Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] and [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tears welled up in her eyes , and she did nothing to stop them from spilling through her fingers and on to her cheeks . |
| 2 | She clung to the front of her costume , gritting her teeth as he widened the circle of massage , smoothing the cream over her shoulders and down towards the small of her back . |
| 3 | The two men who were tending the fire under the boiler were Dr'gasians — squat and bald , with decorative tattoos which ran across their shoulders and down inside their tunics . |
| 4 | His passengers were all shaken and some were thrown from their seats and on to each other . ’ |
| 5 | She turned her head away , scalding tears coursing down her cheeks and on to the pillow which had absorbed her earlier grief . |
| 6 | They have developed a means of cutting down the rate at which water passes through their systems and out through pores ( stomata ) in their leaves . |
| 7 | Any money Lily gave went straight into their mouths and on to their backs . |
| 8 | Whilst it has been assumed that these charges were fabricated by Musgrave ( and perhaps by Thomas Cromwell , q.v. ) , there is evidence to suggest that Dacre did indeed have private arrangements with the Scots which served to divert their raids away from his estates and on to Bewcastle . |
| 9 | These gaily coloured little creatures run all over the shaman 's body , and often live in convenient crannies such as in his ears and in between his toes . |
| 10 | Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other . |
| 11 | With a muttered curse Fen was on his feet and out of the cabin . |
| 12 | ‘ Farquhar ! ’ he gasped , and was borne off his feet and down into the water by the force of the attack . |
| 13 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |
| 14 | ‘ Not at all , ’ he murmured , and reached up a strong hand to flick it out , but not before Rachel had noticed how long his fingers were , and how black hairs grew over his wrists and down towards those fingers . |
| 15 | Her pulses quickened as she ran her hand delicately along his collarbone , over his biceps and back to his chest . |
| 16 | At the beginning of his translation , Mannyng appeals to the reader : His vivid description of the Crucifixion both stresses Christ 's willingness — he climbs the ladder to mount the cross , then turns at the top , laying himself vulnerable and open as he stretches out his arms and back against it — and rams home the shock of pain as the nails are driven in . |
| 17 | Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron . |
| 18 | Even then he had not liked to look into it too much but had kept his eyes on the ground or straight ahead of him because the wood was the kind of place you saw in story-book illustrations or even in your dreams and out of which things were liable to come creeping . |