Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both got dressed , quickly and silently , and then tiptoed out of the bedroom and down the white painted wooden staircase . |
| 2 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 3 | Simply pass the end of the yarn through the threader and down the hollow tube , attach the weight , and away you go , in moments you have a length of cord ready to use however you wish . |
| 4 | She made her way through the village and out the other side , then pulled over into a gateway by a field and cried her eyes out . |
| 5 | Mildred squeezed through the gap and set off as fast as possible along the corridor and down the spiral staircase to the yard . |
| 6 | Cranston made the man repeat the message as he reluctantly took than out of the main hall and up the wide , spacious stairs to one of the duke 's private chambers . |
| 7 | The mix is pumped gently down the inner tube , out through the bottom and up the outer tube . |
| 8 | Formal speeches were made by practically every one present , and after each speech one had to have a toast and down the requisite amount of liquour after clinking glasses and saying ‘ gambei ’ ( ‘ empty your glass ’ ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The blast crashes through the windows and straight through the building and out the other side . |
| 10 | Using the tip of your index finger , spread the bead of silicone which has been pushed out by adjoining panels into a rounded seal ( see diagram six ) around the base and up the vertical joints . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's have it in the sitting-room , ’ Miss Honey said , picking up the tray and leading the way out of the kitchen and down the dark little tunnel into the room at the front . |
| 12 | She walked past Ivy Cottage and down the narrow roadway . |
| 13 | This creeps across the shelf and down the continental slope , spreading along the sea-bed ; much of it is formed over the shelves of the Weddell and Ross bights , and from there it spreads far northward into the northern hemisphere . |
| 14 | He walked out of the room and down the broad staircase . |
| 15 | We walked on until we reached an unlit stretch of the Corniche , then climbed over a low wall and down the short slope to the river 's edge where we were out of sight of the sentries . |
| 16 | He glanced sideways , his gaze travelling from her honey-blonde head and down the violet cashmere serape which topped a black turtle-neck sweater and pencil-slim leggings . |
| 17 | Gravellier felt as if the eyes looked straight into his head and out the other side again . |
| 18 | Sam had blood on his white jacket and down the white ruffles . |
| 19 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 20 | Willie placed the mug carefully on to the table and made his way nervously out of the door and down the small dark passageway . |
| 21 | She started the engine and turned the jeep so that its tyres squealed , then drove back down the drive and down the pretty hillside , wanting only to be somewhere by herself to sit and mourn . |
| 22 | FROM WHICHEVER direction you approach Mothecombe , whether along the winding wooded valley beside the ever widening River Erme , or down the road from Battisborough Cross and through the clumps of hydrangeas , or by sea around Butcher 's Cove to its sandy bay and up the secret combe strewn with bluebells and daffodils , the first sight of it takes your breath away . |
| 23 | I did n't know what he was talking about but I dutifully obeyed and we trailed the shambling figure as he made his way drunkenly out through a postern gate and down the steep , narrow alleyways of Nottingham . |
| 24 | For many years our brethren of the turf have been making sure of the accuracy of their finishes ( as well as the propriety of conduct around the bend and down the straight ) by employing photographic scrutiny . |
| 25 | I have to get Bernard into Marxism and out the other side . |
| 26 | But there again you you just let it go in one ear and out the other ear . |
| 27 | Despite having told them that , it 's obviously gone in one ear and out the other ear . |
| 28 | We set off through the lovely village of Stonethwaite and up the steep woodland path towards Great Crag . |
| 29 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 30 | ‘ You ca n't go out like that , ’ said Wendy to Apricot when she was four , ‘ it 's freezing , ’ and little Apricot , in nothing but vest and pants , ran straight out into the street and down the long suburban road to the small playground which a benign council had made for the children in the sharp triangle of land where the railway line intersected the water-purifying plant . |