Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 2 | In August he went again to Switzerland , and for a week in September he looked after his grandniece who had travelled to London to see him ; but then he contracted athlete 's foot and had once again to enter a nursing home . |
| 3 | The biggest of the children , a girl with a sweet , oval face and a stout stomach that strained the buttons of her green print dress , handed the baby she was carrying to a smaller sister and stepped eagerly forward to stand beside Martha . |
| 4 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 5 | Then she raised her head and shouted loud enough to make the man on the other side of the river glance towards them , ‘ With every day they waste , ’ before adding in a murmur : ‘ The thread Sam 's life hangs by grows thinner and thinner . ’ |
| 6 | Ace ran through rain that hissed like radio static , through mud that sucked at her heels , through rolls of smoke that cloaked the camp with the darkness of night and parted only occasionally to reveal nothing but clouds , almost as dark , racing across the sky above . |
| 7 | He picked up his fluted ball pen , crossed out some words , found a clean sheet of paper and began once more to write . |
| 8 | He reminded those who felt such concern that " since the war , Japan has dedicated itself to a purely defensive posture under our peace constitution and vowed never again to become a military power such as might pose a threat to other countries " . |
| 9 | The coachroof is of moderate height and carried right forward to wash into the deck at the after edge of the anchor well . |
| 10 | He cleared his throat and turned away delicately to allow her to use the hanky . |
| 11 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |