Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 2 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 3 | Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , I helped him out with one scene where this Danish prince sends his betrothed Ophelia mad . |
| 5 | As the music came to a thundering climax , Damian bent her back over one arm , his tough face very close to hers . |
| 6 | Badoglio lost no time in advancing on the capital , Addis Ababa — from which the Emperor , Haile Selassie , had already fled to Britain — and entered it triumphantly on 5 May 1936 . |
| 7 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 8 | And then inside building we completely demolished inside , just sort of left the retaining walls and built it up from fourteen feet below the ground to five storeys , high , itself . |
| 9 | We wanted to check the accuracy of an intelligence test for horses , so we tried it out on six horses of known intelligence : three stallions and three mares . |
| 10 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 11 | He lifted himself on to one elbow , looking down at her ; a finger of light from the street-lamp outside crept between the curtains , touching her face . |
| 12 | He lifted himself on to one elbow and looked down at her . |
| 13 | It worked out electronically that it took a fish finger less time to defrost than a leg of lamb , and when your designer-label , calorie-counted tagliatelle was ready for eating , it told you so with five bleeps rather than the paltry three offered by the cheaper models . |
| 14 | It 's two nil to Notts , it 's stuff here because Tony scored and he had n't scored previously this season when he banged one in on eight minutes . |
| 15 | Suppressing a grunt of pain , Defries lifted herself on to one elbow and looked round . |
| 16 | She lifted herself up on one elbow and looked down at his , at his face drawn with sorrow and the love that would sacrifice itself for her selfishness — and so needlessly . |
| 17 | She played him patiently for two days before she hooked him , and reeled him in . |
| 18 | I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy . |
| 19 | Last night at Edgar Street Torquay turned them over with two goals in four minutes just before half-time . |
| 20 | Then you turned them over for twelve hours to the right , and twelve hours to the left , and up they go ! |
| 21 | The cigarette glowed again in the dark , and he hitched himself up on one elbow and ground it out on the earth . |
| 22 | Every time the woman was marking off the numbers Shaney was turning the card over , you know , she turned it over in six cards . |
| 23 | Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity . |
| 24 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 25 | He raised himself on to one elbow so that he could look down into her eyes . |
| 26 | ’ He raised himself sleepily on one elbow and switched on the light . |
| 27 | Grainne raised herself cautiously on one elbow , trying not to wake Raynor , and looked towards the door . |
| 28 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 29 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 30 | Now let's say let's say your mum came in and she said how many for this pizza and we said oh just the three of us and she cut it cut it up into three pieces three pieces all the same size . |