Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigger barked in annoyance , and moved out into the more bearable climate of the dry heat rooms . |
| 2 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 3 | The drinkers , drunk as they were , full of glasses of wine , fell back from the man , who , with the rags he wore , had surprisingly clean white underpants — what struck Rab — raised his coat and squatted down as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 4 | Benin eased the velvet curtains apart and looked out over the brightly lit garden . |
| 5 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |
| 6 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 7 | Thus they were , in majority , from professional and administrative families , and grew up within the newly regularized ( reformed ) educational system of ‘ public ’ school and university . |
| 8 | So he went back to bed and slid in beside the now silent , still figure of Emily , and nursed his throbbing right wrist with his left hand and imagined himself as one of those recumbent stone knights you sometimes see in churches , stretched out with arms crossed at the breast , cold and grey and dead , feeling no pain . |