Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 2 | A man , understood to be Keith Pringle , remained in the house with Mrs Reece 's 21-year-old daughter Leanne as armed police surrounded and cordoned off the area . |
| 3 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 4 | A young man with a bad case of acne approached and pointed at the phone . |
| 5 | This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions . |
| 6 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 7 | Pine logs crackled and snapped in the small fireplace and warming dishes stood on stands at either end of the great writing desk . |
| 8 | Static crackled and flared through the roar of the storm outside . |
| 9 | Electricity crackled and flashed in the whole relationship , and in Vincent Van Gogh 's body , and brain . |
| 10 | Darkfall electricity crackled and danced on the rims of the shattered windows . |
| 11 | a number of research programmes were instituted and co–ordinated by the Department of the Environment . |
| 12 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 13 | Fran shrugged , turning her face away from his calculating scrutiny , studying the way the moonlight bounced and sparkled off the water with a fixed expression on her face . |
| 14 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 15 | She grieved for her father and worried about Maggie , but most of all she fumed and cried over the affair with James Halden . |
| 16 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 17 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 18 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 19 | His eyes were still lingering on the curves hidden by the black material that caught and shimmered in the light as she moved . |
| 20 | Someone threw a bunch of red roses , which he caught and put on the bar . |
| 21 | Those soldiers not incorporated into the FAA were meant to be disarmed and demobilized by the time the new army was established . |
| 22 | The Shadowlands crumbled and disappeared below the hungry waves . |
| 23 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 24 | Council officers conducted a survey to see where it could be usefully installed and decided on the railway centre and museum in North Road , Civic Theatre and booking office , Tubwell Row museum and offices at Houndgate . |
| 25 | Cornelius swung open the parlour door without knocking and strode into the room . |
| 26 | The fear of future unemployment , he believed , was exaggerated and existed at the moment " as a heavy legacy of dictatorship " . |
| 27 | Himmler winced and said to the girl , ‘ Leave us . |
| 28 | Dave spun the truck round and we crashed and bumped along the rough track . |
| 29 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
| 30 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |