Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 2 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 3 | As Reid led the patient with the bloody head indoors , the white man turned to me , almost stopped me from going inside and said in an educated voice , ‘ Good morning , Doctor , and welcome to Koraloona . |
| 4 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 5 | The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University . |
| 6 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 7 | Without the slightest hesitation , he took two hops to the water , waded in and swam across the deep , still pool . |
| 8 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 9 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 10 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 11 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 12 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 13 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 14 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 15 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 16 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 17 | With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side . |
| 18 | Adam put the phone down and went to the front door . |
| 19 | I knelt down and went through the dead man 's clothing . |
| 20 | Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully . |
| 21 | Dorcas sat down and leaned against the yellow metal . |
| 22 | Nutty wound the window down and smiled in a civilized fashion . |
| 23 | They sat down and talked for a short time . |
| 24 | The disclosure of these plans forced a premature announcement that two plants — Cowley South and Llanelli Pressings — were to be run down and closed in the early 1990s with the loss of about 3,400 jobs . |
| 25 | The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that . |
| 26 | Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping-paper . |
| 27 | Ranulf squatted down and pointed to the small indentation of a boot . |
| 28 | He rolled over , and spread his loosened limbs in the bed , he opened windows , he went to the Tate Gallery alone and looked at the dissolving blue and gold air of Turner 's Norham Castle . |
| 29 | and the warden was there in her dressing gown trying to get her up and she could n't get her up this morning , so she had to get help , one of the workmen came along and helped from the top terrible to say though it is , yeah , never mind , they get over it |
| 30 | He slapped his hands together and beamed around the overcrowded cockpit . |