Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tines pointed up towards the neck , where blood began to gush out with the flow of the water . ’ |
| 2 | A shifta or brigand had stepped out of the bush , clubbed one of the men and made off with his rifle . |
| 3 | ‘ Mind this patch , it 's slippery , ’ Weasel warned as he traversed a landing where snow had drifted in through a broken skylight . |
| 4 | By that time , G. F. Milnes & Co. had gone out of business and they were all built by Brush . |
| 5 | At the review any lag which has developed should be identified and where necessary additional effort or resource applied to get back on programme . |
| 6 | When responsible citizens or policemen came rushing out into the road to grab at it and avert a disaster , Uncle Titch would leap up from behind his seat and pretend they just had n't noticed him . |
| 7 | It is a great mistake : Barbara has to give up her small tress-shop and the cosy flat above where Percy liked to come round in the evenings ; while Percy , lacking that place of resort , now leaves her alone and goes out to play billiards . |
| 8 | The final outfit was one that Alison had brought along with her . |
| 9 | Basically that David had moved out of Plaistow Grove to leave her on her own to die , to live with the fancy whore from America , and yet on other days , of course , I was perfectly lovely and would come and shop with her and do everything . |
| 10 | But we stuck with the same tune that Wally had come up with . |
| 11 | In my talk I mentioned a number of specific things that Scott had brought about for Scotland as the result of his friendship with George IV . |
| 12 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 13 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd guessed that Downes wanted to go back to his car to hide something , so I played along with all that hearing-aid rubbish . |
| 15 | I could also see the rock that Neil had pointed out to me , still half out of water . |
| 16 | Indeed , this week was the first time that Graf had joined up with Kohde-Kilsch since the Olympics . |
| 17 | He had almost decided that Marie had run out like that because she had found Bella dead or dying . |
| 18 | Subsequent reports said that rescuers had recovered up to 180 bodies from the wreckage . |
| 19 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 20 | About eleven I noticed that Nigel had dozed off with a smile still on his face . |
| 21 | Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States . |
| 22 | Two of the walls were covered with his drawings and paintings and on one wall were shelves that Tom had fixed up for his clothes and treasures . |
| 23 | Swainson 's original contract called for him to produce volumes at three-month intervals ; he had already done preliminary work for his abortive encyclopedia , but even so the rate of production envisaged is astonishing , and it is not surprising that Swainson failed to keep up with his timetable . |
| 24 | The Tokyo stock exchange fell to its lowest level in 3½ years on Sept. 28 on unfounded rumours that war had broken out in the Gulf . |
| 25 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |
| 26 | An initial press release from the Atomic Energy Authority ( AEA ) said that radioactivity had blown out to sea . |
| 27 | That fish came zooming up to the top then , to see what you were doing . |
| 28 | The reality , of course , was that Rákosi intended to hang on to power . |
| 29 | ‘ You draw good pictures , ’ said the boy , turning over the pages of the note-book till he came to the whole page drawing of a pheasant , the cock pheasant that Philip had coloured in at home . |
| 30 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |