Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 2 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 3 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 4 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 5 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 6 | The first is nine pages of typed script and took her seventeen hours to do . |
| 7 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 8 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 9 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 10 | His return fire lifted Weaver off his feet and flung him two yards backwards , to sprawl at Bodie 's feet as Bodie came racing through the side garden . |
| 11 | The grandparents completely dominated the boy and gave him high levels of attention for his difficult behaviour . |
| 12 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 13 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 14 | Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure . |
| 15 | Poppy had managed to gather quite a collection of workmen 's boots , so I went to the pet shop and bought her some toys , which she loved playing with . |
| 16 | Eranio 's superbly struck 31st-minute goal gave them victory over Portuguese champions Porto and made it four triumphs out of four in semi-final group B. |
| 17 | Then Greta Ross took my mother into a room and asked her more questions . |
| 18 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 19 | Penry took out his wallet and handed her some notes . |
| 20 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 21 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 22 | ‘ The Master took them quietly from his person and told him such things were not allowed to be introduced into the workhouse , he then placed himself in a fighting attitude and threatened to knock the Master 's teeth down his throat , thereby setting bad examples to others ’ |
| 23 | Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week . |
| 24 | Certain shareholders sold their shares to a take-over bidder , received the purchase price and gave him irrevocable proxies to vote on their behalf , but , in the light of the articles , transfers were not to be lodged for registration . |
| 25 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 26 | He lost his temper , tied up the dog and shot him 11 times . |
| 27 | Neil said : ‘ I chased the robber and tackled him several times . |
| 28 | The ancient superstition is that the water gods required a sacrifice to keep them content , and the church later named wells after saints and called them holy wells . |
| 29 | The florist came up earlier but she was asleep , and he did n't even come into the room , just put his head round the door and left her some flowers ; the night nurse has put them out in the corridor . |
| 30 | It got more painful — so I went to a different doctor , who said it was an infected sebaceous cyst and gave me stronger antibiotics . |