Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car , already doing eight-five , roared up to over a hundred . |
| 2 | I came out at at the wrong time . |
| 3 | " It 's all right , " he conceded as they came out from between the decaying buildings and the green hoardings , " but … " he smiled and looked at Slater , " do n't give up your day job . " |
| 4 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 5 | The robbers , described as Afro Carribean , made off with with an unspecified amount in cash and jewels . |
| 6 | His head nodded up from among the pink clover flowers . |
| 7 | It would , of course , be unthinkable to actually put down in print what Rex and Laura got up to during the next hour . |
| 8 | Some of the wacky and wonderful things people got up to in the last ITV Telethon 2 years ago . |
| 9 | No tales about defectors and what the Brits got up to in the Cold War . |
| 10 | Finally he walked out from under the dusty cloth and rubbed his hands together . |
| 11 | Just then , a big grey wolf stepped out from behind the large green plant . |
| 12 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |
| 13 | The voice of Mrs Plant called out from behind a lighted upstairs window , wanting to know whom her husband was talking to . |
| 14 | This immensely ambitious programme was what he started out on in the early nineteen hundreds and it was this which , with the assistance of A. |
| 15 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 16 | She offered a black Balkan Sobranie for the light I offered and only then looked up from under the wide-brimmed black hat she wore . |
| 17 | Mrs Tibbs looked out from behind the tall mirror she was carrying to see what the commotion was . |
| 18 | First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries . |
| 19 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |