Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm quite hungry for some breakfast , ’ said Snodgrass , as they followed Caspar along the galleries and down the staircases and through huge , high-ceilinged chambers . |
| 2 | After all , up the lads and down the hatch . |
| 3 | Oil your hands a little more generously this time and slide them over the shoulders and up the back of the neck . |
| 4 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 5 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 6 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 7 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 8 | On the one hand they must move along the lines and down the page ; on the other they must be still if you are to read a word . |
| 9 | His blue shirt , open at the neck and showing a mat of black hair , was wet with sweat in the armpits and down the back . |
| 10 | However , I did find that after a short time the material began to pill quite badly around the cuffs and down the front . |
| 11 | As the teeth sink into the flesh , the pressure of this action squeezes venom out of the glands and down the hollow tubes of the paired fangs . |
| 12 | Undertown was designed as a summer holiday house , facing south towards the dunes and up the Camel Estuary , with a view across the golf links to the church of St Enodoc and Brae Hill beyond . |
| 13 | The other three pairs came from the trees and down the sloping fields in complete silence . |
| 14 | In the stunned silence that followed , Patrick raced up the stairs and down the hall and had the door open and was actually in the room before another word had been spoken . |
| 15 | Alexandra nodded and went quietly up the stairs and down the landing , past the bowls of pot-pourri and prints of wild flowers framed in black and gold , to her own room . |
| 16 | They carried gold and coal , machinery and books , tea and wool , cotton goods and cheap tin trays , not only to the ends of the earth but also round the coasts and up the rivers . |
| 17 | They drove through the gates and up the avenue of ancient lime trees . |
| 18 | There was no sign of the dog as they made haste through the alders and up the field to the first hedgerow . |
| 19 | We joined the surge out through the doors and down the marble stairs . |
| 20 | The beds are cramped together along the walls and down the centre of the ward . |