Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 2 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 3 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 5 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 6 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 7 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 8 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 9 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 10 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 11 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 12 | She grew bored , and gazed out of the window , at the fading winter light and the fluttering descent of the snow . |
| 13 | Iris yawned , put her hands behind her head and gazed out of the window . |
| 14 | With a hesitant smile she turned away from him , and sipped what was left of her champagne and gazed out of the window . |
| 15 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 16 | Cornelius drew the curtains and gazed out upon the day . |
| 17 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 18 | And when the messenger had made his reverence and limped out from the presence , Henry turned his head a little , and looked at his closest confidants , but obliquely , out of the corner of a sunken eye , and dismissed them , too . |
| 19 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 20 | and read up to the summer |
| 21 | The van slewed wildly , but kept travelling , smoke appearing from its rear tyres as it swerved and skidded back towards the exit . |
| 22 | Jan Indian-striped my cheek with lipstick and hopped on to the platform , turning to shout : ‘ They 'll think I 'm one too , Monica ! |
| 23 | She turned on her heel and stalked out of the room . |
| 24 | Cornelius slammed down the receiver and stalked back to the car . |
| 25 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 26 | Then he spun on his heel and stalked off round the side of the cart . |
| 27 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 28 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 29 | He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He just walked in , pushed her aside and made off with the handbag , ’ she claimed . |