Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 2 | Uncle Albert made the drinks and got out the biscuit tin . |
| 3 | That the gulf existed was something she had known all along , so what she had overheard and the realisation it brought with it should n't be causing tears to prick behind her eyes as she opened the cupboard in the study that adjoined Faye and Bill 's bedroom , and got out the testing kit she had come for . |
| 4 | As he turned on the hot-water tap and got out the dish detergent , Hank abandoned the idea of going back to his garage . |
| 5 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 6 | ‘ Having ignored the demand side and played up the supply side , Niskanen has unbalanced his theory ’ ( Jackson 1982 , p. 132 ) . |
| 7 | They were embarked at Leith and sailed down the east coast to Gravesend where they were transferred to another ship . |
| 8 | She glared and banged down the iron pan she had taken from the fire , then lifting the lid allowed a huge cloud of steam to escape into the air . |
| 9 | The Yorkshire Television helicopter , which had lifted the crew in , landed in pitch darkness , totally against the ground rules laid down by the Civil Aviation Authority , and lifted out the film equipment . |
| 10 | I came round to her way of thinking and handed over the Visa card . |
| 11 | ‘ My grandfather moved to Billingford and he settled in and opened up the blacksmith shop … |
| 12 | To arbitrate this unity , UI has , as expected ( UX No 414 ) , wrestled the authority to pick technologies above the operating system away from Unix System Laboratories Inc and opened up the selection process to the industry at large . |
| 13 | Sick , sick day , ’ she moaned as she wiped the shelves of the fridge and turned down the temperature knob so that the intrusive crusts of ice would melt . |
| 14 | It had reached the lights just as the amber changed to red and turned down the Sandwich road . |
| 15 | He stretched stiffly , climbed out and clambered down the steel ladder to the hangar floor . |
| 16 | Charlotte booked into a hotel in the centre of Boston and hunted down the telephone directory in her room as soon as the porter had left . |
| 17 | We left him , got dressed again and walked down the fire escape . |
| 18 | Bragg and Morton took their leave , and walked down the canal towpath towards Stepney . |
| 19 | Carrefour gave them a wide grin , and stepped down the shadow path to their leader . |
| 20 | Bardsley untied his apron and hung up the tea cloth that , appropriately enough in this flat , was a large linen facsimile of a pound note . |
| 21 | Artisoft Inc has journeyed to Palo Alto , California from its backwoods base in Tucson , Arizona and signed up the Wollongong Group in a bid to give Lantastic users access to the Unix world . |
| 22 | Bernice leaned over the ‘ speeder and pulled out the Zagrat discod . |
| 23 | Then he went out and came back with his eyes all black and slitted , his face streaked with soot , a blanket around him and he shouted , ‘ I am Charlie Chan ! ’ and pulled out the carving knife . |
| 24 | Mandeville undid the clasps and pulled back the leather cover . |
| 25 | The program has ‘ looked ’ at your pattern and worked out the colour order from both horizontal and vertical lines . |
| 26 | She slipped under the bedclothes and switched on the reading lamp , adamant that she would shove him to the furthest corner of her mind , but the minute she opened her book her brain started working again , throwing up images of him , the way he smiled , that confident knowing look in his eyes when he addressed her . |
| 27 | Jane Pargeter stood up and switched on the standard lamp beside her chair , standing with her arms akimbo , self-contained yet vulnerable . |
| 28 | Irina drew the curtains and switched on the standard lamp beside Bill 's chair . |
| 29 | Christina entered the hallway and switched on the ceiling fan . |
| 30 | Then he turned from her abruptly , fastened his seatbelt , and switched on the ignition key . |