Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , a graphical function is generated and inserted on to an appropriately scaled graph . |
| 2 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 3 | The Rifleman brushed aside their questions , going instead to the main staircase which led down into the brightly lit chaos of the entrance hall where a throng of officers demanded their horses or carriages . |
| 4 | Tiring of the ceaseless flow of enthusiasm from Lionisers , Angelina wandered over to the proudly displayed visitors ' book . |
| 5 | As he did so , the three fire tenders roared in through the newly created gap . |
| 6 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 7 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 8 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 9 | The Pizza Express London league got off to an early start this year with a shortened programme . |
| 10 | Payton raced on to a well weighted pass from Wdowczyk , held off Bain , and then drilled the ball low past Mathers . |
| 11 | Later , as a result of other movements in the rocks , fissures opened up in the slowly solidifying granite . |
| 12 | I teamed up with a well known Devon journalist Phil Day , then on the Express & Echo , on an unofficial freelance basis . |
| 13 | Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery . |
| 14 | Police estimated no more than 30,000 party supporters turned out on the heavily barricaded streets , eager to be arrested by the 75,000-strong security forces . |
| 15 | Describing a large circle , she arrived back at the hastily abandoned camp , heart racing and a huge grin on her face . |
| 16 | A team of four assassins , made up from the now disbanded Security Police , have vowed to kill Mobuto while he 's here in America . |
| 17 | ‘ Very big , ’ Ashley agreed , as the BMW swung round in a perfectly described arc in front of them . |
| 18 | Half an hour later Lee had told Philippa everything , curled up in a newly acquired floral armchair in the living-room . |
| 19 | We motored down to Vyborg Castle Harbour , where we tied up by a newly built tax-free shop in the shadow of the 12th Century castle . |
| 20 | The old guard hit back at the newly formed , broad-based Union of Democratic Forces , which is organising tomorrow 's demonstrations . |
| 21 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 22 | The fact that they tapped in to the rapidly expanding European market undoubtedly helped the giant US firms to offset some of the effects of slow domestic growth . |
| 23 | ‘ But I was fortunate because then Stoddard took over as a professionally run and profitable company and I 've spent 11 happy years with them . ’ |
| 24 | Thus they were , in majority , from professional and administrative families , and grew up within the newly regularized ( reformed ) educational system of ‘ public ’ school and university . |
| 25 | Then he looked up towards the softly defined slopes , high above the village . |
| 26 | In fact , an explanation which went back to a biologically grounded disposition could in this case precisely avoid the invocation of rational collective agency , which is rather an intellectualist embarrassment to the story as Hume ( 1738–40 ) tells it . |
| 27 | Rain and Oliver went back down the badly lit stairs . |
| 28 | She looked back over the recently written unsatisfactory pages of her book , and there was no doubt that her mind must have been tired . |
| 29 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |
| 30 | Rincewind swayed back as a wildly thrown stool sailed past and smashed on the far side of the street . |