Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] under the [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 | Susie Smallwood peered out under the festoon blind . |
3 | A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He lay down under the single sheet and closed his eyes . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Most of the houses down here were divided into.two flats , two front doors squeezed in under the tiny porch . |
10 | 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 . |