Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His career as a musician failed to take off and in a fit of depression one night he got drunk before he was due to on stage at a trawlermen 's club in Hull . |
| 2 | Most of the hour Richard spent pacing up and down the corridor , stopping at windows to look out between the buildings at bare trees and transparent hedges . |
| 3 | I was sticky with mud , and my mind kept going over and over the extraordinary events of the afternoon and evening . |
| 4 | Moreover , while the engineers tended to work on or near the shop-floor , today 's scientific and technical professionals are just as likely to be located far from actual production . |
| 5 | And yet , almost against Henry 's will , the real suburb kept breaking in until among the paper houses you could smell the decaying leaves , the acrid exhaust of cars and hear the children shouting to each other under the huge sky on the common . |
| 6 | Forever Onward ! shouted me , and the man at the bus-stop went spinning round and round trying to reach the correct change in his left-side back pocket with his right had . |
| 7 | After they had been photographed , after the scene of crime team had swarmed in and over them , after the police surgeon and then a pathologist had done all that had to be done in that room , the bodies still stayed where they were . |
| 8 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 9 | Scottish champion Jim Mailer was not included in the main draw ; Bruce Flockhart had to pull out because of a leg injury ; and Gordon and Jillian Haldane withdrew because of a family bereavement . |
| 10 | By some freak of the acoustics his name seemed to echo round and round the chamber . |
| 11 | He felt inordinately pleased to be seeing , at last , the place where his wife had grown up and from which , until now , he had been excluded . |
| 12 | Lachlan heard rehearsed over and over his rages and violence . |
| 13 | She must face up to facts : her original project of family co-operation had fallen through because of her misjudgement . |
| 14 | From time to time somebody would burst into song or laughter , and some people continued to whisper on and off all through the night . |
| 15 | The experiment worked and by 1954 Raitz 's Horizon Holidays had taken off and by the end of the fifties he was offering holidays on the Costa Brava , the Costa del Sol , in Portugal , Minorca and Tangiers . |
| 16 | And Daphne had to lay off because of her period . |
| 17 | Word had got about as to why she had disappeared on compassionate leave and she began receiving many invitations for such recreational activities as were available : film shows , dances or simply a get-together in the local inn . |
| 18 | The system of setting limits to public spending had broken down because of the following : |
| 19 | Portia Forbes had come in and with a tray in her hand was studying the menu . |
| 20 | Tennants had lived in and around the village for many generations and had served the small community as farmers , millers and blacksmiths . |
| 21 | We 'd arrived and Mr Tuckett had driven off and within minutes I could be seen , from the street , through the open curtains , upstairs in a bedroom . |
| 22 | By 1968 , both eugenics journals had closed down and in 1989 the Eugenics Society was terminated . |
| 23 | Bolton refused to lie down and in the last kick of normal time a shot from Philliskirk cannoned off the crossbar . |