7 | They let us off after our three Santa Clausesses mobbed them and asked to play with the red furry pandas they had clipped to the aerials of their radios , on condition we played ‘ Saints ’ until out of sight . |
| 8 | Polish television reported on April 20 that the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action Party ( ROAD ) , established in July 1990 by Solidarity supporters [ see pp. 37620-21 ] , had dissolved itself and had re-formed as the Democratic-Social Movement . |
| 9 | He himself ate nothing but stood beaming in the middle of the room , his whisky glass clutched in his hand . |
| 10 | This morning she had fought a battle with herself and had left off the concealing shirt . |
| 11 | So Vasilissa crossed herself and went trembling among the trees . |
| 12 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 13 | A young blonde woman who had tripped against a Sellsword was shoved by him and sent flying across the roadway . |
| 14 | Cleveland Coroner Michael Sheffield said Mr Owens may have been startled by a car swerving to avoid him and had stepped into the path of the van . |
| 15 | Glancing over his shoulder with a huge wink , Oz banged the door after him and went whooping across the yard . |
| 16 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
| 17 | But when her heart actually did a little flutter to see that mouth , which she had always liked — despite its owner — turning up in laughter , she half turned from him and started to walk towards the rear entrance of the building . |
| 18 | He turned away from her and began to walk in the direction of the house , and after a moment 's hesitation she followed . |
| 19 | He raised his right hand to silence her and continued to stare at the tabletop before him , head cocked to one side . |
| 20 | Luke dropped his grip on her and turned to glance at the door , as if he intended to go and put his question to the man himself . |
| 21 | Only when his struggling became more violent did she fall from him , and then with frantic hands he untangled himself from her and rose to crouch against the wall , his eyes closed , his breath rasping in his throat . |
| 22 | Very slowly and deliberately Isambard slipped his feet clear of the stirrups and leaned forward as if to swing himself out of the saddle , but in the act he jabbed home hard into the beast 's side with his right spur , and drove him not forward , but flinching sidelong into the bushes in a wild leap ; and leaning both hands on the pommel of his saddle he vaulted out of it and dropped crashing into the bushes almost on top of Owen . |
| 23 | He brushed past it and ran stooping round the corner of the L where the only light was fixed high up on a wall . |
| 24 | As Morton produced the manila folder from his pocket , Sir Rufus seized it and began leafing through the papers it contained . |
| 25 | He lifted her bag out but , instead of handing it to her , he kept a firm grip on it and began to walk towards the house . |
| 26 | He drew level with Marius and myself and started shouting about the English and how they were always the first to desert ; how he , Corporal Auriega , with four years ' Legion service , who had endured shelling in Beirut and the heat and flies of Chad , had finally had enough . |
| 27 | She closed her eyes to hide her revulsion as he pressed his open mouth against hers and began fumbling with the buttons of her bush shirt . |