Example sentences of "[noun] bend [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Holmes bent over the body and began to move it . |
| 2 | The street is too narrow to take in the full glory of the design by Fischer von Erlach but the two doorways immediately make an impact , with their wonderful straining Hercules bent under the weight of the door entablature . |
| 3 | Ma bent over the stove . |
| 4 | Kathleen bent over the unconscious patient and sniffed . |
| 5 | Mairi was still shrieking and striking at Luch while Master Beaton bent over the bed . |
| 6 | Hawkins bent over the slave and examined the padlock . |
| 7 | Lying down , with knees bent towards the chest , raise the elbows , head and shoulders towards the knees and hold up for 5 counts . |
| 8 | Her mother 's hair was now completely white , her shoulders bent under the load of time , her face deeply etched by years of trial … . |
| 9 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 10 | A servant arrived with some freshly made jus de citron and for the next half-hour the three of them remained with heads bent over the materials which would do so much to enhance Félix 's English collection . |
| 11 | The trees over Three Island Pond bent to the left with its force , and Creggan saw from the shadows that such ducks as were visible were taking shelter on the lee of the islands , bunching together for warmth and sinking their necks and heads as far as they could into their breast feathers . |
| 12 | The twigs bent under the pressure , then splintered with a tearing crack . |
| 13 | Fig 101 The wind bends at the shoreline in an offshore breeze and tries to cross it at 90 degrees . |
| 14 | Burgeoning nature symbolises the creative process : in ‘ Out of Egypt ’ , for instance , branches bending towards the ground create an almost complete circle of growth and nurture . |
| 15 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 16 | This is a metal bar bent into the shape of a triangle and struck with a metal beater . |
| 17 | The highway bent to the left , while a smaller track went off to the right . |
| 18 | If parents and nurses would only realise how much easier it is for the child to bend to the social and moral laws in later life , when trained from infancy , how much sorrow might be saved . |
| 19 | Then the corridor bent to the side to accommodate four enclosed double bedrooms and bent back again through the centre of open seating with sleeping curtains , called sections . |
| 20 | Daniel glanced at Anna , upright on her ugly dark chair , her gaze bent on the carpet . |
| 21 | He was leaning on his spear by a pool , a green cloak drifting round him , a silver helmet on his head , his gaze bent on the dark ring of water . |
| 22 | He turned and saw Tock bent over the handle . |
| 23 | Obviously leaves fall and plants bend in the replica material , and live foliage may need replacing . |
| 24 | Holly bent to the floor , picked up the knife , admired the workmanship of the weapon , reversed it so that the string whipped handle was towards the man , passed it back to him . |
| 25 | The weight is on the left leg , the loose right bent at the knee , so the plane of the hips is not horizontal . |
| 26 | Each of the Moi carried a long-bladed machete which had been dubbed a coupe-code in Annam , and taking one from the nearest tribesman , the Senator bent over the dead buffalo . |
| 27 | It 's certainly possible to do a fair modicum of string bending on the Moon without suffering from the usual de-tuning syndrome which afflicts most floating trems . |
| 28 | I remember a case where an architect designer , without excuse bent over the shoulder of his employee , a brilliant 22-year-old designer , and put his name unashamedly to the novel ideas and design of the young man , claiming them for his own . |
| 29 | AS Stephen Hendry bent over the table to line up another shot there was more than victory at stake — he was literally taking his life in his hands . |
| 30 | Philip bent over the boy , looking down at him . |