Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adj] and [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben stopped smiling and picked up his spade . |
| 2 | So Molly walked alone and ended up in front of another Martini painting in the Pinacoteca . |
| 3 | David wrenched free and went on furiously : ‘ Those women whose homes are sties , whose habits are bestial , who could n't raise a guinea-pig never mind a child — ’ he drew a deep , shuddering breath to steady himself , then continued more slowly . |
| 4 | As the girl tilted her face up to her tall mother her hat fell off and , the mother 's fingers clasping the head , the hair came loose and fell down the black coat like a cascade of shining water , as soft-looking as a swathe of new mown grass . |
| 5 | Skipper stopped dead and looked down on me with a definite ‘ What on earth are you doing there ? ’ look on his face . |
| 6 | Those days Rose dreaded and fretted through and it was a kind of peace to turn to the two girls and the boy . |
| 7 | Her body turned purple and broke out in enormous blisters . |
| 8 | The end of his black head-wrap hung loose and flapped over his shoulder , giving a clear view of his face . |
| 9 | THE nights were still so cold that icicles formed on the outside of the chutes that fed the water-mills , where the water churned white and spilled over . |
| 10 | No sooner was Neil in the air than the left gun panel in the upper wing surface came loose and stuck up in the air . |
| 11 | The visitors continued to search desperately for a late equaliser , but Ipswich dug deep and hung on to book a quarter-final tussle at home to Sheffield Wednesday next month . |
| 12 | This beautiful small cow is elegantly built with fine bones , a fine , clean head held alert and set off by gaily carried white horns which curve upwards , tapering to black tips , and which are quite long in proportion to the size of the animal . |
| 13 | Towards the edge of the wood , where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond , only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog 's mercury and oak-tree roots . |
| 14 | The man with the dog drew level and went by . |
| 15 | The cabby refused and grabbed him by the arm , at which point the robber pulled free and ran off . |
| 16 | Marcus went white and jerked round sharply to look at the figure behind him . |
| 17 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 18 | But too late , at another signal from Jean-Claude , the girl in the mack clutched her side and stumbled , then collapsed on the ground , and shuddering , turned over as the camera came close and moved out to hover over her face and catch her bitter smile as she died . |
| 19 | Frantic parents continued to hassle and swear and at last the stoat grew tired and bounded off into the cover of a pine tree windbreak . |
| 20 | The reason for the puzzling way in which the structure had deformed and broken up was thereby revealed and , since the static tests had shown that the structure was not fail-safe , the separation of the stabiliser in flight was satisfactorily explained . |
| 21 | Mark , of Southport , Lancs , said he found wires in the flex had short-circuited and burnt out . |
| 22 | A guest became suspicious and tipped off police who contacted her frantic mother , Janice . |
| 23 | The fireball became tiny and winked out . |
| 24 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 25 | An arm came loose and fell off , revealing scrunched up newsprint where there should have been ligament , bone and muscle . |
| 26 | Nails and Hoomey wriggled free and made off like hares and by the time the opposition had refocussed on Seb as main aggressor rather than Jazz a police car was cruising to a standstill alongside and a new element was introduced . |
| 27 | Alice went pale and looked down into her hollands . |
| 28 | Creggan grew nervous and glanced over his shoulder and up towards the trees above . |