Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 2 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 3 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to controversial royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 4 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 5 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 6 | On , a strange dog was seen running out through the main gate with aforementioned chicken in his mouth and a packet of Paxo around his neck ! |
| 7 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
| 8 | One can distinguish a typical trajectory — shown moving down from the upper left of the figure — as married couples reach the statutory retirement-age . |
| 9 | She 'd stopped riding out with the first lot because of nausea on waking , and Tremayne , far from minding , continually urged her to rest more . |
| 10 | They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows . |
| 11 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 13 | ( It is also remarkable how commonly ideas similar to his have kept re-surfacing up to the present day , often without any apparent awareness on the part of their authors that Schleiermacher had already developed them , or that the subsequent movement of theology was to expose serious inadequacies in them . ) |