Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb past] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His red , lumpy features were transfigured and he stopped being a badly assembled mass of fleshy fragments and became instead a vital man . |
| 2 | After gobbling up whatever I could find in the house , I crept into bed and pulled the blankets over my head in a vain attempt to stifle the mocking voices and shut out the ugly visions . |
| 3 | She settled the loaded tray on Nicandra 's knees and shook out a white napkin . |
| 4 | After slipping the clip carefully into her anorak pocket and zipping it closed she descended the steps and scooped up the fallen FN FAL . |
| 5 | Spitting it on to the floor , he raised the half-empty bottle to his lips and drank down the fiery vodka in great gulps , as if to drown the useless curses which rose in his throat . |
| 6 | A PUNTER reached into his pocket for his keys and pulled out a forgotten betting slip worth £10,000 . |
| 7 | In the follow-up work , which continued for several weeks , the class worked on the design of castles inventing all manner of ingenious devices to prevent unwanted intruders or attackers getting in , went on a site visit to a castle , produced drawings and models and carried out a great deal of oral work , all inspired by the original story . |
| 8 | She reached between her feet and dragged out a wizened melon . |
| 9 | The dry bracken crackled beneath his feet and gave off a pungent aroma . |
| 10 | Her face became twisted and not so pretty , and as her voice grew louder it lost its cultured tones and took on a snarling harshness . |
| 11 | An indication of the expectations the Act has aroused among fund managers can be gauged from the fact that , just over a year ago , merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson decided to bring together previously dispersed skills and set up a specialised division , headed by Rupert Marlow , to look after their charities fund management . |
| 12 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 13 | Before leaving the ground floor , make your notes and sketches and set out the approximate costs of making good the defects and of any necessary alterations . |
| 14 | The church began in late Saxon times and developed over a long period , finally being made redundant in the 1960s , when part of it collapsed . |
| 15 | Other whaling nations recognised the destruction of whale stocks and set up the International Whaling Commission in 1946 to control international whaling , Just when Japan was developing her whaling industry to full commercial efficiency . |
| 16 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 17 | Twoflower hung on as best he could as Ninereeds swooped through a succession of caverns and soared around a spiral staircase that could easily have accommodated a retreating army . |
| 18 | The royals will try to shrug off their problems and put on a good show for Margaret . |
| 19 | Collaborative research and cross-licensing of patents : for sound reasons — high fixed costs , economies of scale , and risk-sharing — firms may pool research and development ( R&D ) resources and set up a common R&D agency . |
| 20 | I climbed the two flights of stairs and walked down the rickety balcony which led to Ellen 's small end room . |
| 21 | A test showed that the frequencies of the three possible types of transition did not differ significantly from the values expected if the identity of a cone were independent of the identity of its neighbours and reflected only the absolute probability of that cone type ( ) . |
| 22 | She turned away , fumbled in her skirts and drew out a gleaming coin . |
| 23 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 24 | It must be made perfectly plain that if a man in this position chooses to deceive the court and his legal advisers and put up a false story which had the result of reducing his sentence of imprisonment , the Court would not intervene . |
| 25 | He never found work , made no male friends and had only a passing acquaintance with people in a local pub , including the 20-year-old barmaid . |
| 26 | Tell your friends and put up the enclosed poster where it will be seen . |
| 27 | It was getting dark so he pulled the curtains and put on the overhead light . |
| 28 | She balled her fists and fought down the growing desolation inside her . |
| 29 | In 1063 the Pisans made a lightning raid on Palermo , destroyed some ships and carried off a handsome booty . |
| 30 | But FT-SE shook off the blues and notched up a 29.5-point leap to 2687.8 . |