Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 2 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 3 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 4 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 5 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 6 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 7 | Half of these mothers said they smacked only in anger ; the remainder used smacking deliberately as a disciplinary technique . |
| 8 | Rachel sank shaking on to the white sofa and buried her hot face in her hands . |
| 9 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 10 | Janine took a deep breath and all the fears and worries inside her came tumbling out like a great canker that had finally burst . |
| 11 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 12 | He had borrowed the ledger one night and read how a member of the Longford militia came galloping up on a foam-flecked horse to the doors of Carewscourt , yelling that the French and Irish had scattered Lake 's army to the four winds and that they were coming south and for everyone to flee , flee , flee if they valued their lives … . |
| 13 | But when the death coach came galloping out of the wild black sky to take Darby O'Gill to hell , it fairly put the fear of God in me ; more so than any clergyman before or since , however vivid their threats of eternal damnation . |
| 14 | The jockey 's race never stops … never stalls … so far this season Richard Dunwoody has had three hundred and sixty nine rides … he should be celebrating his century of winners any day … only one man can catch him and stop him and that 's Peter Scudamore … at Wincanton this week the reigning champion came galloping back with a winning treble … |
| 15 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 16 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 17 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 18 | The Woman 's voice came swimming out of a great blankness , forcing itself on him . |
| 19 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 20 | The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door . |
| 21 | In the second half , Joey Beauchamp came flying in like the daring young man on the trapeze . |
| 22 | Another volley of bullets came flying across from the German lines . |
| 23 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 24 | The stories of poverty and struggle got wilder and ever wilder in the publicity office until his family came crawling out of the Middle Ages on all fours ! |
| 25 | Certainly Leicestershire 's team manager Jack Birkenshaw has no doubt about the credentials of the 27-year-old quickie , whose career took off when umpire Allan Jones , a former fast bowler himself , advised coming in off a straight rather than a curved run . |
| 26 | They were just starting on it when two larger rabbits came running across from the other side of the near-by cattle-wade . |
| 27 | As Mary came running out of the front door it moved off up the drift towards the wood . |
| 28 | As Ryker came careering into the kitchen , Julie threw back the cellar hatch and came hurtling forth like a maddened trap-door spider , brandishing the hammer . |
| 29 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 30 | A woman came stooping out of the felt-covered fowl-house , half-way down the garden ( 19 ) . |