Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 2 | This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land . |
| 3 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 4 | There , he opened the case , took a trowel from it , and began to dig up bulb after bulb from a long flower-bed on the other side of a path near the fence . |
| 5 | Not content with his careful appraisal of eye , he produced from his rather torn and shabby coat , a small movie camera and proceeded to set up shot after shot of a narrow-gauge narrative . |
| 6 | Jerry Rawlings ( who had also staged a successful coup in June 1979 against the then military rulers , and had handed over power to President Hilla Limann in September of that year ) . |