Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor and Ace pounded breathlessly through the grotto and down the tunnel after Mait . |
| 2 | He seemed to sense her mood , drawing back a little as they went through the forward lock and up the cockpit steps . |
| 3 | We stayed first with Gary and Kaye ( Burns ) , who live near the top of Seatoun Heights with a stupendous view down the harbour and up the Hutt Valley . |
| 4 | Remarkably quickly , however , the last of the human tide ran from the house entrance and up the ramps of the rigs , which were now almost packed full . |
| 5 | The French Commando has been wounded in the thigh , the bullet passing in one side and out the other . |
| 6 | Rain firehosing in one side and out the other . |
| 7 | The Dawsons themselves had enthusiastically helped to heave it over a rut and up the slope to the garage . |
| 8 | He wrote : ‘ It is like a vast supermarket in which absentmindedly , yet intent on what we are doing , we push our shopping trolleys up one aisle and down the other , while death and alienation have the run of the place . ’ |
| 9 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 10 | The audience flowed in behind as Argyll and his tall , rawboned wife dragged Elizabeth , screaming , swearing , fighting every step , out of the hall and up the stair to the empty guest room next to his own . |
| 11 | It would have a job flattening that boisterous family , thought Joe as he carried the young woman through the passage and up the flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 12 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 13 | Flames melted a lead pipe and ignited leaking gas causing the fire to spread along the passageway and up the stairwell to the second floor . |
| 14 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 15 | Then they ran out of the saloon and up the backstairs as quickly as they could , to resume their game in the safety of the nursery . |
| 16 | They walked back through the kitchen and down the hallway to the front entrance of the house . |
| 17 | She went along the landing and down the staircase , still in a waking dream , crossing the hall and seeing Penman there , waiting to open the drawing-room door for her , as if it was someone she was watching perform , not herself but another being altogether . |
| 18 | And his breath too was warm against her cheek and down the back of her neck , making her spine tingle . |
| 19 | I still left Winston Street every morning for the long cycle ride through town and up the Banbury Road . |
| 20 | The ‘ chute is then pulled into a sausage , with that extra line from the release pin passing through the vent and down the parachute , leaving a few inches of line to spare . |
| 21 | The belly was covered in long piercing spikes , and I was going to fall on them any minute , and thousands of spikes would plunge into me — puncture me , penetrate my flesh — and out would pour my life 's blood , red and sticky , all down my body and down the elephant 's body and streakily into the waters of the pond . |
| 22 | In 1935 he was at Loe Agra , where there was more fierce fighting , and then on the Khajuri Plain and up the Khyber Pass . |
| 23 | She opened the window , climbed out of the room and down the ivy on the wall . |
| 24 | Pulling the cover up over her mother 's shoulders , Maura crept from the room and down the stain . |
| 25 | They went through Mill Hill Circus just a hundred yards behind the bleeper and up the slope to Five Ways Corner . |
| 26 | At the very least I had expected him to be physically frail and mentally chastened ; a boy worn out by his long addiction and frightened of the criminal charges that hung over him , but instead he came out of the limo and down the dock with the frisky energy of a puppy . |
| 27 | I guess I 'm in two or three days a week and out the rest . |
| 28 | The stone amplifies this and the energy emerges from the ground and up the stone in the form of a spiral having seven coils . |
| 29 | They slapped their way hastily along the wet pavements , into the main road , up one block and down the side-road that flanked the cinema . |
| 30 | A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring . |