Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without the slightest hesitation , he took two hops to the water , waded in and swam across the deep , still pool . |
| 2 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 3 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 4 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 5 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 6 | Adam put the phone down and went to the front door . |
| 7 | I knelt down and went through the dead man 's clothing . |
| 8 | Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully . |
| 9 | Dorcas sat down and leaned against the yellow metal . |
| 10 | The disclosure of these plans forced a premature announcement that two plants — Cowley South and Llanelli Pressings — were to be run down and closed in the early 1990s with the loss of about 3,400 jobs . |
| 11 | Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping-paper . |
| 12 | Ranulf squatted down and pointed to the small indentation of a boot . |
| 13 | He rolled over , and spread his loosened limbs in the bed , he opened windows , he went to the Tate Gallery alone and looked at the dissolving blue and gold air of Turner 's Norham Castle . |
| 14 | and the warden was there in her dressing gown trying to get her up and she could n't get her up this morning , so she had to get help , one of the workmen came along and helped from the top terrible to say though it is , yeah , never mind , they get over it |
| 15 | He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit . |
| 16 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 17 | Then the Annamite woman began to sob and he relented at last and raised himself from her ; still moaning quietly to herself she scrambled from the cot onto the dirt floor , gathered her scraps of clothing together and fled past the American woman into the rain . |
| 18 | In effect it was a return to the conditions of mid-Silurian times , with a corresponding decrease in provincialism , but it lasted longer and led to the fantastic flowering of the Frasnian reefs . |
| 19 | Together they floated away and played in the clear , blue sky . |
| 20 | With that , he turned away and walked towards the waiting van . |
| 21 | Jim looked away and focused on the solid glass ashtray on the coffee table . |
| 22 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 23 | A group of , let's say larger , teenagers manoeuvred themselves through and fell onto the hard , plastic seats on the right-side of the café . |
| 24 | It was one of those old-established inns tucked away into the side-streets of London that have somehow avoided being bought over and sanitized by the big chains , an ivy-covered twenty-room place with panelling and bay-windows and a fire blazing in the brick hearth of a reception area furnished in rugs over uneven boards . |
| 25 | She turned over and looked at the illuminated dial of her alarm clock . |
| 26 | He walked over and rattled at the locked door . |
| 27 | Athelstan went over and knelt beneath the small , horn-glazed window , crossed himself and gently mouthed the words of David 's psalm . |
| 28 | Ann was n't sure whether to ask Amyas in or not , so she left him standing outside and hurried into the large parlour , where Harry was experimenting with tobacco . |
| 29 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |
| 30 | But the float careered on and crashed into the 58-year-old tax official , breaking his leg . |