Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry folded his arms , smiled as if he knew better and strolled about the room . |
| 2 | ‘ Pech gehabt , ’ he said suddenly and broke into a grin . |
| 3 | Just then , a customer got up suddenly and hurried to the door . |
| 4 | Joseph tugged at his brother 's sleeve suddenly and nodded across the room . |
| 5 | The snow was falling thickly and poured past the window in blizzard proportions as the plane hurled itself into the Arctic night . |
| 6 | His fingers dispensed with the buttons on the front of her dress and his hands , warm and firm and so , so clever , slipped inside and teased at the lace of her bra . |
| 7 | He kicked gently and rose at an angle towards the ceiling . |
| 8 | I careered down the snow-slope below and sat in the shelter of a boulder to watch Roger abseil down the ice pitch , coiled the ropes and climb carefully down to join me for a marvellously welcome brew under the Shelter Stone . |
| 9 | He held the parcel out and then let it fall , and it had time enough to turn lazily over before it landed with a solid smack on the terrace below and bounced towards the rail . |
| 10 | I went below and peered inside the cabin — a tiny fixed table with divan-type seats on either side . |
| 11 | Then he shifted impatiently and gestured to the drawing-room . |
| 12 | He insisted on trying to go it alone and lurched against the bannister where he hung on for dear life . |
| 13 | Most came to terms with the constraints of the existing order but a radical wing refused to do so and dreamed of a society run on rational lines laid down by acknowledged experts ( themselves ) — a society they dubbed ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 14 | I rolled out of bed at eight o'clock and went to the bathroom where I turned on the taps for a hot bath . |
| 15 | She rose swiftly and went to the cubicle , where a nurse was straightening the bed and she asked , ‘ Where are they taking him ? ’ |
| 16 | They attended an opera together and flirted at a ball . |
| 17 | That night , they sat on the ice together and gazed at the sky . |
| 18 | She packed her bag together and drove like a maniac to the mikva . |
| 19 | They returned down a different hole and soon found a dry , empty burrow , where they curled up together and slept in the warmth of their own tired bodies . |
| 20 | The two catheters were taped together and passed through the nose into the stomach . |
| 21 | The system will be held together and policed by a franchising authority and a rail regulator . |
| 22 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 23 | But as she seized it in her hand , before her horrified eyes the dried petals fell away and fluttered to the floor , scattering like confetti at her feet . |
| 24 | She turned her gaze away and stared towards the river , watching the faint sway of the trees as their branches dipped and brushed against the water , but after a few too brief seconds she found her eyes drawn helplessly back to that window , and gasped . |
| 25 | She half turned away and stared at the horizon . |
| 26 | She looked away and stared at the fire again . |
| 27 | Prentice swung away and lurched towards the door . |
| 28 | She put her bike away and sauntered into the room . |
| 29 | The scarf came away and fell on the floor , twisted in a multiple S. |
| 30 | He backed away and looked along the front of the house . |