Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 2 | Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs . |
| 3 | I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth . |
| 4 | But even as she was unslinging her canvas bag , so the group moved off to the lifts again . |
| 5 | The heat from the front room rose up through the floorboards so that the room , although bare , was warm . |
| 6 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 7 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 8 | But it was I who got away to the steps up to the morning room , Francis 's sorry steps . |
| 9 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |
| 10 | He sidled along towards the panels where , with any luck , Angalo was hiding . |
| 11 | Hopkins played nicely to the crowds too , although it was hard to figure out if it was conscious manipulation or the unconscious product of his enthusiasm . |
| 12 | Again , the light level was subterranean , but there were no curtains so a fair amount of yellow light came in from the streetlamps outside . |
| 13 | Even when I played through proxies he must have still known it was me , because one day , 'bout the end of my second year on Mars , I woke up with the blues just like you did . |
| 14 | Through a selection of combos including Carlsbro , Ampeg , Vantage , Vox and Dean Markley the A2 came up with the goods easily . |
| 15 | When Kāli came back with the cows only minutes later , she was caught in the full force of the downpour . |
| 16 | Goshawk Squadron flew all that day , and came back from the patrols badly mauled . |
| 17 | After a fashionably elevenish dinner at my hostal-Pension , in a small green dining-room lit by blinding neon , I strolled out into the streets where the sellers of lottery tickets were still in full cry — ‘ Para hoy ! |
| 18 | A little boy came out of the woods opposite and began skiing down the slope towards the road . |
| 19 | He thought , privately , that they might be very glad of the horses , because they might find that they came out of the Workshops much faster than they went in , but he did not say this . |
| 20 | Those who trudged dutifully to the polls yesterday to mark their perforated ballot papers with an ‘ X ’ in the appropriate box , or who sat through last night 's results with only black coffee for company , would have witnessed a tableau of restrictive practices and old spanish customs fit to warm the heart of the most backward-looking member of Nalgo . |
| 21 | Benny found herself standing in a smooth-floored entryway that opened on to the docks about ten feet further on . |
| 22 | Something that we linked in with the frustrations earlier . |
| 23 | Here we see the usual linen winding-sheet , parted to show not only the face but the entire body , with the arms placed at his side and turned in at the elbows so that the hands meet over the groin . |
| 24 | The opinions are printed and handed down to the parties rather than being read aloud . |
| 25 | They turned off into the woods where th'fence ends . |
| 26 | Librarians in the USA faced up to the problems rather earlier , and there is some literature offering guidance from the late 1970s . |
| 27 | According to Virginia Cowles , he dropped with Lewes 's party , but others say that he was left at Kabrit as a result of injuries during training and met up with the survivors later . |
| 28 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
| 29 | They walked back to the cars together and Preston never did get to stand there alone . |
| 30 | These were then combined as a buffet and served back to the students together with one free soft drink of their choice . |