Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the big " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pushed back her hair , as bright as copper in the sunshine that slanted through the big bay window . |
| 2 | Not since Lady Di qualified for the Big Match has the fashion world been as tremulous about the chosen design . |
| 3 | All saw the shudder that rippled through the big man like a wave ; the way his chin jutted forward and his face contorted in agony as he steeled himself to strike . |
| 4 | The footbridge section was narrow , but only a couple of feet to his left — within touching distance , in fact — was the steel mesh side of the railway bridge where monsters went battering across , drowning out conversation as their lights flickered through the big crossed support girders . |
| 5 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |
| 6 | Not the one we took off ya , the one ya used on the big guy ? ’ |
| 7 | We disposed of the big fish first , not even so without difficulty ; for while some , like Ceylon and Jamaica , were islands , which was a good enough demarcation for rough and ready purposes , others , like the Indians or Nigerians , were not so unmistakable and quarrelled violently over who they were . |
| 8 | They drove past the big Siemens factory , plastered with huge portraits of Marx and Lenin , on to the broad , tree-lined avenue of Am Treptower Park , swung into a car-park , and stopped . |
| 9 | The spray-painting on the wall came with the big double M in. ‘ 87 — Meltdown in the Market , which started on Wall Street — but some of the bigger houses and the banks were already letting people go . ’ |
| 10 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 11 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 12 | We ate in the big kitchen . |
| 13 | Of the 17 trainees who won prizes or a place in the order of merit in November 's PE1s , all but three came from the Big Six , and the others came from BDO Binder Hamlyn and Stoy Hayward . |
| 14 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 15 | The only light came from the big fire . |
| 16 | They came from the big houses down the loch or over the pass towards Loch Lomond , or the castle at Inverary , from miles and miles , little girls in furred and caped coats and dresses gathered into heavy bows behind the cascades of ringlets . |
| 17 | Sure , there were specialist writers on individual sports who were of unimpeachable quality , but when it came to the Big Event , or the Big Interview , McIlvanney was the one whom we read with both pleasure and despair — emotions generated by the pride at being in the same trade as the main , and by the realization of his supremacy . |
| 18 | We felt sure she 'd be preyed on when she came to the big city . ’ |
| 19 | He did n't say anything , just nodded towards the big enamel sink which had a single cold water tap and a rickety hot water geyser above it . |
| 20 | In a minute , they climbed into the big bed , Jessica having discarded her blue shirt , and cuddled to each other . |
| 21 | She turned into the big car park . |
| 22 | What happened in the big chair ? |
| 23 | To the question ‘ What happened before the Big Bang ? ’ the professor answers : ‘ There was no ‘ before ’ . |
| 24 | Paul Newman , older , of course , and Steve McQueen arrived in the big time , too . |
| 25 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 26 | Then he turned to the big original of the man Maxim remembered from the Abbey . |
| 27 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 28 | That to me was one of the most rewarding moments over and above when we got into the big game against New Zealand . |
| 29 | Alone in her bedroom , she undressed and got into the big empty bed . |
| 30 | She agreed with the big , ugly Dalek Killer . |