Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [vb past] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna slid behind the wheel of the Volvo and sat there for a moment , looking back at the ruins . |
| 2 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 3 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 4 | I never really listened to The Beatles and looked out for the guitar , I 'd just listen to the song as a whole . |
| 5 | Be glanced towards Kelly and slowed down for a moment before speeding onwards . |
| 6 | The attack began on 8 March and went well for the Italians at first . |
| 7 | I went out into Main Street and started off for the pier . |
| 8 | Henry and I reached London in early October and stayed there for a few months . |
| 9 | Ami Popper , a 21-year-old Israeli civilian dressed in an Army uniform and carrying his brother 's Army-issue M-16 rifle , drove to the area from his home in Rishon Le Zion and rounded up for a bogus security check a group of Gazans , whom he then sprayed with bullets , killing seven and wounding nine others . |
| 10 | John talked , quickly and urgently , while Patrick drove along the M4 , crossed the Chiswick and Hammersmith Flyovers and slowed down for the traffic in Cromwell Road . |
| 11 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |