Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I settled back in my seat , picked some dirt from my fingernails with a spare scythe blade , and whispered discreetly through the partition . |
| 2 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 3 | He straightened up and gazed anxiously over the end of the bed at her . |
| 4 | He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes . |
| 5 | He puffed furiously on his pipe and gazed dreamily at the ceiling . |
| 6 | You 've a gift for this sort of thing , ’ declared Susan , as she sat down by the fire and gazed appreciatively round the room . |
| 7 | Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling . |
| 8 | I nodded and gazed adoringly across the table at those dark , passionate eyes . |
| 9 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |
| 10 | The way it slips down the neck of your new one-piece after you 've crossed your tips and plunged head-first into the stuff . |
| 11 | Suddenly , they both jumped up , pulled off their remaining cotton restrictions and plunged straight into the water . |
| 12 | He cursed loudly as his rubber clad right foot struck off a slimy rock and plunged knee-deep into the mud and water . |
| 13 | ‘ He lost his footing in the frost and plunged headlong into the woman 's swimming pool . |
| 14 | The exposure of the scandal blighted the careers of several leading politicians and led ultimately to the resignation of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita in May 1989 . |
| 15 | He proceeded to explain the Plan , starting with a brief review of the world components market which positioned Europe to the rest of the world and led straight into the Plan . |
| 16 | Its door could be opened from the inside and led directly to the corridor . |
| 17 | Although she was not aware of it she was , in her shabby white cotton blouse and her dark green skirt , with her blue-black and glossy curls drawn up and knotted simply on the top of her head , her face glowing and vital , the only touch of colour in the grimy street . |
| 18 | It may be that the poll tax was used as a pretext for anarchists , militants and other left-wing Labour Party fellow travellers to encourage riots and civil disorder , but many joined in for the kicks and cared little about the issue . |
| 19 | Module headers can be generated and duplicated quickly on the user 's account , perhaps with standard information related to the project in hand supplied in certain fields . |
| 20 | So then I went to the bank and asked politely in the name of the Mamur Zapt if I could check Andrus 's account . |
| 21 | The adult has then drawn attention to a deliberate change in the array , and asked again about the numerosity of the sets . |
| 22 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 23 | None of this could detract from the supremacy of Williams , as Mansell and Patrese dominated the field and scrapped fiercely for the lead . |
| 24 | In desperation he whipped the knife back to his good left hand and lunged forward with the blade extended before him . |
| 25 | He took the evening newspaper and skimmed quickly through the story . |
| 26 | Mrs. Mounce jumped out of the armchair and twinkled away to the door . |
| 27 | Though not lettered , Lehzen read ( and read aloud to the princess ) and imparted to the child a love of history . |
| 28 | Every time Shirley was on the telly thereafter , I would notice how she put her head to one side and agreed absolutely with the questioner ‘ except did n't he think that … ’ . |
| 29 | It touched the ground at what appeared to be an impossible speed and skidded terrifyingly along the runway amid clouds of dust accompanied by a scraping , nerve-shattering , high-pitched screech . |
| 30 | Watched by her baffled cat , Mildred squeezed through the gap and hopped away down the corridor , convinced that nothing could be worse than just sitting helplessly in her room . |