Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the sky " in BNC.
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| 1 | More to the point , at that age , Auntie tells me , I saw no distinction between the two Fathers , both of whom lived in the sky . |
| 2 | I looked at the sky , as one might on feeling a spot of rain , and saw the red dust-clouds of a storm in the east . |
| 3 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 4 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 5 | The match ball , which plummeted from the sky into match judge Fred Trueman 's eager hands , conveyed by a female member of the 4th ( V ) Battalion The Parachute Regiment 's free-fall team , hardly left the ground as Chris Lewis bowled his early sighters after Pakistan had grasped the nettle by batting first . |
| 6 | Harris and Puddle produced their breathtaking stand in just 138 minutes , no doubt influenced in their hurry by the black threatening clouds which scurried across the sky for most of the day . |
| 7 | The night skies were star-filled and clear , the only snag as far as we were concerned being the dawn mist which appeared as the sky lightened and the squadron started to return , making visibility difficult to judge , both for us and the aircraft trying to land . |
| 8 | Standing up , he gazed through the window at the massive gritstone ridge which stood against the sky on the other side of the main dale . |
| 9 | She glanced at the sky now but quickly looked away . |
| 10 | Then they soared into the sky as one , to make flight north as a pair along the coast to Wrath . |
| 11 | So they flew across the sky until they came to the doors of the world where two bearded wolves mount guard . |
| 12 | But it stopped at the sky . |
| 13 | By day for twelve hours he sailed across the sky with gods in his boat , piloted by his vizier Thoth , the moon , and accompanies by his daughter , Maat , the symbol of his world order . |
| 14 | In the windless valley , it dropped from the sky in vertical sheets . |
| 15 | It rained in the sky , in long streaky sheets , but the rain dried up before it reached the ground . |
| 16 | The broomstick gave a curious twitch , and next instant it soared into the sky — with Carol on it ! |
| 17 | He glanced at the sky . |
| 18 | He looked at the sky . |
| 19 | He looked at the sky , and scratched the back of his neck with the bat . |
| 20 | ‘ East Anglia is one layer of clothes colder than the south , ’ remarked Davyd who was getting out of his car , ‘ but look — ’ he pointed at the sky — and there was a rainbow — that magic circumference of the world . |
| 21 | He pointed to the sky and then to the clearing , to the path that led to the cabin where Sycorax lay , and Kit understood that he had been granted permission to remain three cycles of the moon . |
| 22 | He pointed to the sky : ‘ Indian sun . |