Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 2 | Harry folded his arms , smiled as if he knew better and strolled about the room . |
| 3 | I jumped up suddenly and ran into the crowds of people in the dark . |
| 4 | Just then , a customer got up suddenly and hurried to the door . |
| 5 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 6 | Joseph tugged at his brother 's sleeve suddenly and nodded across the room . |
| 7 | The snow was falling thickly and poured past the window in blizzard proportions as the plane hurled itself into the Arctic night . |
| 8 | Constantly looking back , Richmann hurried inside and waved at the sentries . |
| 9 | His fingers dispensed with the buttons on the front of her dress and his hands , warm and firm and so , so clever , slipped inside and teased at the lace of her bra . |
| 10 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 11 | I careered down the snow-slope below and sat in the shelter of a boulder to watch Roger abseil down the ice pitch , coiled the ropes and climb carefully down to join me for a marvellously welcome brew under the Shelter Stone . |
| 12 | He held the parcel out and then let it fall , and it had time enough to turn lazily over before it landed with a solid smack on the terrace below and bounced towards the rail . |
| 13 | I went below and peered inside the cabin — a tiny fixed table with divan-type seats on either side . |
| 14 | Then he shifted impatiently and gestured to the drawing-room . |
| 15 | He insisted on trying to go it alone and lurched against the bannister where he hung on for dear life . |
| 16 | He rolled over , and spread his loosened limbs in the bed , he opened windows , he went to the Tate Gallery alone and looked at the dissolving blue and gold air of Turner 's Norham Castle . |
| 17 | I rolled out of bed at eight o'clock and went to the bathroom where I turned on the taps for a hot bath . |
| 18 | She rose swiftly and went to the cubicle , where a nurse was straightening the bed and she asked , ‘ Where are they taking him ? ’ |
| 19 | That night , they sat on the ice together and gazed at the sky . |
| 20 | Are you and sulphur together and looked at the the way in which they combined . |
| 21 | He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit . |
| 22 | The four youngsters — who went to school together and played in the same soccer team — died instantly . |
| 23 | They returned down a different hole and soon found a dry , empty burrow , where they curled up together and slept in the warmth of their own tired bodies . |
| 24 | The two catheters were taped together and passed through the nose into the stomach . |
| 25 | They turned away together and marched over the hills towards the estate . |
| 26 | Two weeks later the same students were called together and reminded of the questions they had been unable to answer . |
| 27 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 28 | Then the Annamite woman began to sob and he relented at last and raised himself from her ; still moaning quietly to herself she scrambled from the cot onto the dirt floor , gathered her scraps of clothing together and fled past the American woman into the rain . |
| 29 | But the solid Swiss world was no phantom , nor would the solar system cease forging steadily through interstellar space : the sun did swing away from our casement , for all that Mary said , for all our forgetting of time , and the baby awoke and cried ; so that Mary , giving me a langourous look , dressed herself carelessly and went down the stairs . |
| 30 | In effect it was a return to the conditions of mid-Silurian times , with a corresponding decrease in provincialism , but it lasted longer and led to the fantastic flowering of the Frasnian reefs . |