Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 2 | The gates led right onto a busy road , there were some derelict public loos next door and a boating lake opposite . |
| 3 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 4 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |
| 5 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 6 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 7 | If we claim our interest is to focus on the writing produced only by a sophisticated elite , and that we determine the best literature is that which , in terms of generic structure , subject , and eloquent rhetoric , concerns itself with the preoccupations of males who have a high social and political standing , then the traditional canon will serve the majority of our needs . |
| 8 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 9 | I had , for the previous fifteen years , enjoyed the privilege of living in a Christian community where the charismatic question had been a lively issue , and where ‘ charismatic ’ and ‘ non-charismatic ’ ordinands lived together in a high degree of mutual trust and love . |
| 10 | The four of them — Simenon , Denyse ( re-named Denise ) , Tigy and Boule — lived together in an exhausting menage a quatre until Denise became pregnant and Simenon demanded a divorce . |
| 11 | ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells . |
| 12 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 13 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 14 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 15 | When invited to lecture at Cheltenham Art Gallery he merely read aloud from a printed copy of his talk , Speculations on the Contemporary Painter . |
| 16 | Even Shirley Christian 's relatively cosy interview with North for the New York Times on December 1st — an interview that gained in suspiciousness and oddity because it was the last North gave for two years — plunged suddenly into an action-man world . |
| 17 | Once again , the desirability of clear terms of contract , coupled perhaps with an unambiguous job description , is plain . |
| 18 | The King 's surprise changed slowly to an amused smile , then suddenly he began to laugh loudly . |
| 19 | Trusting to things mechanical for the second time today , he sank below on a hydraulic platform designed for wheelchairs . |
| 20 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 21 | Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan . |
| 22 | In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment . |
| 23 | The reporter thanked him , and the camera tracked him as he trudged over to the other members of the team and they headed together towards a dark crack in the hillside . |
| 24 | His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner . |
| 25 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 26 | Luke 's eyebrows drew together in a thunderous bar . |
| 27 | Her brows drew together in a formidable frown . |
| 28 | His brows drew together in a sudden spasm of irritation . |
| 29 | All manometry tracings and radionucleide transit curves were coded and analysed together in a blinded fashion after the study was closed . |
| 30 | Yesterday 's explosion occurred soon after an express train from the northern city of Jammu had pulled up at Sealdah , Mr Biswas said . |