Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 2 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 3 | LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ . |
| 4 | They broke through the upper windows and tumbled down in the middle of us . |
| 5 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 6 | She unlocked the door and got back in the shower . |
| 7 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 8 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 9 | She pushed the gate further open and peered round in the twilight . |
| 10 | He opened the little back gate and peered around in the dark for the shelter . |
| 11 | He took no notice , but turned in and drew up in the courtyard . |
| 12 | Caroline freed it carefuly , rose from the bed , and sank down in the chair beside it . |
| 13 | ‘ I have had a long chat with Stephen and told him I know that he is knocking at the door of the full international side , but I would rather he played and helped out in the match at Tannadice than did nothing at Ibrox . ’ |
| 14 | When the horses , being bridled to lead them to safety , panicked and lashed out in the dark , threatening to do worse harm to the buildings than the wind would , it was his father who forced his way between them and dragged out the pair who were causing most trouble . |
| 15 | After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself . |
| 16 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 17 | So he 'd sort of had a well I suppose he 'd messed around helped and played about in the smithy . |
| 18 | I touched my cap and strolled off in the direction of the Old Kent Road . |
| 19 | I managed to get my seat belt off and ducked down in the seat to get out of range of the gunshots . ’ |
| 20 | Form criticism examines the way in which the traditions of Jesus were preserved and handed on in the time before the writing of the Gospels . |
| 21 | She took off her clothes and turned round in the moonlight . |
| 22 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 23 | They descended the switchback road and turned off in the valley towards the church ; which stood in its walled graveyard , solid , square-towered . |
| 24 | The way to make NoS popular was to put lots of people in it They could be used to bring home the sort of things which should be exposed and campaigned about in the paper — like housing conditions , or unemployment . |
| 25 | I drank three pints of water and then eased the wheelbarrow backwards onto firm ground and trundled on in the certainty of my safety . |
| 26 | No sooner was Neil in the air than the left gun panel in the upper wing surface came loose and stuck up in the air . |
| 27 | and left it and walked off in the kitchen . |
| 28 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Have a nice time , and behave yourselves , ’ he concluded , and walked off in the direction of the garden . |
| 30 | I died — and walked off in the dark . ’ |