Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ He checked off the targets as they flared . |
| 2 | She then took control and taxied off the runway as three Canadian Air Force F11s blasted into the sky on a training mission farther to the north . |
| 3 | What about that child who had screamed in Act Two , and the hissing that had followed … and the outbreak of sobbing when Tinkerbell drank the poison and Peter announced she was dying … and the sigh that had rippled … yes , rippled through the theatre when Peter , alone on the rock in the lagoon , heard the mermaid 's melancholy cry as the moon began to rise over Never-Never Land . |
| 4 | In the Persian Wars , however , the Boiotian League had evidently not ordered a general policy , because Plataia and Thespiai fought for the Greeks whereas Thebes medised , a stain she was never to wipe out . |
| 5 | She made for the stand where her umbrella was kept . |
| 6 | The VC-7/V-1000 was scrapped , and the Boeing 707 rode through the gap as pure jets proved both economic and attractive to passengers in spite of the Comet 1 disasters . |
| 7 | Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems . |
| 8 | SHARE prices and the pound rose during the night as election results showed a better-than-expected performance by the Conservatives . |
| 9 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
| 10 | Forester put his flashlight to each of the front windows in turn and peered through the glass as the distorted beam slid around the rooms . |
| 11 | This was the situation which Morgan described for the Iroquois when several tribes get together , not any more on the basis of kinship or marriage , but on the basis of confederacy . |
| 12 | A fresh gust of rain bounced off the bonnet as he pulled away from the kerb . |
| 13 | He never beat about the bush when something was annoying him , he was never afraid to give it to you straight , to say exactly what he thought . |
| 14 | Behind him the dragon roared and crashed through the bushes as it tried to turn around , but Hrun was running , running , with his gaze fixed on Liartes and a dead branch in his hands . |
| 15 | Outside , the storm howled about the house as though a pack of wild wolves were trying to get in . |
| 16 | An interesting point of law occurred during the test when New Zealand scored their first try through no.8 Zinzan Brooke following the award of a penalty five metres from the home goalline . |
| 17 | He moved through the crowd as the noise restarted . |
| 18 | We bounced against the roof as the car banged in and out of each one . |
| 19 | He moved behind the dog as he spoke , and Theda could see that Hector had caught a front foot in a trap . |
| 20 | Tempers in the kitchens rose with the temperature as ovens burned and broth smiled on . |
| 21 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 22 | David Rosen came to the steps and peered into the darkness as though into a room where he had no right to be . |
| 23 | He peered into the binnacle as though checking that no one had stolen the compass . |
| 24 | There was no doubt he crashed into the sea as I watched him hit , but I did not get a confirmation of this as there was no one else to see it and R.D.F. did n't seem to have much coverage up that way . ’ |
| 25 | According to ancient Gothic legend , duergars sprang from the maggots eating the flesh of the giant YMIR , and fled into the ground when the first light broke . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's on its way , ’ he shouted above the hammering as she jumped out of the car . |
| 27 | He waded into the sea until the waters lapped against his knees while Leoncico splashed happily along behind him — perhaps reflecting how far he and his master had come since both were smuggled in a flour barrel on a boat to Darién . |
| 28 | However , on November 2nd , 1906 , all this was in the cloudy future , for at a meeting in the Town Hall a new possibility emerged , bluntly headlined in the Standard as ‘ Proposed Municipal Golf Links ’ . |
| 29 | She watched the ruins take Tallis , the walls and the stones becoming trees again , responding to a glow of green that radiated from the woman as she sat within her nest of rags . |
| 30 | Though Dr Runcie and his party could not take Holy Communion at the papal mass , he had earlier celebrated the eucharist at the Anglican church in Rome after three demonstrators rose from the congregation as he ascended the pulpit ; the visit has been dogged by protests from supporters of the Rev Ian Paisley . |