Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [coord] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they ran out of the saloon and up the backstairs as quickly as they could , to resume their game in the safety of the nursery . |
| 2 | Flames melted a lead pipe and ignited leaking gas causing the fire to spread along the passageway and up the stairwell to the second floor . |
| 3 | They walked back through the kitchen and down the hallway to the front entrance of the house . |
| 4 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 5 | The Doctor and Ace pounded breathlessly through the grotto and down the tunnel after Mait . |
| 6 | We stayed first with Gary and Kaye ( Burns ) , who live near the top of Seatoun Heights with a stupendous view down the harbour and up the Hutt Valley . |
| 7 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 8 | The audience flowed in behind as Argyll and his tall , rawboned wife dragged Elizabeth , screaming , swearing , fighting every step , out of the hall and up the stair to the empty guest room next to his own . |
| 9 | It would have a job flattening that boisterous family , thought Joe as he carried the young woman through the passage and up the flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 10 | Pulling the cover up over her mother 's shoulders , Maura crept from the room and down the stain . |
| 11 | She opened the window , climbed out of the room and down the ivy on the wall . |
| 12 | She went along the landing and down the staircase , still in a waking dream , crossing the hall and seeing Penman there , waiting to open the drawing-room door for her , as if it was someone she was watching perform , not herself but another being altogether . |
| 13 | The ‘ chute is then pulled into a sausage , with that extra line from the release pin passing through the vent and down the parachute , leaving a few inches of line to spare . |
| 14 | At the very least I had expected him to be physically frail and mentally chastened ; a boy worn out by his long addiction and frightened of the criminal charges that hung over him , but instead he came out of the limo and down the dock with the frisky energy of a puppy . |
| 15 | They went through Mill Hill Circus just a hundred yards behind the bleeper and up the slope to Five Ways Corner . |
| 16 | The stone amplifies this and the energy emerges from the ground and up the stone in the form of a spiral having seven coils . |
| 17 | ‘ And he 'd go away and chuck it in the bin or down the sink and come back with a new one . |
| 18 | We need buckets and buckets of water for washing and cooking and putting in the vodka and down the lav . ’ |
| 19 | A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring . |
| 20 | Crouched low to the ground , Zambia fled across the yard and down the alley at the back . |
| 21 | We all left , going through the kitchen , out across the courtyard and down the trackway to the church . |
| 22 | If she strode out she would just about do it ; her office was only across the road and down the side-street . |
| 23 | AT one o'clock in the morning a petrol bomb shattered the window in Kathy Sellers ' front room , shooting flames across the floor and up the curtains . |
| 24 | Those that do come are small pallid workers , inching their way in long columns across the floor and down the shafts to collect the moist mud that is needed for further building work . |
| 25 | The captain nodded his agreement , turned , ran to the back of the church and up the stone stairs to the safety of the tower . |
| 26 | Out of the room and into the hallway , along the hallway and up to the door , out of the door and down the driveway … |
| 27 | With Fiver beside him , he led the way out of the ditch and down the slope . |
| 28 | If a character does fall , a second successful I test is required ( Acrobatics +10 , Scale Sheer Surface +10 ) to avoid sliding off the path and down the scree-slope , taking D3 S 1 hits in the process and coming to rest 2D10 yards away . |
| 29 | The two shook hands and after another quick look on deck , Yanto sprinted around the wheelhouse and down the ladders into the hold to join Billy ‘ That 's two quid you owe me Bill , ’ he grunted . |
| 30 | I scrambled back down the ratlines , rushed to the cockpit and down the companionway hatch . |