Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] and [verb] [adv] " 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 | Unfortunately , it hit the upright and went away to safety . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | A lovely house Syon , whose occupants tended the sick and brought about many a cure . |
8 | A few shook themselves loose from the tangle , and pounded onward , others skirted the fallen and fell in behind them . |
9 | He ceased to be secretary in 1876 , but remained a syndic and helped both the London Society for the Extension of University Education and the Oxford committee to begin extension work . |