Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 2 | Cruickshank countered that getting out an developing stronger internal communication has been one of his priorities . |
| 3 | She stooped and scooped up the little dog on to her lap . |
| 4 | He stooped and picked up the cruel dagger which had nearly split his throat . |
| 5 | He stooped and picked up the torn halves himself . |
| 6 | James inaugurated the modern or as it is sometimes called , the ‘ modernist ’ novel in England , a kind of fiction which , in pursuit of a more faithful representation of reality , attenuated or eliminated altogether the authorial narrator . |
| 7 | He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves . |
| 8 | Finally she turned and disappeared down a short flight of stairs . |
| 9 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 10 | They watched the flames begin to lick through it , then turned and hurried up the spiral stairway towards the battlements . |
| 11 | ‘ He slowed in flight , rolled expertly , backed away and then stalled and hung on the thin wind all at once . |
| 12 | Traditional Hawaiian society only began to fall apart when the godhead became detached from the environment : when Captain Cook arrived and ushered in a foreign idol , ubiquitous , omnipotent , immortal , but disembodied , absent , invisible . |
| 13 | The attendant giggled and came back a few minutes later with another bowl of rice and chicken , which Myeloski despatched with his customary enthusiasm . |
| 14 | Stair was Alastair , Neil 's older and only brother , and was usually called ‘ poor Stair ’ because he had drunk , gambled and wenched away the small remains of the Cochrane estate , most of which his father had already dissipated before him . |
| 15 | I asked while cutting up a British Telecom van — rather niftily I thought . |
| 16 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 17 | And er he advertised and got quite a few . |
| 18 | Luke laughed and put on an English accent : |
| 19 | The dog growled and worried over a chopped mound of horsemeat in an earthenware bowl with ‘ Dog ’ on it . |
| 20 | And they did n't stop until he heaved and brought up a great deal of liquid into the bowl that Peggy was reluctantly holding . |
| 21 | It looked and tasted exactly the same as the previous day 's meal which I had sampled in the Superintendent 's office — a medium-hot vegetable curry containing a mixture of root and leafy vegetables . |
| 22 | Then he 'd write long letters to Richard , telling precisely how long the train journey took and describing colourfully the other people with whom he shared the carriage . |
| 23 | They listened but heard only the steady rain . |
| 24 | She leaned and opened up a flat box . |
| 25 | Anne chuckled and looked only a little abashed . |
| 26 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 27 | Wolsey smiled and pulled out a gold-edged handkerchief to wipe his nose . |
| 28 | Lord Templeman said that sweeping aside the public interest factor without any trial would have ‘ established a ‘ charter for traitors ’ to publish on the most massive scale in England whatever they had managed to publish abroad' . |
| 29 | Edna often took Celia down there , carefully going first and waiting while the little girl slid or scrambled down the awkward parts of the cliff into her waiting arms . |
| 30 | He stood and picked up the small bowl he had brought , walking through to her bathroom to empty it . |