Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He placed a small amount of the substance in his hand and one by one the worshippers knelt down and licked it like hungry animals . |
| 2 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 3 | ‘ If I came along and accused you of sharp practice , you 'd be righteously indignant . |
| 4 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 5 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
| 6 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 7 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 8 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 9 | He stirred a pot of paint , dipped a brush in the paint , bent forward and applied it in slow strokes to the sheet of card in front of him . |