Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 2 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 3 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 4 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
| 5 | The Movement put up municipal candidates and worked with the Communist Party and the ILP for the " immediate demands " of the unemployed . |
| 6 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 7 | He screwed up his eyes and stared into the middle distance . |
| 8 | He narrowed his eyes and stared at the distant wall of the Tower . |
| 9 | He just shut his eyes and hoped for the best . |
| 10 | They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’ |
| 11 | In the Wheelhouse of RCTV Audemer , Corporal Fisher rubbed his tired eyes and looked along the thirty-three-metre length of the RCL and its now empty cargo deck , capable of carrying up to ninety-six tonnes of vehicles or freight . |
| 12 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 13 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 14 | With a brief smile in the other woman 's direction , she fled , taking refuge in the consulting-room , where she closed her eyes and leaned against the closed door , breathing hard . |
| 15 | She shut her eyes and concentrated on the four last things listed by the catechism : death , judgment , heaven and hell . |
| 16 | Waves crashed over their heads and burst through the open saloon door . |
| 17 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 18 | At first she hovered in the farmyard , then she wandered over to the stables and sat on the outside steps up to Louis 's workroom . |
| 19 | They met Colebrooke in the passageway outside , thanked him for his attentions and went down the outside steps into the Tower bailey . |
| 20 | They then analysed over 800 one-month spreads for 62 months and came to the following conclusions : |
| 21 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 22 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 23 | Gabriel leapt from the stage to the stone steps and slipped into the dark slit of shade where the loft door stood ajar . |
| 24 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |
| 25 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 26 | That done , the wee dandy , roofed by a wig of blazing defiance , hooked thumbs into his waistcoat pockets and sauntered for the bar-top city heights . |
| 27 | He swam up and away from the tangle of lines and disappeared on the other side of the iceberg . |
| 28 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 29 | It flew up from under his feet and rolled down the steep path . |
| 30 | Mr Bumble jumped to his feet and went to the other end of the room . |