Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journey to Calcutta took some hours , and when we arrived the Army met us and wanted to put us all in to some barracks , but I protested and rang up the Bishop , Foss Westcott , and asked if he could advise me what to do as Margaret by this time was very ill . |
| 2 | I undressed and turned out the lamp , then stood a moment by the open window . |
| 3 | The Chapman I knew and observed over a decade and more seemed to me never to have outgrown his background , his appetites , his ambitions or his selfishness . |
| 4 | I jumped and slid down the slope of the dune into its shadow , then turned at the bottom to look back up at those small heads and bodies as they watched over the northern approaches to the island . |
| 5 | She stopped and sucked in a breath . |
| 6 | She stooped and scooped up the little dog on to her lap . |
| 7 | She stooped and picked up the post . |
| 8 | Finally she turned and disappeared down a short flight of stairs . |
| 9 | She turned and switched on a lamp . |
| 10 | ‘ A , ’ she repeated and handed back the chalk . |
| 11 | She swallowed and fought back the tears , dashing her hand over her eyes . |
| 12 | " Oh , Sir Dermot , you know I 'm Lally , " she laughed and helped out the moment with sly ease , loosening the way through Nicandra 's formal how-do-you-do 's . |
| 13 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 14 | She leaned and opened up a flat box . |
| 15 | Instead she stretched and lay back a little , laughing softly . |
| 16 | I 'll come , ’ she said and put down the receiver to meet two pairs of eyes that looked so astonished that she burst out laughing . |
| 17 | ‘ Thank you again , ’ she said and handed back the now empty can , ‘ but I 've got to find my friend , the weirdo in the hat . |
| 18 | She glared and banged down the iron pan she had taken from the fire , then lifting the lid allowed a huge cloud of steam to escape into the air . |
| 19 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 20 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 21 | She crouched and put out a hand . |
| 22 | In essence , the Lady of the Hearth represents the way in which we choose and set out a bounded space in which to live , the fire we light at its centre , and the way we use the heat which the fire provides . |
| 23 | Let me try and set down the opposing points of view . |
| 24 | They dug and blasted out the ores from thin , but rich , mineral veins . |
| 25 | They turned and went up the flight of stairs , a frieze of well-behaved actors . |
| 26 | He gibbered and choked over an appeal for mercy . |
| 27 | He agreed and thought up a device . |
| 28 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 29 | He bent and scooped up the bike , wheeling it along with them , and Jenna became aware of other eyes besides the dark ones that had looked into her own . |
| 30 | He bent and scooped up the tin with the barrel of the revolver , and held it high . |