Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We squelched through the oozy wet mud of the long sea wall at Titchwell Marsh . |
| 2 | ‘ Best hang tight to my arm , boy , ’ he yelled and together they leaned forward and tramped through the long wet grass to wrestle with the Littles ' gate . |
| 3 | He passed through the green linoleumed passage and into the hall . |
| 4 | The number of kin living together rose during the early industrial period ( up to the middle of the nineteenth century ) and remained fairly constant thereafter . |
| 5 | The marital fertility of agricultural labourers actually rose during the late nineteenth century relative to other social groups , and this , together with their low levels of infant mortality , resulted in a large average family size . |
| 6 | Each year Zuwaya moved between the northern coastal strip of semi-desert ( where they arrived in spring for the early pasture ) and the oases of the central Sahara . |
| 7 | The footbridge section was narrow , but only a couple of feet to his left — within touching distance , in fact — was the steel mesh side of the railway bridge where monsters went battering across , drowning out conversation as their lights flickered through the big crossed support girders . |
| 8 | Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert . |
| 9 | Beatrice was anxious not to follow what she regarded as the purposeless social round of the society wife and felt that the ‘ governing and guiding ’ work performed by women philanthropists was much less likely to ‘ unsex ’ women than academic work or the ‘ push and severity ’ demanded of a professional woman such as the hospital matron . |
| 10 | After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom . |
| 11 | When she left in the evening , I wandered through the great empty building . |
| 12 | She headed for the outsize black car that was parked opposite . |
| 13 | Determined not to re-enter blind institution life , I headed for the nearby technical college who would n't have me either . |
| 14 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 15 | Entire neighbourhoods headed for the unexpected one-way potlatch . |
| 16 | The Ceauşescus , of course , were underdogs who rose despite the new capitalist system — or at least as its enemies . |
| 17 | Only when the soldiers moved opposite the Palestinian front line at Galerie Semaan — and the familiar crackle of Beirut rifle fire began to make the troops nervous — did the Syrian column come to a halt as if scarcely able to take in its objectives . |
| 18 | Donna got to her feet , still keeping low , and moved towards the small round window close to the front door in the hall . |
| 19 | Ahead , a handful of broken Ionic columns rose against the pale blue sky . |
| 20 | Dunne belonged to ‘ the military section of Britain 's old upper class ’ , as J. B. Priestley [ q.v. ] , who based Time and the Conways ( 1937 ) on his interpretation of Dunne 's theory , was to recall ; ‘ he looked and behaved like the old regular officer type crossed with a mathematician and an engineer . ’ |
| 21 | As he [ Mr Field ] was elected and then reselected under the old 1985 procedure and he accepted those victories with a certain amount of good grace , I would hope he would accept that procedure . |
| 22 | After dark , working by compass , we headed into the desolate Scottish countryside , our rucksacks weighted with filled sandbags to get us used to travelling long arduous miles with heavy loads . |
| 23 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |
| 24 | As he moved to start dousing the flames , Ashley fled into the small whitewashed bedroom on the other side of the hall . |
| 25 | As before she entered into the huge open hall or lobby , with its chessboard floor of russet-and-black marble . |
| 26 | She rose from the furry white armchair which he was sure was her choice . |
| 27 | Their hats sailed up , whirling black against the screen , as the dust rose from the red plush seating , while in the back rows the disapproving dentist 's wife , would shake their heads and tut tut at the rowdies down front . |
| 28 | Faced with the dilemma of dropping a shot or ‘ playing her as she lies ’ , after long deliberations , O'Leary waded in the 4-foot deep water and out went his chances of winning . |
| 29 | Many lines of thought were eventually brought together in the 454 folio pages of Bishop Wilkins 's Essay Towards a Real Character and Philosophical Language , which Slaughter deems a monument to that time ‘ when western Europe entered upon the early modern period of its specialised scientific and technical development ’ . |
| 30 | The local stations on this system ranged from the simple wooden building at Batu Gajah or Tampin to the large , airy , open-sided barn style at Teluk Anson . |