Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the square in front of the hotel , an avenue led down to the Corniche where people strolled arm iii arm along the Nile . |
| 2 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
| 3 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 4 | He got to his feet in one sinuous movement , stretching hugely , his arms above his head , before he sank down in the chair opposite . |
| 5 | Meryl sank down in the chair gratefully . |
| 6 | Lifting it , she peered down into the blackness below , feeling the first rung of a rickety ladder as she dangled her foot into the yawning gap . |
| 7 | ‘ Hey , Ellen ! ’ the doctor shouted down to the galley where Ellen was trying to disguise the fact that the frozen steaks were being thawed in a microwave . |
| 8 | The little larvae soon emerge — they know which way to go ! — and bore down into the stem where they pupate and eventually emerge as adults . |
| 9 | When we run the satellite sequence , you can see all the cloud that moved in from the west overnight and the good news is that the back edge is not too far away . |
| 10 | Curtis commented wryly and moved over to the bedside again . |
| 11 | As she did there was a screech of brakes and another car drew up outside the cottage opposite , causing her to glance up . |
| 12 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 13 | The small village was completely silent as the Marines who had landed at the small fishing jetty moved up into the plateau where the houses were built . |
| 14 | He moved up through the system rapidly enough to make his mark without looking flashy . |
| 15 | He squared up to the putt once . |
| 16 | In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone . |
| 17 | ‘ Displacement activity , ’ she said and headed back to the mantelpiece where she swapped a silver-framed photograph for a white porcelain horse . |
| 18 | This perfidious inner reaction drove her into ferocious silence as they headed back down the coast again , berating her stupidity as she watched the lush green hills glide by . |
| 19 | One participant has to describe a route traced out on the map so that both speaker and listener follow the identical route . |
| 20 | She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke . |
| 21 | Millie moved back to the window now . |
| 22 | After a moment or two Hosanna moved back to the step again . |
| 23 | So Moely turned , and swam back to the shore as quickly as he could . |
| 24 | Then some sea creatures developed lungs and the ability to breathe air and they moved out of the ocean on to dry terrain . |
| 25 | We all moved out of the church down to the lake which glistened brightly , though the island itself was still mist-shrouded . |
| 26 | Trafalgar moved out of the press again when they sold their titles to United Newspapers in 1985 . |
| 27 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
| 28 | just came up over night till we found out in the morning well you can see it ca n't you Oh you did you see it ? the swelling on your dad 's foot . |
| 29 | My private office helped out on the baby-sitting very effectively but I am sure quite improperly . |
| 30 | While he was getting ready , I wandered back to the turning where I 'd left Armstrong and looked back across the road . |