Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 2 | The policeman on duty was a different one but he seemed to have already struck up a friendship with Fenella . |
| 3 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 4 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 5 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 6 | Then as if the whole world had hunched over to block out the sun , the sky becomes as black as coal . |
| 7 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 8 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 9 | Did he seriously believe that she had set out to break up a woman 's marriage ? |
| 10 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 11 | Britain , as the largest of these , had stepped in to sort out the country 's chaotic finances . |
| 12 | Les Holliday , with some intelligent distribution and accurate touch finding , established a measure of early control for the home side , who took the lead through Wilf George , after David Holmes had worked diligently to set up the chance . |
| 13 | Napoleon III 's ministers had worked hard to bring about the visit — not merely because it was in support of the Emperor 's policy but also , it was hoped , to distract him from his privately announced intention of himself going to the Crimea . |
| 14 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 15 | But on-loan keeper Dave Beasant had to move fast to keep out a cross-come-shot from Hammers stalwart Alvin Martin . |
| 16 | Broomhead had managed partly to knock out the large dent in the horn but he had taken off a fair amount of paint in the process . |
| 17 | After two hours ' work , I had managed only to hack out a shallow hole hardly large enough to bury a tortoise . |