Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tears came then with the tearing sobs that racked Hari and set up a trembling within her as though she had the ague . |
| 2 | Mandeville fished in his purse and brought out a silver coin , rolling it in his fingers . |
| 3 | Catherine opened her purse and took out a coin . |
| 4 | Athelstan dug in his purse and took out a silver coin . |
| 5 | Athelstan dipped into his purse and drew out a coin . |
| 6 | He felt in his purse and threw down a couple of copper coins . |
| 7 | He was caught on the sciatic nerve and suffered only a dead-leg and an abrasion . |
| 8 | The gardener narrowed long , grey-blue eyes and made never a move . |
| 9 | As a response to popular demands for greater democracy , Habyarimana in November announced plans to abandon one-party rule and set up a review commission , whose brief was to make recommendations on the country 's future political system . |
| 10 | Pearce returned a hard stare , pushed himself from his seat and held out a hand to Rohmer . |
| 11 | The next thing he knew — by this time he would have the undivided attention of the entire bar — one of the Americans tore his fur hat off and screamed , ‘ OK , craphead , where is he ? ’ while one of the bobbies reached into the open back seat and pulled out an attaché case that he had to spend an hour telling them he had never seen before . |
| 12 | He reached into the back seat and picked up a briefcase , one of the old upright ones schoolmasters used to favour . |
| 13 | Keegan and Newcastle , though , have other problems to solve : like how United lost their pattern after the break and mustered just a couple of halfchances . |
| 14 | Other drivers had taken a break and carried off a number of her fellow spectators , but Simon had yet to appear . |
| 15 | The US-led Coalition poured in troops and aircraft and carved out an area where , so the theory went , the Kurds could find respite from Saddam 's savagery . |
| 16 | Done it easy , shoved a gun into his mouth and squeezed off a ScumStopper through the roof of his mouth , exploded his brain . |
| 17 | He turned to the Highlanders and stretched out a hand . |
| 18 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 19 | Immediately another shot cracked from the doorway and ricocheted off a rock a couple of yards to his right . |
| 20 | In March 1918 the Unionist leaders agreed to open up negotiations with Lloyd George 's supporters and set up a subcommittee of Law , Long . |
| 21 | The cancer research computer system crashed , halting vital research and ran up a bill of £10,000 making the calls . |
| 22 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 23 | Paige smiled her thanks and pulled out a chair , yet before she sat down she could n't resist the urge to cast a furtive glance over her shoulder . |
| 24 | ‘ Whichever they choose will be rehydrated with melted snow and cooked over a Primus stove , ’ says Mr Welsby . |
| 25 | Instead , she began to cry , reached for her handbag and took out a handkerchief , sniffed into it , looked at me sweetly , then embraced me . |
| 26 | ‘ Then went Samson to Gaza and saw there a harlot , and went in unto her . ’ |
| 27 | He conquered Cyprus in three months and established there a base of operations for the Christian forces in the East . |
| 28 | She had n't eaten anything , just pushed a piece of ham around her plate to placate Penman and crumpled up a muffin . |
| 29 | After a supper of pea soup — ‘ One pea each , ’ the duty corporal quipped — and bully beef , he was quartered — and learning new words by the minute — in a large gymnasium that temporarily housed four hundred beds , each a mere two feet in width and set only a foot apart . |
| 30 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |