Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were both slightly embarrassed at how they had clung to each other when the thunder crashed and how the daughter had nestled in , practically under , her mother 's nightgown when the sheeting rain slashed down around them , beating on the windows , just as when she was a little girl . |
| 2 | The wet grass glittered and near-by a nut-tree sparkled iridescent , winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind . |
| 3 | Then Olybrius ' fury flared and even the ground shook in fear . |
| 4 | Twelve channels of the reactor were refuelled before the outage began and then the fuel route was taken out of service immediately . |
| 5 | The lengthening day that pushes back your train Of clinging shadow , but keeps you here , has woken The seeds from the sleep they fell to when you went Down with them to darkness , the dread time When nothing could reach you , when you were hid away , And I retreated , sorrowing , hidden also ; And seed cast in the barren furrow rotted And trees withered and died ; and in the womb Of many a beast the embryo miscarried And then no germination ; and the earth sickened When in the womb of darkness you were stifled . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course not , ’ her son said and then the moment she had been dreading came . |