Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtains were still pulled and he placed one of the packages of groceries on the table , holding the other to his side as he went across the room and whipped back the heavy green curtains . |
| 2 | They came instead upon another of Whipple 's scouting parties , under Lieutenant S.M. Rains , and wiped out the entire twelve-man detachment . |
| 3 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 4 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 5 | The right hon. Gentleman ignores the fact that I head a Government who have cut interest rates seven times in the past 12 months , halved inflation in a year and built up the best industrial relations in half a century . |
| 6 | Snipe do n't sing , they only drum their wings , she remembered , as she cut through the thread-like neck , and holding the bird 's head by its absurdly long beak , crunched through the white skull and sucked out the strange delicious brains within it . |
| 7 | Impetus and the driving weight told , and the wedge , only a little misshapen now , crashed through and bore down the few extra yards upon the waiting English . |
| 8 | So much for security , Ruth mused as she leapt back into the jeep and drove up the long gravelly drive ; I could be a burglar for all he knew . |
| 9 | She started in the bathroom , where she washed down years of dust from walls and ceiling , scoured the toilet so that it sparkled , and dug out the thick dusty webs behind the pipes and wash-basin , disturbing a colony of frantic spiders . |
| 10 | Now several people in the audience were on their feet and waving in an attempt to attract the attention of Gerrard , who left the dais and walked up the narrow central aisle , holding a hand microphone high in the air . |
| 11 | She went to the Underground , sat on the train planning what she was going to do , and walked up the big rich tree-lined road where Theresa and Anthony had their home . |
| 12 | She rubbed her cheek against his chest and breathed in the clean male scent of him . |
| 13 | Spurred on by a new hope , she ran across the road and scrambled up the smooth grassy side of the hillock . |
| 14 | I 'm concerned that we give our three children the right education and lay down the best possible plans for the future . |
| 15 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 16 | The Carpets may have tumbled from grace with those anxious to keep pace with fashion , fallen victim to a mid-career plunge into the realms of prog rock and put out the odd dodgy single , but they 're currently looking like people whose revived self-belief is entirely justified . |
| 17 | Ludovico went straight to the Via Santo Spirito , strode purposefully through the leafy courtyard , and ran up the broad shallow stairs to the top floor . |
| 18 | In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 19 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 20 | A majority of the 1916 conference called for action to end the war , immediately provoking Hyndman and his supporters , including Jack Jones ( soon to become Labour MP for Silvertown ) and Thorne to depart and set up the National Socialist Party ( NSP ) . |
| 21 | FRANK BRUNO is urging bitter rival Lennox Lewis to world title glory — and set up the biggest British heavyweight battle of all time . |