Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We moved fast back up the stairs , along the passage and back down into the lobby of the Regal Arms , trying not to run .
2 We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign .
3 And she 'd away back up the way to bed again .
4 Duvall cursed aloud , fired one last shot directly into the door and whatever lay beyond it , heard the resounding roar of anger and rage … and then retreated hastily back up the stairs towards them .
5 Jack walked slowly back up the stairs numb and shivering .
6 I dashed straight back up the road to my own house , rang Paul and told him I 'd definitely have one , and maybe two .
7 Keep moving right and you should find the concert permit , jump up onto the purple wall and walk right to the other side , get one of the three crates and kill the mugger , then walk to the right and jump up three platforms to reach a heart , fall down to where you started then climb down the ladder with a crate , kill the workman , go down another level and kill the mugger ( avoiding the dog ) , go down another level , climb down the ladder and go down again , you can risk hitting the wire and flame to collect the records ( macho time again ) , climb down a final ladder and jump off to the left .
8 Since the Russian Revolution did not spread to the West , Communists became prisoners of a state with pretensions to a universal mission , and their identification with the foreign policy needs of the Soviet Union represented little advance over the subordination of an older generation of radicals to the interests of the City of London .
9 He kicked the wreckage aside , and ran into the empty engine room , searching , as the Russian looked anxiously back up the stairway , listening to the tremendous blows echoing through the ship .
10 The sense expressed would therefore be diagrammable as : This is not the case with have , which always carries the implication that this event is actualized : ( 174 ) * Miriam now had Pengally break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far .
11 With the blackest hair she had ever seen , swept straight back off the forehead .
12 I asked yer ter let me do these books 'cos I wanted ter sort out the bills an' see where we can make savin 's .
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