Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | TOMMY SMITH : ( Liverpool , Swansea and England — 1962-1979 ) : ‘ The minute he got off the coach and walked into the changing-room people would go for cover . |
| 2 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 3 | He got off the bed and walked to the window . |
| 4 | She got off the bed and , opening the bureau , took out a set of handcuffs and some leather-look rope . |
| 5 | She got off the bed and listened . |
| 6 | He got off the bed and went around . |
| 7 | She got off the bed and went to unlock the door without any trepidation , or any other strong emotion . |
| 8 | Now we got off the phone and knowing the man I allowed three . |
| 9 | Jess got off the bench and parted the bushes , peering into the laurel darkness , her heart pounding and her breath coming shallow and fast . |
| 10 | Fearing the worst , the driver and second man got off the locomotive and examined the train and the line side , but could find nothing untoward . |
| 11 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 12 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 13 | When they arrived in Milan , the two got off the train and , by coincidence , the first thing they both saw was a blown-up photograph of Penelope Tree . |
| 14 | So Margot got off the bus and the policeman says , now you have to really vigilant today Margot there 's a lot of bombs in Lisburn Right ! |
| 15 | ‘ So my father took him , and he got off the cart and off he went . |
| 16 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 17 | So we are erm continuously forecasting for the Gas and Electricity Authorities . |
| 18 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 19 | Now we 've just heard about the fox and it 's coming across into the clearing , then an eye widening deepening greenness and talks about it coming about his own business till a sudden sharp hot stink of fox enters the dark hole of the head . |
| 20 | A Swiss Bishop had heard about the project and suggested a plan which is essentially still followed in international meetings : i.e. that representatives of all Eucharist-centred endeavours and activities throughout the world should come together at certain times . |
| 21 | The drops of liquid solidified during the fall and were instantly cooled by the water , which also preserved the shot from damage by impact on a hard surface . |
| 22 | The moth was still fluttering between the pane and pinned scarlet cotton . |
| 23 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
| 24 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 25 | On a final , poignant note , I notice a large arrow sticking through the front and rear of the house . |
| 26 | One pupil , sitting in the coveted position alongside the radiator , is gazing through the window and into the distance . |
| 27 | Rather , they lived in practical uncertainty , often felt threatened , and then argued about the justice and permanence of the new order created for them . |
| 28 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 29 | ‘ BP expects the recovery factors for Gyda and Ula to be 42 and 50 per cent respectively , but hopes to achieve even better results by using the technology developed through the PROFIT and RUTH programmes . ’ |
| 30 | It can not be said that a warm relationship developed between the Minister and the doctors . |