Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edna often took Celia down there , carefully going first and waiting while the little girl slid or scrambled down the awkward parts of the cliff into her waiting arms . |
| 2 | The curtains were still pulled and he placed one of the packages of groceries on the table , holding the other to his side as he went across the room and whipped back the heavy green curtains . |
| 3 | I saw the barrels begin to spin and that 's when I snatched up Barry and whipped out the trusty Smith and West Wittering . |
| 4 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 5 | At the next trick , I continued my strategy of playing Clubs and led out the 9 . |
| 6 | They came instead upon another of Whipple 's scouting parties , under Lieutenant S.M. Rains , and wiped out the entire twelve-man detachment . |
| 7 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 8 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 9 | Then I returned to the tinker camp and sought out the same woman . |
| 10 | We reached the much photographed Nape 's Needle and skimmed up the short , yet difficult , chimney of boot-worn rock . |
| 11 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 12 | Lacking axes or crampons we 'd kicked steps up the snowy approach gully the afternoon before and checked out the devious ladders and chains forming the descent from the summit . |
| 13 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 14 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 15 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |
| 16 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 17 | Taken by surprise and fear of the other the boy lost his balance and tumbled down the grassy bank towards the stranger but to the boy 's incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air . |
| 18 | She balled her fists and fought down the growing desolation inside her . |
| 19 | He opened his coat and got out the ten-shilling note from his wallet and the coins from his trouser pocket . |
| 20 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |
| 21 | The two Senussi soldiers were sent off on a recce and reported back the following day that there was no checkpoint on the road leading into the town . |
| 22 | The right hon. Gentleman ignores the fact that I head a Government who have cut interest rates seven times in the past 12 months , halved inflation in a year and built up the best industrial relations in half a century . |
| 23 | Only 16ยท5 per cent of the inhabitants of Pimhill Hundred were exempted from payment of the hearth tax in 1672 , and though many cottagers remained near the poverty line all their lives others prospered a little and moved up the social scale . |
| 24 | The clerk stretched and sucked in the clear morning air . |
| 25 | Snipe do n't sing , they only drum their wings , she remembered , as she cut through the thread-like neck , and holding the bird 's head by its absurdly long beak , crunched through the white skull and sucked out the strange delicious brains within it . |
| 26 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 27 | Quickly he went down the ladder , crossed the kitchen and snatched up the top one of a pile of washed sacks from behind the kitchen door . |
| 28 | Impetus and the driving weight told , and the wedge , only a little misshapen now , crashed through and bore down the few extra yards upon the waiting English . |
| 29 | At Burford , they left the main road and headed down the sloping High Street . |
| 30 | Well , we did n't have much luck out in the open because the rabbits saw or heard or smelt us coming a mile off and bolted down the nearest hole , even though we were mute and trying to stay down wind ( the wind kept switching direction in little gusts ) . |