Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] and [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even across the Park beyond the main fence of the Zoo , over which the eagles could see if they braved the cold and stared out from the top of their cages , there was not a single person . |
| 2 | Walking over , he caught the grey and started back down the hill with both ponies . |
| 3 | He also suffered a gashed and infected back , four ankle sprains , torn ligaments and splinters in all ten fingers as a result of his athleticism in the show , which included crashing to the floor entangled in telephone wire and skidding down a staircase on his heel . |
| 4 | Do you know , even when he became an ascetic and gave up the pomp of court , even when he fasted , the Blessed Thomas could not abstain from his cups of claret . ’ |
| 5 | The doctors and nurses who brought the sick and wounded back to Britain have dismissed claims that the whole operation was a public relations exercise . |
| 6 | A lovely house Syon , whose occupants tended the sick and brought about many a cure . |
| 7 | A few shook themselves loose from the tangle , and pounded onward , others skirted the fallen and fell in behind them . |