Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I 've noticed , ’ said Meredith , and he pushed past him impatiently and ran down the grand staircase in search of Bunny . |
| 2 | In Shepherd 's Bush , where he grew up , he and his family suffered an incident in which the police , who had surrounded the house in order to arrest Christie 's brother ( on a charge which never came to court ) then burst in and carried out the violent , unprovoked arrest of Christie and his father . |
| 3 | The other thing is my contribution to the new album is limited , Jake had most of the songs finished before I arrived and all I did was go in and lay down the bass tracks . |
| 4 | Mihal beat away the burning logs with his club while Martin rushed in and picked up the old man . |
| 5 | Some children broke in and trampled down the surviving patch of ramsons . |
| 6 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |
| 7 | He went down and picked up the dangling receiver . |
| 8 | I reached down and picked up the empty wine bottle and smashed it to the floor . |
| 9 | She went downstairs and brought up the only sweets she had in the house ; a box of liqueur chocolates . |
| 10 | Impetus and the driving weight told , and the wedge , only a little misshapen now , crashed through and bore down the few extra yards upon the waiting English . |
| 11 | However , Ell moved quickly over and picked up the raw meat . |
| 12 | Smoothing down her skirt as she seated herself , she reached over and started up the secondary computer . |
| 13 | Only 16·5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 14 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 15 | He lifted one knee from the ground and turned his head slowly and looked up the slight incline to the path , and in his sun-blinded vision he saw a shape . |
| 16 | GERMANY caved in yesterday and shot down the controversial party to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the V2 rocket . |
| 17 | Well , we did n't have much luck out in the open because the rabbits saw or heard or smelt us coming a mile off and bolted down the nearest hole , even though we were mute and trying to stay down wind ( the wind kept switching direction in little gusts ) . |
| 18 | A few minutes later Nathan jumped down into the cockpit once more and hauled out the roller-reefed headsail . |
| 19 | Without a moment 's delay Aunt Tossie got up and sailed down the long room , the ends of her boa floating out behind her , careless majesty in her gait . |
| 20 | ‘ The delivery room was up two flights of stairs , so Tony picked me up and ran up the two flights with me . |
| 21 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 22 | Lacking axes or crampons we 'd kicked steps up the snowy approach gully the afternoon before and checked out the devious ladders and chains forming the descent from the summit . |
| 23 | Benjamin went across and pulled back the dead man 's head . |
| 24 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 25 | He pushed the book across and pointed out the swirling fronds of ‘ Seaweed ’ and the stiffly formal ‘ Sweet Pea ’ , while Iris looked on , nodding and chipping in with observations from time to time . |
| 26 | Or you might decide you 're going to put two there , two there , two there and spread out the ten . |
| 27 | They were shown into cubicles with inadequate curtains , where they were told to strip completely and put on the clean towelling gowns in there . |
| 28 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 29 | Guillamon leaned forward and pulled down the lower lid of his eye . |
| 30 | Jill darted forward and picked up the crushed envelope . |