Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadleir felt that he had done enough and wished to return to the coast . |
| 2 | Her mother sat up suddenly and started shouting through the tears . |
| 3 | Luke pushed back his chair impatiently and went to stand at the window , looking down , his back towards her . |
| 4 | Seagram , one of the world 's largest wines and spirits companies , stepped in and agreed to help save the National . |
| 5 | Adam climbed in and went to stand in the prow , eyes fixed once more on the island . |
| 6 | Ulysse and Brutus , both low-ranking males , soon moved in and started eating with the dominant females , who showed no aggression towards them . |
| 7 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 8 | " He smells like barley rained down and left to rot in the fields . |
| 9 | We were both thrown down and began to roll across the deck , but I was on my feet first and climbed up into the sails , hand over hand . |
| 10 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Dexter 's toes suddenly flopped down and stayed glued to the floor . |
| 12 | As he stepped down and turned to kneel before the altar , he directed a swift , appraising glance at the ‘ all ’ . |
| 13 | As soon as they were amongst the shuttered houses of Edinburgh , Corbett slowed down and turned to grin at the pale , terrified face of Ranulf . |
| 14 | They sat down and started to look through the movie tapes , Zambia interjecting the odd question here and there . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ he said aloud and started running down the street , looking for the car . |
| 16 | Presently a hungry bear came along and began to sniff round the frightened horse . |
| 17 | Then he could not bear it any longer and started breaking down the wall . |
| 18 | Jordan later discovered that two of his party had managed to get away and had made for the rendezvous point which the group aiming for Martuba was to use . |
| 19 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 20 | As you looked at her more and more insects swarmed on to her ; then , as the weight grew too much for the insects underneath to cling to her smooth skin , great black cakes of them flaked away and fell fizzing to the ground . |
| 21 | He looked away and began twiddling with the curtain cord . |
| 22 | Lucenzo moved away and began to complain to the catering manager , breaking into the man 's spirited singing of an Italian opera . |
| 23 | As his boss turned away and began to stride down the corridor , Dexter noticed a wary look slither into Pargeter 's eyes . |
| 24 | He pulled away and began to wander towards the stairs . |
| 25 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 26 | When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days . |
| 27 | When she hastily drew away and tried to wriggle off the bed he caught her wrist and pulled her back . |
| 28 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 29 | Blanche rolled away and started to run towards the front door . |
| 30 | ’ He turned away and started trudging through the wet grass in the direction Lesley-Jane had specified . |