Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] shadows " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katherine sat in the sitting room , memories creeping in with the shadows . |
| 2 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 3 | Hugh asked after his father-in-law had wandered off into the shadows at the end of the terrace and they heard his stick tapping along the stone floors . |
| 4 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 5 | For a second she thought they must have turned the other way , and then she saw them again , riding through the trees , the sunlight striking them before they moved off into the shadows . |
| 6 | Li Yuan lay on his back in the huge bed , staring up into the shadows ; the woman beside him was sleeping , her leg against his own , warm and strangely comforting . |
| 7 | He stared up into the shadows . |
| 8 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 9 | A friendly palm flashes up from the shadows , like a pink glove . |
| 10 | He felt a need to discover who he was , and to write directly about that , and about his books , to step out of the shadows . |
| 11 | A tall thin man came out of the shadows at the bottom of the stone steps . |
| 12 | Jackie was off again , gliding in and out of the shadows . |
| 13 | At that moment a slim figure flung itself out of the shadows to tumble Lefevre 's giant adversary from his feet . |
| 14 | Christ , what 's that ? ’ she shrieked , as fat Umberto , clearly drunk and absolutely terrified , lurched out of the shadows brandishing a gun . |
| 15 | Suddenly , from out of the shadows , a man ran towards my car , yanked open the passenger door and jumped in , taking me completely by surprise . |
| 16 | TITIA Sutherland 's OUT OF THE SHADOWS ( Black Swan £5.99 ) deals tenderly with the relationship of a girl and an ageing woman , as well as bringing in a ghost story and wartime tragedy . |
| 17 | The machine slid to a halt inside the courtyard , and Hawk stepped out of the shadows . |
| 18 | As he powered the jet down , a yellow Lada came out of the shadows and towards him . |
| 19 | For the next 10 years it basked in its monopoly , with radio still supreme , as TV came slowly out of the shadows . |
| 20 | But by piecing together all these different kinds of information , it should be possible , if only very imperfectly , to bring out of the shadows the central actors in the whole story , the women in the composing rooms . |
| 21 | Category B was jointly won by Biomedical Photography by John P Vetter ( Focal Press ) and Out of the Shadows : Hershel , Talbot and the Invention of Photography by Larry Schaaf ( Yale University Press ) . |
| 22 | Four undertaker 's men slid out of the shadows of the vestry and , picking up the coffin , bore it up the aisle . |
| 23 | He had reached the corner of his street and was searching in his pocket for his key , when a dark figure came out of the shadows and crossed the road towards him . |
| 24 | The hare came very slowly out of the shadows of the tunnel . |
| 25 | He stepped out of the shadows , shouted , and waved his arms to attract attention . |
| 26 | A shoe like a heavy old bullet thrown out of the shadows , and skilfully caught , off-balance and one-handed ; windmilling trousers trapped by the foot and then kicked up on to the leg ; that serpent necktie . |
| 27 | He sat , and at once a page came out of the shadows with a tray which contained cups and a flask of wine . |
| 28 | With the words had come the fleeting impression of dark , sinuous creatures who could slither out of the shadows and wind their cold , serpentine fingers about you , so that you were trapped , who could twine about your entire body , so that you were smothered and suffocating from the cold embrace … |
| 29 | Out of the shadows , appeared a grotesque statue of the devil ( thought to be Asmodeus ) supporting a benitier of angels . |
| 30 | Over my own shoulder , I saw his face come out of the shadows . |