Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 2 | Sarah had come to the car with them and Julia asked Pat to go back to the reception . |
| 3 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 4 | When Morton came in , a few minutes later , he found Bragg staring out of the window , his dead pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 5 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 6 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 7 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 8 | The treaty is being put to the vote again because last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh allowed Denmark to opt out of the treaty 's terms on defence co-operation , a common currency , supranational co-operation on police and legal matters , and ‘ union citizenship ’ . |
| 9 | But costly turnovers allowed Washington to creep back into the game , despite the dominance of the Cowboys defence . |
| 10 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 11 | She heard Oliver stump out of the room and the sound of water running . |
| 12 | Hitch held her gaze until he heard Plummer heading back towards the kitchen . |
| 13 | She heard Klift cry out under the shattering din of the falling rock . |
| 14 | Then I heard Hywel come back into the room and the smiling stopped . |
| 15 | ‘ If you ask me , that 's going a bit far , ’ said Ozaran as he watched Jinkwa snuggling up to the dead body of the General . |
| 16 | As he watched Melody walking back to the farm , deliberately exaggerating the swing of her hips for his benefit , Seb was thinking of Anna . |
| 17 | He urged Vincent to go back to the Borinage and continue with his work there , though without promising to intercede . |
| 18 | He drew him another map and watched Blunset wander off into the darkness . |
| 19 | He tried unsuccessfully to sniff back the tears as he watched Yanto race back towards the docks . |
| 20 | Patrick watched Chris setting off down the 10th and then cut across to the 11th green , which was quite close . |
| 21 | One of the most moving things of the whole voyage was when I saw Uskair loom out of the mist . |
| 22 | When he saw Duclos striding back across the compound dragging a young Annamese boy behind him , he smiled quietly to himself , stepped back into his bedroom and began fumbling with the buttons of his silk shirt . |
| 23 | Behind Kragan , Adam saw Kaas come back into the room . |
| 24 | Thankfully , the week after we whooped Chelsea to get back on the rails to that now famous title finale ( famous for us anyhow — right ? ) : - ) . |
| 25 | I saw Falconer go up to the top of the tower . |
| 26 | ‘ I will look after Celia , ’ Liza replied , picking up the telephone , and the calm decisive way in which she handled the situation sent Edna running off up the lane with Bobby , without further demurrence . |
| 27 | As he did so , he saw Hasan walk out from the back kitchen . |
| 28 | But a short time later Michael saw Dale walk out onto the balcony to play with his toys . |
| 29 | STEVE NICOL 'S extra-time blunder sent Liverpool spinning out of the Coca-Cola Cup as Crystal Palace 's patchwork heroes claimed a famous victory at Selhurst Park last night . |
| 30 | And she saw Adam start up from the Starr grass . |