Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 4 | She grieved for her father and worried about Maggie , but most of all she fumed and cried over the affair with James Halden . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 7 | His eyes were still lingering on the curves hidden by the black material that caught and shimmered in the light as she moved . |
| 8 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 9 | Someone threw a bunch of red roses , which he caught and put on the bar . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Himmler winced and said to the girl , ‘ Leave us . |
| 12 | She rose and stared through the window to the hills outside , to the sea running gently into the embracing arms of the bay . |
| 13 | They rose and fell on the beach of silence . |
| 14 | The launch , however , behaved like a well-trained work-horse and merely rose and fell with the swell . |
| 15 | Mrs Hollidaye 's voice was comforting as it rose and fell like the wind . |
| 16 | He rose and went to the window , looking down the slope . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then Abbot Radulfus rose and went to the altar . |
| 19 | The two men rose and went through the minister 's anteroom into his main office . |
| 20 | Edward rose and went into the hall . |
| 21 | Then he rose and stalked to the door . |
| 22 | She rose and stalked across the room , snatched her brush from the vanity table and dragged it through her hair with harsh , angry strokes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She rose and stooped for the shell . |
| 25 | Then rose and strayed around the room . |
| 26 | Yielding to the impulse , he rose and hurried towards the door . |
| 27 | She rose and hurried to the door and opening it saw not Craig but the small figure of Will Davies crouching in the street . |
| 28 | The liquid notes rose and flowed round the chandelier , already removed from its dust bag ready for the Season . |
| 29 | She rose and moved to the window and stared out into the silent square . |
| 30 | Miller nodded to Finch , who rose and moved to the hi-fi cabinet , where the three cassettes stood ready for use . |