Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 2 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 3 | Fran shrugged , turning her face away from his calculating scrutiny , studying the way the moonlight bounced and sparkled off the water with a fixed expression on her face . |
| 4 | Sir John Menzies was part of that , by his marriage to Atholl 's daughter , and Atholl dined and intrigued with the Lord Advocate when he went to Edinburgh for the season . |
| 5 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 6 | She grieved for her father and worried about Maggie , but most of all she fumed and cried over the affair with James Halden . |
| 7 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 8 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 9 | A type 2 statistical error is possible in a clinical study of 17 patients , but our observations were very precise and carefully validated and agree with the results of a recent much larger study from Australia . |
| 10 | His eyes were still lingering on the curves hidden by the black material that caught and shimmered in the light as she moved . |
| 11 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 12 | Someone threw a bunch of red roses , which he caught and put on the bar . |
| 13 | He opened his eyes , his consciousness hazed and slowed by the kif he had smoked , and focused with difficulty on the watch on the bedside table . |
| 14 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 15 | One of them , Prof John Sargent , was among a band of eminent researchers in Britain , the United States , Canada , Italy and France who were bullied , cajoled and encouraged by the Odones to help in producing treatment that would save their son 's life . |
| 16 | Himmler winced and said to the girl , ‘ Leave us . |
| 17 | She rose and stared through the window to the hills outside , to the sea running gently into the embracing arms of the bay . |
| 18 | They rose and fell on the beach of silence . |
| 19 | The launch , however , behaved like a well-trained work-horse and merely rose and fell with the swell . |
| 20 | Mrs Hollidaye 's voice was comforting as it rose and fell like the wind . |
| 21 | In the hour before dawn , when the islanders ' forces knew that the raid on the Rebecca had started , they rose and advanced against the Belmont stockade , thinking to find only the skeleton watch Kit posted nightly and everyone else in their beds . |
| 22 | He rose and went to the window , looking down the slope . |
| 23 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 24 | Then Abbot Radulfus rose and went to the altar . |
| 25 | The two men rose and went through the minister 's anteroom into his main office . |
| 26 | Edward rose and went into the hall . |
| 27 | Then he rose and stalked to the door . |
| 28 | She rose and stalked across the room , snatched her brush from the vanity table and dragged it through her hair with harsh , angry strokes . |
| 29 | After several minutes he rose and walked to the shelf where he kept some personal books , among them the family bible , bearing the signature of his father and his grandfather and his great-grandfather . |
| 30 | She rose and stooped for the shell . |