Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | They are high speed and fun , cutting through the water with little wake , and are raced and cruised all around the UK . |
| 3 | On the one hand , private enterprise is presented as efficient , cost-effective and competitive while public provision is shown as wasteful , inefficient , and concerned more with the interests of the workers involved than with the consumers of the service . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 6 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 11 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 12 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 13 | He straightened up and gazed anxiously over the end of the bed at her . |
| 14 | He stopped , confused , by the bus stop opposite the Protestant Truth Society , and gazed unseeingly at the list of routes . |
| 15 | He puffed furiously on his pipe and gazed dreamily at the ceiling . |
| 16 | You 've a gift for this sort of thing , ’ declared Susan , as she sat down by the fire and gazed appreciatively round the room . |
| 17 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 18 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She grew bored , and gazed out of the window , at the fading winter light and the fluttering descent of the snow . |
| 21 | Iris yawned , put her hands behind her head and gazed out of the window . |
| 22 | With a hesitant smile she turned away from him , and sipped what was left of her champagne and gazed out of the window . |
| 23 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 24 | Cornelius drew the curtains and gazed out upon the day . |
| 25 | With some deliberation , he withdrew his arms from under the bedclothes and gazed tiredly at the backs of his hands . |
| 26 | ‘ So am I. ’ Heather turned again to the opening and gazed hard over the fields to where the spirals of smoke were rising behind the bushes . |
| 27 | Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling . |
| 28 | I nodded and gazed adoringly across the table at those dark , passionate eyes . |
| 29 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 30 | He took another sip of whisky and gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling . |