Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of it , though , is just standard major record company dross which is greeted with a yawn and propelled directly into the nearest rubbish bin . |
| 2 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 3 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |
| 4 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 5 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 6 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 7 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 8 | " Sit here , near me , and let's be cosy … oh , well , perhaps just a touch , " she turned her eyes away from the bottle and gazed absently at the passing crowd until her glass was quite full . |
| 9 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 10 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 11 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 12 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 13 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 14 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 15 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 16 | It was a prime-ministerial cabinet in all but name and plunged instantly into the economic blizzard which engulfed the new Labour administration and with which , initially , it coped so inadequately . |
| 17 | Even as she observed this , it did just that , slithered off the nail which supported it and plunged headfirst into the deep blue of the mantelpiece . |
| 18 | An expression of pure horror shaped itself on his features as he slithered helplessly down the slope and plunged headlong into the stinking waters of Mucky Beck . |
| 19 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 20 | Sergeant Joe finished his warming whisky , shook hands with Mr Singleton , took hold of his carpet-bag , and limped out of the cosy , club-like atmosphere of Hennessey 's . |
| 21 | They handed people , patients , on to each other , they were known and sought out by the desperate among both clergy and laity . |
| 22 | Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence . |
| 23 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
| 24 | Although born and bred in the country and reinstalled there for the past 30 years , I fear I am not a proper countryman ; London has dished me . |
| 25 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 26 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 27 | Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . |
| 28 | The patient 's normal temperature range is established following admission and checked regularly in the early post-operative period . |
| 29 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 30 | At Bragança there was no response from the tower as we transmitted our intentions , landed and taxied in to the little apron . |