Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] and [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rose suddenly and brushed back the tears , crying would get her nowhere . |
| 2 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 3 | Jill darted forward and picked up the crushed envelope . |
| 4 | I trudged upstairs and picked up the tin and the opener . |
| 5 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 6 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 7 | As Henry turned away and walked down the room Reginald bellowed with laughter ; and when his brother reached the door he shouted , ‘ Happy Christmas ! |
| 8 | Corbett turned away and picked up the goblet , tasting the full red flavour of Bordeaux . |
| 9 | Reluctant to brave the corridor again in case the conspirators emerged and caught her , she turned sharply and fled up the tower stairs , just one thought uppermost in her mind . |
| 10 | The other man nodded silently and tapped out the signal on a key-board built into his desk . |
| 11 | She yawned sleepily and slipped down the bank to the water 's edge to wash her face with her paws . |
| 12 | Caroline swung away and stared out the windscreen . |
| 13 | Modern historians are quite uncertain whether an individual of that name existed here and carried out the exploits attributed to him ; or whether he is a representative figure around whom have accreted the age-old memories of a people 's struggles to maintain inherited liberties in the face of alien subjection . |
| 14 | Bernice stepped forward and picked up the hat . |
| 15 | I stepped forward and switched on the light in the kitchen . |
| 16 | Tiny Bennion grinned again and pointed up the wharf towards the dock office . |
| 17 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 18 | Between because before they got he went away and measured up the body and he also had sometime then you see he would have to go and put the body in the coffin . |
| 19 | She went downstairs and brought up the only sweets she had in the house ; a box of liqueur chocolates . |
| 20 | He reached across and pulled up the blanket until it covered the boy 's chest . |
| 21 | He smiled sadly , then went across and took up the basin , carrying it across to the door . |
| 22 | Benjamin went across and pulled back the dead man 's head . |
| 23 | It is an Aboriginal understanding that the fauna and flora of the landscape has an ‘ increase centre ’ — an area of high electro-magnetic energy , where the performance of correct rituals will release the life essence or Kurunba stored there and bring about the desired increase . |
| 24 | Harriet Shakespeare gave a wavering smile and Keith reached forward and switched off the video recorder . |
| 25 | James leant forward and switched on the recorder . |
| 26 | He leant forward and picked up the bunch of keys and the bit of paper . |
| 27 | Shepherd leaned across and switched off the viewer , then lifted the thin black sheet and slipped it back into the folder . |
| 28 | Wull leaned across and pulled back the sleeve of Sandy 's jacket . ’ |
| 29 | Benjamin leaned forward and looked down the table at him . |
| 30 | Without a word he leaned forward and switched on the engine . |