Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shepherd switched the hologram off , then reached in and lifted the flexible plate up . |
| 2 | Joe looked in and saw a dark stairway . |
| 3 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 4 | I looked in and had the biggest shock of my life . |
| 5 | He reached in and wrenched the little bundle of plastic bands out of my hands , and I sat there , silent , watching as he fumbled the bands into position with the little cup to hold the weapon under his right armpit . |
| 6 | When I did return , I locked myself in and heaved the great oak table against the door and fastened the windows . |
| 7 | I was just going out when a man came in and asked the same question . |
| 8 | She still had n't found an answer when the housekeeper came in and served the first course . |
| 9 | I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen . |
| 10 | Oh then she come straight in and cornered the bloody paper . |
| 11 | It ended in a fight — I hit him , he hit me — then the teacher came in and broke the whole thing up . |
| 12 | After dark the men of the SAS crept in and obtained the necessary tentage and equipment to set themselves up , including even a piano for the officers ' mess . |
| 13 | Never having read a word of Norse ( Old Icelandic ) before , Lewis plunged in and attempted a few lines of Laxdaela Saga . |
| 14 | Stock market sources said that the Hoare Govett buying dried up after about 60 million Ferranti shares had been traded , at which point Smith New Court stepped in and remained an aggressive buyer at 56p until the close . |
| 15 | She got in and held the door-open button . |
| 16 | Superb ‘ Ray has been superb in the last couple of games , and Steve came in and did a good job . |
| 17 | By means of the passwords ‘ peace and goodwill ’ the squad broke in and caught a considerable number of clients red-handed , red-faced and red in several other places as well . |
| 18 | She went in and bought a novel set in India , whose prose appealed to her , and the heat and dust and cinnamon smells of somewhere else . |
| 19 | Even as we spoke , a young lady came in and bought the little creature for fifteen pounds , hammer and all . |
| 20 | A DRINK-DRIVER mowed down and killed a young mother on her first night out since the birth of her son six months ago . |
| 21 | JOYRIDERS mowed down and killed a disabled woman in her invalid carriage yesterday . |
| 22 | A SPEEDING motor-cyclist who knocked down and killed a 73-year-old man was fined £2,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 23 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 24 | Springfield slid the aerial down and directed a relieved grin at the quizzical expressions on the faces of his watching companions . |
| 25 | I never sat down and played the same thing twice . |
| 26 | He sat down and saw a bifurcated path , simmering with gold heat round and under the rising , spreading blue-black-green down-pointing vanes of a great pine , still widening where the frame interrupted its soaring . |
| 27 | A little boy tugged at my skirt ; I looked down and saw a brown face with the sun on it , smiling . |
| 28 | Masklin looked down and saw the yellow truck roll to a halt . |
| 29 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 30 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |