Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 2 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 3 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 4 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 5 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 6 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 7 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 8 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 9 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 10 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ I agreed quickly without the faintest idea of what I was agreeing to . |
| 12 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 13 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 14 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 15 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 16 | After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London . |
| 17 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 18 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 19 | So I got together with the main designer at Ibanez in Japan and we traded ideas , and the new prototype — I 've got one already and I 'm picking another one up in a month — is very unusual , and I think a really exciting development for a jazz guitar . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 21 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 22 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 23 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 24 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 25 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 26 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 27 | The water , blue and green glass , was for a moment cold , then deliciously cool ; I swam out between the steep rocks to the open sea . |
| 28 | I was surprised when I found out about the interim order , but I assumed that was only a convenience measure , because you 're resident in Scotland and I 'm not . |
| 29 | ‘ Quite early on I found out about the Active Birth Centre . |
| 30 | Rain said : ‘ I found out during the last few days . |