Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 2 | At last Cranston belched , stretched , and beamed round the tavern , snapping his fingers to call Talbot over . |
| 3 | It was a warm and friendly night , and the sea swished and whispered on the sand . |
| 4 | He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell . |
| 5 | The thin figure leaned over and whispered in the sleeper 's ear . |
| 6 | Duncan looked at the long green grass and , as he looked , the wind blew strong and the tall , green grasses swayed and whispered in the wind . |
| 7 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 8 | He dashed across the garden and pounced upon the garden gate , pressing the latch with his big feet . |
| 9 | a fat woman … frightened and fainted in the street ; |
| 10 | And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once . |
| 11 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 12 | ’ … if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . ’ |
| 13 | 9 – ( 1 ) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price is to be fixed by the valuation of a third party , and he can not or does not make the valuation , the agreement is avoided ; but if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . |
| 14 | She curled up in the darkest corner , pillowing her head on her arm , and clung to the memory of four hours before , when the time had stilled and she had been not , sweet tearing bliss … . |
| 15 | He crouched down and clung to the rail with his right hand and reached out with his left as if to punch a hole through the wall . |
| 16 | We watched the emergence of one moth ; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon , and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads . |
| 17 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 18 | There was the taste of death in the kiss , but she accepted the price with the prize , and clung to the bitterness and the bliss alike , knowing them for ever inseparable now . |
| 19 | A cold damp hung about the beechwood furniture and clung to the velour drapes . |
| 20 | A string of mucus hung from her left nostril and clung to the curve of her lipsticked mouth ; the waitresses kept looking across at the table . |
| 21 | Madge had offered to carry her bag but she drew away and clung to the bannister rail . |
| 22 | After 1998 , these figures start being ‘ phased down ’ by ½ per cent a year , so that anyone retiring after the year 2008 gets only 20 per cent ( one fifth ) of their relevant earnings , after they have been revalued and averaged over the whole of the working life . |
| 23 | After that , the days were marked by the offerings they took and laid on the stone , more cigarettes until their father began to suspect Mrs Turner who cleaned the house , fruit from the garden , a punnet of redcurrants which disappeared from the small basket . |
| 24 | Dozens of foreign seamen in the port have been questioned and fingerprinted in the search for her killer . |
| 25 | Finn lit a cigarette and lolled against the chest-of-drawers , which shifted under his weight . |
| 26 | Hauser hunched his large body in his chair and gazed into the distance . |
| 27 | Corbett and Ranulf , riding abreast , stopped and gazed at the chaos . |
| 28 | That night , they sat on the ice together and gazed at the sky . |
| 29 | She bent closer to the painting and gazed at the master 's signature . |
| 30 | Bragg looked up angrily , then walked to the window and gazed at the church tower beyond . |