Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] under [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crossroads lived on under the Central banner , but there were many more changes in store and some viewers did n't like take to those either . |
| 2 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 3 | Susie Smallwood peered out under the festoon blind . |
| 4 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
| 5 | Joseph Hucks now seemed a poor companion in comparison with Coleridge 's new Oxford friend , and as the two men walked on under a blazing sun , first to Gloucester — ‘ a nothing-to-be-said about Town ’ — and then to Ross-on-Wye , Coleridge 's thoughts returned constantly to the substance of his conversations with Southey . |
| 6 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 7 | At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come . |
| 8 | There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock . |
| 9 | There was a lot of dancing to the radio and , later , to John 's guitar ; a lot of Christmas cards were repeatedly sent toppling ; a lot of seasonal goings-on went on under the veritable forest of mistletoe that hung from the centre light . |
| 10 | He lay down under the single sheet and closed his eyes . |
| 11 | We talked a little more , while Terry and Tom prepared themselves for the inevitable angry reaction from the guards and Brian lay down under an extra blanket as his body came to terms with the shock of the beating . |
| 12 | Yesterday , it went off under an uncomfortable-looking Government bench as the Chancellor delivered an austerity package that raised taxes directly and indirectly and carried a message for the times . |
| 13 | Ras Makonnen governed Harar until his death in 1906 and there his son Tafari was born and grew up under the enlightened administration of his eminent father ; he was thirteen when his father died . |
| 14 | Most of the houses down here were divided into.two flats , two front doors squeezed in under the tiny porch . |
| 15 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 16 | In a remnant of old forest I came on some grazing deer and quickly dropped to ground and crawled in under a small bank where I was able to stay out of sight , out of smell , and enjoy a very good look at the herd . |
| 17 | He had been sedated and was propped in a sitting position with his plastered leg stretched out under a large bed-cradle . |
| 18 | Dad lay below , stretched out under a heavy cloth of blue and gold . |
| 19 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |