Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short pause to watch us , she passed on surrounded by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and other local dignitaries . |
| 2 | He will implement procedures laid down to comply with the Company 's duty of care and will liaise with the Group Environmental Manager on such issues . |
| 3 | Some of the unskilled youngsters drafted in to help with the decorating did not . |
| 4 | Swam down to sniff at the trembling . |
| 5 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 6 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 7 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 8 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 9 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 10 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 11 | He was forcefully kicked in his stomach , and bent over groaning with the pain . |
| 12 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 13 | The Land Rover pulled into the ambulance unloading bay at the hospital and then moved off to wait in the staff car park while Donaldson took Mrs Balanchine to the men 's ward . |
| 14 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 15 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 16 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 17 | What is anatomical basis of this orientation selectivity ? ( personal communication ) suggests an answer which is reminiscent of that proposed by to account for the ability of octopuses to recognize spatial patterns . |
| 18 | Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England . |
| 19 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |
| 20 | We visited the Legion 's museum the following day and wandered round looking at the different flags of the units which had fought all over the world for 150 years . |
| 21 | We treated each other within our little group humanely and normally , and passed over thinking about the others . |
| 22 | Diana and Charles stooped down to search through the clothes . |
| 23 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 24 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 25 | This morning Betty — my cleaner — came in bursting with the news that there was a brass plate outside . |
| 26 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 27 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
| 28 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 29 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
| 30 | She dawdled along to look into the garden of 45 . |