Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] trees " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as they continued on through the trees to the fort at Ballingolin , with the blackbirds chittering and the smoke from turf fires coming from the farmhouse inside the castle walls , Gerald Hussey broke the news to his daughter that she would be leaving Ireland . |
| 2 | She walks on through the trees , while he capers at her side , an unlikely jester . |
| 3 | We keep the trees erm they 're on about the trees are mature well my suggestion is there 's a lot of councillors that are very mature and really they could do far better getting eleven spindly new younger councillors to make these decisions on behalf of all the public tax payers in Nottingham . |
| 4 | The light had almost gone from the day now and the forest was becoming bathed in soft , subtle hues of the Purple Hour , Dark blue and turquoise light slanted in through the trees , turning the Wolfwood to a place of dark secret shadows and heavy ancient magic . |
| 5 | Everybody in the house loved to move in the warmth and luxury of it , to look out from the bright room at the rain spilling steadily down between the trees . |
| 6 | In time the first snowflakes fluttered down between the trees . |
| 7 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |
| 8 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 9 | The men immediately set off in one direction , scrambling down through the trees and undergrowth towards the subsidiary valley where the shot had sounded . |
| 10 | The barking was getting closer by the second and we could hear the hunters whistling and shouting orders to the dogs , and the sound of the boar scrunching dried leaves and snapping dead branches as it hurtled down through the trees . |
| 11 | The snow was falling in earnest as we wound our way down through the trees , and the rich colours of the forest — the pine-green and henna-red bracken — were rapidly fading to ashen . |
| 12 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 13 | The hotel lies at the foot of a steep road which leads down through the trees from the main road . |
| 14 | Meg looked down through the trees . |
| 15 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 16 | As the first grey slivers of dawn were filtering down through the trees , Roger Forester climbed stiffly from his hire car and stood on the track beside it , stretching his sore limbs and trying to beat some warmth into himself . |
| 17 | Then , he had become aware of a gout of light pouring down through the trees , and an ache of green against his eyes . |
| 18 | As they rode cautiously along , Fenella caught glimpses of movement in between the trees . |
| 19 | Here and there , they caught sight of a fluid red-gold figure in between the trees and once a huge oak tree seemed to bend forward as if inclining its head to inspect them . |
| 20 | Owen and Georgiades went a little way off and squatted down beneath the trees to wait . |
| 21 | He had seen it plane in behind the trees beyond a bend in the stream and had stalked and shot it while she slept . |
| 22 | Ramapithecus was one of several primates , such as the baboons , which came down from the trees to develop terrestrial living . |
| 23 | But now , with the car hardly parked and before the good reverend could open the door , down from the trees swooped a resplendent male Purple Emperor . |
| 24 | The sound of bird song drifts down from the trees , and butterflies flutter through the still early evening air . |
| 25 | These primates came down from the trees and gradually learned to walk upright . |
| 26 | Bats developed " send/receive " switching technology long long ago , probably millions of years before our ancestors came down from the trees . |
| 27 | Spider monkeys originate from South America and rarely come down from the trees in their wild state . |
| 28 | Stopping on the lonely road , I watched the sun go down in the trees behind Thornfield , and then in the silence I heard a horse approaching . |
| 29 | It was still warm during the day , and the sun came in over the trees of the forest outside the camp . |
| 30 | Look down on the trees , lakes and mountains far below as you soar through the air … . |