Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seagram , one of the world 's largest wines and spirits companies , stepped in and agreed to help save the National . |
| 2 | Adam climbed in and went to stand in the prow , eyes fixed once more on the island . |
| 3 | Ulysse and Brutus , both low-ranking males , soon moved in and started eating with the dominant females , who showed no aggression towards them . |
| 4 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 5 | " He smells like barley rained down and left to rot in the fields . |
| 6 | We were both thrown down and began to roll across the deck , but I was on my feet first and climbed up into the sails , hand over hand . |
| 7 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Dexter 's toes suddenly flopped down and stayed glued to the floor . |
| 9 | As he stepped down and turned to kneel before the altar , he directed a swift , appraising glance at the ‘ all ’ . |
| 10 | As soon as they were amongst the shuttered houses of Edinburgh , Corbett slowed down and turned to grin at the pale , terrified face of Ranulf . |
| 11 | They sat down and started to look through the movie tapes , Zambia interjecting the odd question here and there . |
| 12 | Presently a hungry bear came along and began to sniff round the frightened horse . |
| 13 | He lay on his side , holding the covers over him by their edges , gazing at some of his copies of Vogue , which Tessa had been looking through and left lying on the carpet in front of the fire , where they glowed pink and red . |
| 14 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 15 | It really put a damper on the whole house and straight away cheered us up and got rid of the edginess we were all feeling . |
| 16 | Other guests now rose to leave and the two English envoys got up and began to move amongst the different groups . |
| 17 | He stood up and began prowling around the room , touching objects , focusing his attention on anything but her . |
| 18 | When , immediately afterwards , he jumped up and began to rush round the room in a strange wild dance , we all stared at him in great surprise . |
| 19 | She got up and began walking round the kitchen , collecting a dirty cup here , a saucer there , putting them in the sink . |
| 20 | Claire stood up and began walking around the room , idly picking up one of the many calculators lying around , her hand trailing over the volumes of books on the shelves . |
| 21 | He stood up and began to run along the deck . |
| 22 | And she got up and began to run across the room to her mother . |
| 23 | He got up and went to stand by the tall , ornate fireplace where a fire had now been lit for the cooler evening to come . |
| 24 | Instead she got up and went to look at the Labrador . |
| 25 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
| 26 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 27 | He stood up and seemed to roll on the balls of his feet . |
| 28 | Grimma propped it up and tried to concentrate above the noise . |
| 29 | He got up and started to walk around the room . |
| 30 | They can be planted out or left to grow in the pot , but will soon need re-potting . |