Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they disagreed about what this requirement actually requires when the " literal " meaning of a statute suggests a result that strikes them as odd . |
| 2 | I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist . |
| 3 | Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over . |
| 4 | His red-rimmed eyes peered from his grimy face anxiously and Anne said swiftly , ‘ It 's all right , Tony . |
| 5 | A FAMILY fled from their new council home yesterday — because it is infested with snakes . |
| 6 | He had a long , agreeable , supercilious face , dark eyes which dwelt upon his latest customer appreciatively but not offensively , and a general style that hovered oddly between the fastidious and the casual . |
| 7 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 8 | With Dawson it was his bulk which undoubtedly contributed to his premature death along with his broad , rubber face that became his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in true bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 9 | As the Trees bent to their grisly task again , there was a terrible cracking , bone-against-muscle sound and Balor screeched , sweat beading on his face and running down into his thick coarse neck . |
| 10 | But when nobody was there she changed to her normal self again . |
| 11 | Mr Brooke invited to his round table both the Ulster Unionists and the Democratic Unionists , along with the centrist Alliance , and the SDLP ( who have been the intended beneficiaries of the whole exercise since the Anglo-Irish Agreement — the actual beneficiaries have been the IRA ) . |
| 12 | He seized his chance and slammed into its rear wing again . |
| 13 | He and Minton had begun to lead almost entirely separate lives : Vaughan , anxious for a steady relationship , ate with his current boyfriend separately from Minton and led a quiet life behind closed doors . |
| 14 | Rose was silent in the car , but she drove in her usual manner only rather faster . |
| 15 | ‘ The luck came from your little friend here , ’ said Mr Hellibore , placing a hand on Mildred 's shoulder . |
| 16 | The solution came to her one evening when Nahum commented on her excessive pallor . |
| 17 | NEW pupils at a dog obedience class were all shapes and sizes when they arrived for their first lesson yesterday . |
| 18 | The aunts and cousins arrived for their annual break just after I had finished my finals . |
| 19 | ‘ He forgot about his bleeding arm long enough to get on a horse and run , ’ fitzAlan said grimly , retrieving his cloak and swiftly re-tying the pack . |
| 20 | It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block . |
| 21 | Phrase by phrase , syllable by syllable , a bewitchment seemed to be building up round Adam ; Ruth almost thought he shone with his own light now , like a flame . |
| 22 | And it showed in her own tone when , ‘ Had you telephoned last night you would not have done so , ’ she replied coolly , if not a shade haughtily . |
| 23 | But he climbed to his current pre-eminence only after spotting that the competitive battleground in the car market was shifting from styling and speed to quality . |
| 24 | That is what happened on our first day here . ’ |
| 25 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |
| 26 | If something happened to our young friend here , who would get Baskerville Hall and all its lands ? ’ |
| 27 | Another door opened to me last year when my daughter presented me with a gorgeous grandson , Simon , the same daughter who was instrumental in my first joining the Brownie Pack so many years ago ! |
| 28 | They certainly did n't realise for the length of that trip that they were travelling with another stallion , and the horses arrived at their new home safely . |
| 29 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
| 30 | Anyway , mum says I was restless when I returned from my second holiday there . |