Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [vb past] [adv] 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 | Dot looked down and saw only the tussocky grass and a flat square stone . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With a groan that seemed to come from the bottom of the earth , Luke reached down and tore away the lacy silk that covered her . |
| 9 | He went down and picked up the dangling receiver . |
| 10 | I reached down and picked up the empty wine bottle and smashed it to the floor . |
| 11 | She went downstairs and brought up the only sweets she had in the house ; a box of liqueur chocolates . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , Ell moved quickly over and picked up the raw meat . |
| 14 | Smoothing down her skirt as she seated herself , she reached over and started up the secondary computer . |
| 15 | Awkwardly and delicately , as if her own arms and hands were unfamiliar tools , she gathered flowerpots on a cleared area of ledge , took a bucket outside and poured away the green standing slime . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | GERMANY caved in yesterday and shot down the controversial party to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the V2 rocket . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | A few minutes later Nathan jumped down into the cockpit once more and hauled out the roller-reefed headsail . |
| 22 | He went even further and discussed how the general layout of the houses could deter crime . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ The delivery room was up two flights of stairs , so Tony picked me up and ran up the two flights with me . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Thereafter Heybridge fought well throughout and had far the better of the play . |
| 27 | On hearing George Marsh shout , then scream , those in the box looked out and saw momentarily the terrifying apparition seconds before it disappeared . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | until she got onto that crossbar and then she just flew straight back and did exactly the same thing all over again and I just thought sod it ! |
| 30 | On the morning of 12 August Baldwin , who had got to Angers in the Loire , was summoned back and arrived early the following day . |