Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 2 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 3 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 4 | Without the slightest hesitation , he took two hops to the water , waded in and swam across the deep , still pool . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 8 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 9 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 10 | With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side . |
| 11 | Adam put the phone down and went to the front door . |
| 12 | I knelt down and went through the dead man 's clothing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Dorcas sat down and leaned against the yellow metal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that . |
| 17 | Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping-paper . |
| 18 | Ranulf squatted down and pointed to the small indentation of a boot . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit . |
| 22 | The four youngsters — who went to school together and played in the same soccer team — died instantly . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Together they floated away and played in the clear , blue sky . |
| 27 | With that , he turned away and walked towards the waiting van . |
| 28 | Jim looked away and focused on the solid glass ashtray on the coffee table . |
| 29 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 30 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |