Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat howled , dropped to the ground , and shot between Suragai 's legs and disappeared back inside Kiku 's yurt . |
| 2 | Then they have five days to sell the dog , make arrangements for the wife and kids and set off for Moscow 's Star City , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He opened his eyes and stared down into Michael 's face . |
| 4 | I opened my eyes and looked up at Mick 's grinning face , leaning into the entrance to the trench . |
| 5 | She opened dazed eyes and looked up into Rohan 's face . |
| 6 | He closed his eyes and went through in detail what he would like to do to the curly-haired tart . |
| 7 | He opened his eyes and sat up in bed as Anna came in holding a mug of coffee . |
| 8 | When he had finished , Dr Jaffery rose to his feet , brushed the dust off his pyjamas and came over to Olivia and me . |
| 9 | Unless she cut her losses and went back to England . |
| 10 | Earlier this year , in May , they voted for change , but when Noriega disavowed the election result the mass of the people shrugged their shoulders and went back to work . |
| 11 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 12 | As Magee watched she tottered down the steps and wandered off down Duncannon Street in the direction of the Strand . |
| 13 | For a few moments , Izzie kept piping , then allowed the recorder to drop from her lips and sat down beside Gabriel . |
| 14 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 15 | Taskopruzade and Mecdi assign this event to the reign of Bayezid I ( 1389–1402 ) , saying that as a result of a quarrel between Molla Fenari and that sultan , the former abandoned his posts and went off to Karaman where the emir gave him a salary of 1,000 akce a day and each of his pupils 500 akce a day . |
| 16 | As he had done before , Van Gelder spread out a sheet — in the passageway , this time — threw some more armfuls of clothes on to it , secured the corners and hurried up on deck . |
| 17 | He tripped and fell , scrambled to his feet and sprinted out of reach . |
| 18 | But he got the ball near the left edge of the green , flicked it confidently over the bunker to about four feet and holed out with ease . |
| 19 | Then he eased himself to his feet and scrambled back to Wexford . |
| 20 | She dressed and put on her shoes and went down to Emma 's flat . |
| 21 | Then the wind rose , fanning the few sparks left alive in the brushwood ; the fire flared into life again and gave them light to see by , and they broke apart from their terrible embraces and sprang off to blade-length and lance-length . |
| 22 | Undaunted , the Carlist militias — the Requetés — formed into columns and set out for Madrid , some 500 kilometres to the south , in buses , in trucks and on foot . |
| 23 | The other classic Ce Ce Rogers anthem lifted from the vaults and dusted down for rerelease . |
| 24 | Osbern of Eu , ignoring it , led his column of horse , hardly impaired , in another thundering drive through the streaming Northumbrians and pulled up above Thorfinn 's head . |
| 25 | Enter lively atoms of uranium-235 , soon stirred up by Punk-neutrons and slowed down by Mods . |
| 26 | Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 . |
| 27 | There was speculation in the sport that any IAAF assets held in America could be seized by the courts and handed over to Reynolds . |
| 28 | The war came , she was swept up with many others by the Germans and ended up in Ravensbrück concentration camp . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ Erika snapped her fingers and caught up with Karl . |
| 30 | A proof must be in the form known as " proof of debt " ( whether the form prescribed by the rules and set out in Sched 4 to the rules as Form 6.37 or a substantially similar form , see App C , form 34 ) and must be signed by the creditor or someone authorised on his behalf ( r 6.69(3) ) . |