Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] under the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Instantly they took advantage and leapt in under the hesitating staff but as they did so two other shafts struck in quick succession , Allen 's second and Marian 's first . |
| 32 | His health broke down under the strain of overwork , and he returned to Ortona in 1869 to convalesce . |
| 33 | Lorton scrambled up under the dome . |
| 34 | Whatever it was , she could do nothing about it herself , since she had n't the remotest idea what went on under the bonnet of the Renault . |
| 35 | But he strongly disapproved of the proselytizing that went on under the cloak of humanitarianism . |
| 36 | There was a lot of dancing to the radio and , later , to John 's guitar ; a lot of Christmas cards were repeatedly sent toppling ; a lot of seasonal goings-on went on under the veritable forest of mistletoe that hung from the centre light . |
| 37 | We eased in under the city : Grand Central , where the train sighed , and the passengers sighed , one by one . |
| 38 | Moderator I am not convinced that in rejecting the legislation that went down under the Barrier Act , presbyteries were merely endorsing the status quo . |
| 39 | The boat went on without her and a few seconds later went down under the water . |
| 40 | It was like a drug , like the swell of the ocean , and she went down under the waves . |
| 41 | Ken reached down under the bar and produced a homemade sign . |
| 42 | He lay down under the single sheet and closed his eyes . |
| 43 | The feathers moved about in the current of air that blew in under the door . |
| 44 | D-DAY , June 6 , 1944 when the Allied invasion of Europe began , Sugar took off under the command of F/O I Fotheringham of 467 Squadron at 02.53 hours on this momentous day and delivered its 13,000lb bomb load onto a coastal battery at St Pierre du Mont . |
| 45 | Ras Makonnen governed Harar until his death in 1906 and there his son Tafari was born and grew up under the enlightened administration of his eminent father ; he was thirteen when his father died . |
| 46 | And a bubble blew up under the mud , and when the bubble was as big as an elephant it burst , and out popped Mrs Dinwiddie . |
| 47 | Or maybe — in a siding only a mile or two from where I lay — a cleaner 's brush was at this moment encountering the bag , wedged back under the seat … |
| 48 | I took a pile of the French and American magazines that lay on a table in the corner and went out under the colonnade . |
| 49 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 50 | ACORN Computers , the maker of the BBC Microcomputer , last week announced it was replacing 3600 defective tape recorders sent out under the Department of Industry 's scheme to provide schools with half-price computers . |
| 51 | Most of the houses down here were divided into.two flats , two front doors squeezed in under the tiny porch . |
| 52 | She squeezed back under the gate and carried the ball to the riverbank and pushed it in . |
| 53 | The spoils are stuffed into briefcases , smuggled out under the noses of security guards , and deposited somewhere like the left luggage at Waterloo Station ( a dumping ground that has actually been used ) . |
| 54 | The bed , tucked in under the corner where the roof sloped down , looked small and safe . |
| 55 | There was no guilt in the way she snuggled down under the coverlet , only a welcome sense of freedom . |
| 56 | With a sigh , she snuggled down under the quilt again . |
| 57 | Every time she was about to put a foot on the floor she suddenly found herself tucked up under the bedclothes again . |
| 58 | In the absence of some other agreed procedure , an outgoing partner , or his estate , is entitled to have the affairs of his former firm wound up under the Partnership Act and to be paid out for his interest . |
| 59 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 60 | I stayed on under the welding cold |