Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 2 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 3 | Everyone dined together at a plain wooden table more suited to the kitchen or servants ' quarters than the guests ' dining room , and the fare was similarly lacking in charm . |
| 4 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 5 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 7 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 8 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 9 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 10 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 11 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 12 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 13 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 14 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 15 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 16 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 17 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 18 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 19 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ I agreed quickly without the faintest idea of what I was agreeing to . |
| 21 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 22 | He looked at me as though he had seen me somewhere before , but I passed by with a curt nod . |
| 23 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 24 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 25 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 26 | After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London . |
| 27 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 28 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 29 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 30 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |