Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [vb past] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stooped and scooped up the little dog on to her lap . |
| 2 | He stooped and picked up the cruel dagger which had nearly split his throat . |
| 3 | He stooped and picked up the torn halves himself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Finally she turned and disappeared down a short flight of stairs . |
| 6 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 7 | They watched the flames begin to lick through it , then turned and hurried up the spiral stairway towards the battlements . |
| 8 | ‘ He slowed in flight , rolled expertly , backed away and then stalled and hung on the thin wind all at once . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Luke laughed and put on an English accent : |
| 13 | The dog growled and worried over a chopped mound of horsemeat in an earthenware bowl with ‘ Dog ’ on it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They listened but heard only the steady rain . |
| 16 | She leaned and opened up a flat box . |
| 17 | Anne chuckled and looked only a little abashed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Wolsey smiled and pulled out a gold-edged handkerchief to wipe his nose . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He stood and picked up the small bowl he had brought , walking through to her bathroom to empty it . |