Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching . |
| 2 | ‘ But why should he come down in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 3 | Immediately the men homed in on the dead animal with the single-mindedness of monsoon flies . |
| 4 | It 's nice to have new owners who do n't think we are down among the dead men . ’ |
| 5 | In an uncomfortable silence Nathaniel Sherman and the others gazed down at the dead buffalo cow . |
| 6 | Behind the screen Wycliffe looked down at the dead man : middle or late forties , probably above average height , bony , but with a tendency to corpulence sedentary : the disease of modern man . |
| 7 | Looking down at the dead man Wycliffe felt guilty because he was experiencing a sense of mild elation . |
| 8 | The Liberal Democrat leader , Mr Paddy Ashdown , asked her to reconsider the ‘ shameful example ’ set by her Government 's actions not only in sending the riot police in at the dead of night but in the blanket of secrecy surrounding the appeals tribunals which decided who were refugees . |
| 9 | ‘ If you ask me , that 's going a bit far , ’ said Ozaran as he watched Jinkwa snuggling up to the dead body of the General . |
| 10 | I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to wake up at the dead of night ( 5 a.m. ) to go and paddle a canoe , but I am assured that the challenge is worth it . |
| 11 | If the letter then comes back through the dead letter office , the plaintiff 's solicitor should make his own application to set aside any interlocutory judgment he has signed . |
| 12 | Lilacs out of the dead land , mixing |
| 13 | Even if the awaited rain fell at the poem 's end , it would only lead back to that beginning , ‘ breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land , ’ with all its attendant suffering . |
| 14 | Dominic Wetherby 's right hand was clutching a packet of cheese so tightly that it was impossible to prise it out of the dead grip . |
| 15 | All moisture was drawn out of the dead before they could rot . |
| 16 | After being locked out in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 17 | Of course it was Roger Rabbit who , last year , brought animated feature films back from the dead . |
| 18 | Friends do n't come back from the dead , Leila thought , rampaging through the corridor from the canteen . |
| 19 | In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power . |
| 20 | ON THE morning of Sunday , 18 December , exactly one week after the Great North struck , Pipeline came back from the dead . |
| 21 | He came briefly back from the dead a few minutes later , pulling into a Backdoor tube and getting fried on the reef . |
| 22 | Apparently , Ray pulled the fish back from the dead , anaesthetising it on the bank , trimming back rotted fins and administering an antibiotic injection . |
| 23 | Seaweed and my parents back from the dead and objects come alive and sort of leer at me and sometimes I joyfully feel as if I 'm going to sink to the bottom of the ocean forever , but I wake up and then I do n't know what 's real . |
| 24 | Crash girl back from the dead |
| 25 | In his first reign at Everton , Kendall 's fortunes changed when his side came back from the dead in a Milk Cup tie against Oxford back in 1984 . |
| 26 | The most unlikely moment for Claire to talk about a day when she and her brother went walking across the land of a man who believed he 'd come back from the dead as a fox . |
| 27 | Back from the dead . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 29 | But despite Mr McDonald 's frantic efforts , the kiss of life was not enough to bring him back from the dead . |
| 30 | Several papers report on Goldie the goldfish which was apparently brought back from the dead when its owner gave it the kiss of life and poured whisky down its throat . |