Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two minutes later , a truly magnificent swan , as white as snow , came swooping in and landed on a branch nearby . |
| 2 | She broke in and radioed for a doctor to certify death , asked other police to tell next of kin — and summoned a funeral director . |
| 3 | The book should have been in Tollemarche 's only bookstore for several weeks ; however , when Hank casually sauntered in and asked for a copy , old Mr Pascall said it had not arrived . |
| 4 | Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic . |
| 5 | Creggan stooped down and hovered for a moment over the carrion . |
| 6 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |
| 7 | ‘ Being a wage-earner has nothing to do with it , ’ Susan was beginning , when the train slowed down and slid to a standstill in Exeter Central station . |
| 8 | She had begun to climb the bank when the four-wheel drive suddenly appeared on the rim above , bumped down and drew to a halt alongside . |
| 9 | They have missed it , they are n't on it , they decided not to come — ’ At the far end of the train a door swung open and a man climbed down and shouted for a porter . |
| 10 | others of the 105 Squadron Blenheims were less fortunate — Z7486 ( Sgts Mackillop , Nethercott and Entwistle ) were shot down and crashed into a factory ; Z7486 ( F/O Lambert , Sgts Copeland and Charles ) was hit by flak and last seen in flames heading further inland ; V7484 ( Sgts Jackson , Williams and Purves ) was also hit by flak but made it back to Swanton for a belly-landing . |
| 11 | We sat down and talked for a while before setting off towards Hawes , as the sun broke through the clouds and the dog pulled him downhill towards the cairns . |
| 12 | That night to Michelle Phillips he broke down and cried like a baby . |
| 13 | I slammed the receiver down and stood for a second , congratulating myself on how well I had done , all things considered . |
| 14 | He sat down and fumbled for a cigarette . |
| 15 | I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was . |
| 16 | 7 weeks ago , a fight with two men and a teenage girl in his home town of Banbury , allegedly ended with him being run over and dragged under a car for a quarter of a mile . |
| 17 | She saw it wobble , then it tilted , then it toppled right over and fell with a tinkle on to the table-top not twelve inches from Miss Honey 's folded arms . |
| 18 | But once she was on a downward incline she could only run faster and faster , squawking with fury as she lost her balance , till she tripped over and fell in a tumble of feathers and feet . |
| 19 | It 's an English-built rocker 's tool finished in cellulose all over and powered by a combination of a Seymour Duncan SSL-1 , a DiMarzio Fred and a DiMarzio PAF Pro . |
| 20 | A startled whinchat sprang up and over and disappeared into a hawthorn hedge . |
| 21 | ‘ We were both dancing and then she sort of fell over and went into a fit . |
| 22 | One of the boys tripped over and crashed into a tree |
| 23 | But the rivalry smouldered on and came to a head as the king advanced in years , without an obvious successor . |
| 24 | Slowly , he walked on and came to a street with a lot of theatres . |
| 25 | Hundreds of people looked on and cheered as a metal cast of the hammer and sickle emblem was ripped from the outside wall of the Supreme Council building . |
| 26 | He peeled one glove off and beckoned like a woman . |
| 27 | They managed to get it going , then took off and landed on a star . |
| 28 | It was when I took my jacket off and stood before a mirror and saw for the first time that all I was was a pair of scarlet braces , that I realised that evangelism was n't enough . |
| 29 | She broke off and sat for a moment staring in the fire . |
| 30 | Another car drove off but ran into a ditch at the roadworks and another young man was arrested . |