Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Na , na , na , baby ’ ducking his head down and shaking it , his elbows bent up and his clicking fingers held high behind his ears , while he footed round the room . |
| 2 | She dodged sideways but her frozen muscles would n't respond and she half fell , clawing upwards again like an athlete on the starting-block but another shot scorched through the mud in her hair and she slumped to her knees in despair . |
| 3 | ‘ Bore da , miss , what can I get you ? ’ he asked pleasantly and his blue eyes looked into hers with obvious admiration . |
| 4 | Her voice trailed away and her blue eyes widened . |
| 5 | His rounded shoulders collapsed further and his timid eyes quested to right and left to avoid her gaze . |
| 6 | He probably revised it as it went along and his recurring use of various kinds of lists as a basis for the structure of the work may well reflect Dr Battie 's influence . |
| 7 | I looked up but his terrible face was hidden in the shadow of a helmet . |
| 8 | And so off I went then and me first job was at the Dye Works , but just at the shop delivering , as a delivery boy . |
| 9 | Two more days went by and my little Angels left the slate . |
| 10 | Her face lit up and her amber eyes danced with golden lights . |
| 11 | Sarah 's eyes lit up and her pale skin coloured to a pleasing pink . |
| 12 | Deciding that captaincy was affecting his batting , he stood down in favour of Fletcher for a season , resuming again in 1989 when the county did well but his own form was fairly ordinary . |
| 13 | David 's mother smiled then and her lovely face looked suddenly young and for a moment hardly tired at all . |
| 14 | Time after time I ran away and my social worker could see that I was n't happy . |
| 15 | she married again and her second husband died |
| 16 | At some stage he married again and his second wife predeceased him . |
| 17 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 18 | All three individuals resided abroad and their precise whereabouts were unknown to US officials . |