Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the paper " in BNC.
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| 1 | The characters are formed from tiny dots of ink poked on to the paper . |
| 2 | He drove down to the paper 's office and presented a lamb , killed the night before , to the editor . |
| 3 | Presently the nurse came back with the paper . |
| 4 | Anyway , I put it in the paper , phoned in the paper and they said it 'd be at least a week or fortnight before so I did n't like but it never came out in the paper . |
| 5 | Years ago a man walked in to the paper and said he wanted to confess to a murder — and to prove it , he had sawn-off sections of the body with him in a carrier bag . ’ |
| 6 | He was in the middle of getting undressed as his brother walked in with the paper . |
| 7 | The father glanced down at the paper in his hand . |
| 8 | Pascoe glanced down at the paper to check the number . |
| 9 | The way to make NoS popular was to put lots of people in it They could be used to bring home the sort of things which should be exposed and campaigned about in the paper — like housing conditions , or unemployment . |
| 10 | Back in the village , she pulled up outside the paper shop , which turned out to double as a general store , and went in . |
| 11 | He stared down at the paper , repeating softly , ‘ You 'll be all right . |
| 12 | Kegan looked up from the paper he had been reading and looked a little hopefully at the faces in front of him . |
| 13 | Again he looked up from the paper and smiled conciliatingly at his audience . |
| 14 | Fakrid looked up from the paper and screamed : |
| 15 | Caroline looked up from the paper again . |
| 16 | All the goodness and virtue went out of the paper by his action . |
| 17 | The photographer got pissed off and went back to the paper and said they were uncooperative and really difficult , ’ says Houghton . |
| 18 | The Anti-Election Alliance is an umbrella grouping , largely energised by the Class War Federation , the direct-action movement that grew out of the paper Class War in the mid-eighties . |