Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [coord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 2 | By this time Clever Folly had shaken off all opposition and proceeded to break the course record by 4.7 seconds in spite of 4lb overweight . |
| 3 | Ideally , you will have come through this week and found that your liking for tea , coffee , chocolate , and cola is now influenced by how much they like you . |
| 4 | People could see why I wanted to work in that way and did what they could to make it possible . |
| 5 | Although the requirement of intervention in the nasal oxygen group was halved , the most extreme example of hypoxia occurred in this group and led to the only termination of the procedure . |
| 6 | Again er even frosting blast when even other trees er specific trees are erm alright , it may have been caught in that draught and set it back a little , you never know . |
| 7 | The man eyed Doyle contemptuously then muttered something to himself and moved to another table and sat down . |
| 8 | The Faverolles factory responded to this challenge and continued to break production records , while played their part with large increases in muesli , crunchy and pillow tonnages for the continental market . |
| 9 | ( In fact , the corporation had been wrongly reported on this score and had issued no such edict at all . ) |
| 10 | As to nomes , I have data that says nomes originated on another world and came here thousands of years ago . |
| 11 | I trembled at that nakedness and read : |
| 12 | He cannoned against grey-quilted bodies , his breath came in sobs and the chill caught at that breath and sucked out little gauze puffs of air . |
| 13 | The Conservative party 's attitude is epitomised by that statement and followed through by the Audit Commission . |
| 14 | And the buildings looked as derelict as if they had all been lifted by some force and dropped again . |
| 15 | Harry and Fleury conferred about this problem and decided that they would club together and see if they could afford to buy some hermetically sealed provisions when there was an auction , though with the prices that food fetched now in private barter they were not very hopeful . |
| 16 | One more adventurous youngster searched through some seaweed and found a crab . |
| 17 | Oh , Oh , I took the dog for a walk last tonight , and there 's some skid marks down the end of Crouch Road the there 's the and then they 'd taken half the road out and you can see someone 's done a wheely , and they 've gone in and done like this business and shot off ! |
| 18 | So he came along this morning and picked it up ! |
| 19 | And she made a little dint in the ground which filled with some water and became a little pool for the snake to drink out . |
| 20 | It was something they recognised in each other and shared . |
| 21 | The 10.0 and 4.8 kb M.spretus -specific fragments cosegregated in this analysis and defined the Oct-11a locus . |
| 22 | In cross examination he accepted that there was no such reference in any report he had written in this case and agreed that quote , I do n't think I 've discussed Cheshire Homes before today , unquote . |
| 23 | The dealer moved to another firm and stuffed the client with £12,000 worth of a speculative American stock which ultimately proved a dud . |
| 24 | Now what would have happened if her broker came to this convention and heard about their disease , and two years ago sold her a disease policy , that would have given her two hundred thousand pounds , on the diagnosis of the disease . |
| 25 | The last word must go to Alfred Russel Wallace , who so brilliantly understood the forces acting on this distribution and wrote over a century ago : |
| 26 | The branches above murmured to each other and refracted the light from the street lamps into kaleidoscopic shapes on the pavement , shades of concrete grey , forming and reforming , overlapping and separating . |
| 27 | His lines are very economical , she said to M. Grimaud , who looked solidly startled at this view and spoke dismissively of women with three breasts , or single eyes , paintings more infantile than those of Cromagnon man . |
| 28 | The salesmen 's patter was good , polished at each performance and repeated daily as they attended different markets . |
| 29 | Nicholson himself was always moved by this story and felt affection that a man such as Hope could be so touched . |
| 30 | The geologist J. W. Powell argued against this view and sought to control all the west 's water in the name of scientific management . |