Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had just finished an article about pawnshops , the meat of which had been supplied by Rose , who had come round again and invited Sally-Anne to tea at the Buildings . |
| 2 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 3 | I came home later and found Kelly shaken . |
| 4 | Assuming he was murdered , assuming that the murderer went first into the kitchen , then he could have crept back silently and attacked Berowne from behind . |
| 5 | What if his Mum came back unexpectedly and found Lee in the house ? |
| 6 | ‘ My guess — it 's no more than that — is that somebody came around earlier and told Mrs Tanner that there 'd be a couple of hundred quid in it for her if you showed up . |
| 7 | At the top of the next gradient , the line crossed over the railway by some timbered cottages and then turned right again and descended Ringstead Road which was narrow and on a steep gradient . |
| 8 | Even in the relegation season the attendance averages were above 18,000 ( unlike those at Roker Park which frequently drop even quicker than did Marco Gabbiadini 's reputation at Crystal Palace ) . |
| 9 | She turned round slowly and looked Jake in the eye . |
| 10 | I turned round quickly and saw Greta Ross . |
| 11 | He walked away then and left Artemis trying to puzzle out what her father meant by putting her mother in the past tense . |
| 12 | And then Jimmy straightened , stepped quickly forward and grabbed Duvall 's arm … headbutting him with a loud smack ! |
| 13 | The democracy movement had been brutally suppressed in 1989 but idealism and popular opposition bubbled up again and found allies in the younger generation of Communist leaders that followed the death of Deng Xiaoping . |
| 14 | Jimmy pulled away again and joined Gilbert and Frye at the windows . |
| 15 | The test certainly covers , and therefore condemns unequivocally , the American dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; it does , however , not deal as absolutely as did Pope John in Pacem in Terris with all possible aspects of modern war or even with every possible use of nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | Evidence of extent of planning programmes varied as widely as did descriptions of training undertaken . |
| 17 | This system worked very slowly and made secrecy virtually impossible : it has been calculated that in all some 2,000 people may have had some influence , direct or indirect , on the functioning of this cumbersome machinery . |
| 18 | er pie , chips and peas , hot actually , bread roll and butter , for one ninety nine , I was n't half pleased , well that just suit us cos it , we would have gone somewhere else and had coffee and a cake it would of cost you , one fifty each |
| 19 | My friend went on ahead and told Mum what had happened and Dad , after leaving work , came out to meet me . |
| 20 | Those who travelled went further still and discovered Greece , but it too is ‘ classical ’ and altered the decoration of Palladian houses rather than their design . |
| 21 | Oh it started in the end , I think it was the er starter motor , but I went home again and took Mandy 's car instead , because I thought I do n't want it to play up tonight , you know , in the car park so I 'll have to check it out tomorrow afternoon . |
| 22 | She looked up again and saw Simon 's eyes were shrinking , his gaze shifting , avoiding hers . |
| 23 | She looked up sharply and saw Felipe standing on his balcony next door , half hidden by shadows . |
| 24 | He looked back briefly and saw Pion watching him . |
| 25 | ’ She looked round wildly and saw Alice 's face , red and stupid with laughter . |
| 26 | She looked round once and saw Adam stumbling after her with Liban , his face set in a wild , burning stare . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back . |
| 28 | Willie leaned nervously forward and touched Sammy 's fur . |
| 29 | He parried almost mechanically , his eyes leaving Adam 's face only by swift , flickering glances ; and suddenly he leaned hard forward and caught Adam 's blade on his own , and with a fierce turn of wrist and elbow wrenched the weapon half out of a shocked and bruised hand . |
| 30 | He leaned forward quickly and took hold of a white bishop icing it one black square further forward , in front of his king . |