Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole dinghy was jammed and sucked in under the stem , then rolled over , held fast by her steel mast which would not snap . |
| 2 | We reached the gateway and turned in under the adobe arch with the name Hda LUCINDA plaster-embossed in large letters . |
| 3 | She took it outside into the wood and walked around under the trees . |
| 4 | Instantly they took advantage and leapt in under the hesitating staff but as they did so two other shafts struck in quick succession , Allen 's second and Marian 's first . |
| 5 | I took a pile of the French and American magazines that lay on a table in the corner and went out under the colonnade . |
| 6 | Ras Makonnen governed Harar until his death in 1906 and there his son Tafari was born and grew up under the enlightened administration of his eminent father ; he was thirteen when his father died . |
| 7 | The final meeting took place on Nov. 21 in Havana , Cuba , of the Joint Monitoring Commission ( JMC ) on south western Africa , comprising representatives from Angola , Cuba , Namibia , and South Africa and set up under the Brazzaville Protocol of Dec. 13 , 1988 [ see p. 36380 ] to oversee the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 435/78 , on Namibian independence and the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola . |