Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 2 | Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate . |
| 3 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 4 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 5 | Riven 's slung arm hampered him , and he pulled the sling off irritably and stuffed it down the front of his jerkin , moving his arm in circles . |
| 6 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 7 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 8 | The corpse 's bracelet was beginning to squeal ; Fox dragged it off and flung it down the stairwell ; she did n't hear it land . |
| 9 | Ian shook himself free from his bunk , pulled on his flannels and swung himself up the companionway and on to the deck . |
| 10 | He gave a brief nod , and swung himself down the companionway . |
| 11 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 12 | The second policeman managed to get a shot off in panic , but before he could take aim properly , one of the skinheads smashed his shoulder with a baseball bat and knocked him down the aisle steps . |
| 13 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |
| 14 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 15 | The headlights of another car swung across the central reservation and followed him down the Friedrich Engels Strasse . |
| 16 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 17 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 18 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 19 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 20 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 21 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 22 | He wrote not one memo about it but , by his estimate , as many as five , and sent them up the line . |
| 23 | At the end of January Pop decided to go south to our villages , and sent us up the Irrawaddy to Maymyo . |
| 24 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 25 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 26 | The landlord then relented in part and gave her back the keys to the bedsit . |
| 27 | I stole the father and gave Him back the son ! ’ |
| 28 | In May of last year the organisers signed 30 bands and hired a 100 seat ship and floated it down the Volga River , the largest in European Russia , holding 10 open-air concerts in big cities along the way . |
| 29 | I lent him my air rifle and aimed it out the window and there was this car going by and he went and he smashed the back windscreen I was saying , You fucking dick . |
| 30 | When her mother died Constance had turned slightly vegetarian and announced that she would never have any children since her mum had had ten and put her off the whole idea , and she gave away the chickens . |