Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laid down the printing frame that she held . |
| 2 | Aunt Tossie had a faint dribble of desire at the corners of her mouth when , at length , she laid down the slate pencil and rose from her chair to face Mrs Geary , her companion in what was to be an immortal triumph : its finale that most acceptable of puddings before diets and regimens were conceived : a really beautiful Trifle . |
| 3 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 4 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 5 | An attempt was made where possible to aspirate gastric juice using a Teflon catheter passed down the suction biopsy channel . |
| 6 | Applied down the Job Centre . |
| 7 | The pair moved down the centre line and halted square and dead centre . |
| 8 | Peter Lunnen , who took the call , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that as he shouted down the telephone line to Mrs Wilks , he heard her speaking in the distance . |
| 9 | Caught down the leg side , he was n't going to walk , he waited for umpire Bird , and that 's the Lawrence delighted with England of course too , DaSilva , caught down the leg side , a good catch there by Russell and Sri Lanka now a hundred and nineteen for four and DaSilva is out caught Russell , bowled Lawrence for eighteen . |
| 10 | Caught down the leg side , he was n't going to walk , he waited for umpire Bird , and that 's the Lawrence delighted with England of course too , DaSilva , caught down the leg side , a good catch there by Russell and Sri Lanka now a hundred and nineteen for four and DaSilva is out caught Russell , bowled Lawrence for eighteen . |
| 11 | All he 's worried about is getting wickets , and he 's , as I think I said yesterday he starts to feel a bit frustrated with his lax control , the ball flows all over the place and then somehow or other he 's got at the , the real quality batsmen in the opposition side , he 's got DaSilva out , might have been a slightly lucky dismissal caught down the leg side and he 's got him out and he 's done that in every match he 's played , he 's given away runs pretty rapidly , but he keeps getting vital wickets as well . |
| 12 | Pumfrey let down the car window . |
| 13 | Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ? |
| 14 | After two years of hectic creative activity , Jill Garner left the FYT team where , as Support and Resources Officer , she headed up the Jubilee Year programme and Development Appeal . |
| 15 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 16 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 17 | Through sheer organisational brilliance , Barés and de Rose had , by mid-April , built up the Verdun air strength to 226 machines ; a concentration which Falkenhayn , with his policy of security-on-all-fronts was unable , or unwilling , to emulate . |
| 18 | phoned up the funeral arranger and say my mum 's died , |
| 19 | Markby snatched up the telephone receiver lying on the table in the hall . |
| 20 | She slipped on a thin gauze nightgown , and , despite the clammy , stifling heat of the night , she could n't help shivering with exhaustion as she drew back the bed cover , and crawled gratefully between the thin cotton sheets . |
| 21 | Drew back the shower curtain , |
| 22 | The depth of the cut could be adjusted by means of a turn-screw which drew back the base plate . |
| 23 | He drew out the phrase book and flicked through the pages . |
| 24 | Er when the building trade or that company moved out the north east . |
| 25 | Later on we found out the perimeter fence had been burnt down and the festival is banned here next year . |
| 26 | At home , Uncle Vernon ferreted out the laundry box from under the stairs and dusted off the streamers and the loops of coloured paper . |
| 27 | A parent who was taking her children to school noted down the number plate . |
| 28 | Wheezes of laughter wafted down the telephone line . |
| 29 | They were embarked at Leith and sailed down the east coast to Gravesend where they were transferred to another ship . |
| 30 | During the next three years , the Beagle sailed down the east coast of South America , rounded Cape Horn and came north again up the coast of Chile . |