Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 2 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 3 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 4 | He rolled over , and spread his loosened limbs in the bed , he opened windows , he went to the Tate Gallery alone and looked at the dissolving blue and gold air of Turner 's Norham Castle . |
| 5 | He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit . |
| 6 | The four youngsters — who went to school together and played in the same soccer team — died instantly . |
| 7 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 8 | Then the Annamite woman began to sob and he relented at last and raised himself from her ; still moaning quietly to herself she scrambled from the cot onto the dirt floor , gathered her scraps of clothing together and fled past the American woman into the rain . |
| 9 | In effect it was a return to the conditions of mid-Silurian times , with a corresponding decrease in provincialism , but it lasted longer and led to the fantastic flowering of the Frasnian reefs . |
| 10 | Together they floated away and played in the clear , blue sky . |
| 11 | With that , he turned away and walked towards the waiting van . |
| 12 | Jim looked away and focused on the solid glass ashtray on the coffee table . |
| 13 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 14 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 15 | Ann was n't sure whether to ask Amyas in or not , so she left him standing outside and hurried into the large parlour , where Harry was experimenting with tobacco . |
| 16 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |
| 17 | Reaching Georgia Street I turned right and walked past the old Hotel Vancouver to the Hotel Georgia . |
| 18 | Corbett spun round quickly and stared at the cowled , shadowy figure before him . |
| 19 | He inserted the key almost furtively and stood in the small vestibule and smelt the place — floor polish mixed with the bitter scent of chrysanthemums in a blue bowl . |
| 20 | He frowned deeply and peered at the narrow line of black and white spaces hanging in the air in front of him . |
| 21 | Athelstan took him aside and stared into the bleary-eyed face . |
| 22 | He tossed the jug aside and reached for the discarded bandage with his good arm . |
| 23 | He unseated his rider once and fell at the 7th in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 24 | When the Nazis took power he went underground and worked in the communist resistance , was arrested and did eight years ' penal servitude . |
| 25 | Then in the account of how the risen Lord Jesus Himself drew near and walked with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus ( Luke 24 verses 13/31 ) we read of how He explained from the scriptures that all the events surrounding His crucifixion had been foreshadowed and foretold in the Word of God . |
| 26 | Rincewind swayed back as a wildly thrown stool sailed past and smashed on the far side of the street . |
| 27 | This was fine until the wind direction changed slightly and came across the fixed line . |
| 28 | An office colleague to whom I had told my story , went to Lochinver by train and bus a few months later and stayed at the same cottage . |
| 29 | Mobuto inhaled sharply and glanced at the massive bodyguard who was hovering in the background . |
| 30 | He bowed ceremonially and gestured into the black cavern behind them . |