Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 2 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 3 | Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr . |
| 4 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 5 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 6 | His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients . |
| 7 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 8 | When we saw Helen Stoner 's light , Holmes and I got in quietly through the window . |
| 9 | It 's alright when I first got in then after a while my legs all started going wobbly . |
| 10 | Er other thing , and they lived down there opposite the garage , that was the electricity board house then . |
| 11 | We taxied in close to the runway and were all pushed down the exit ladder to make a sprint for the terminal building ; no automatic concertinaed walkways here . |
| 12 | He cruised along contentedly on the bridle until being sent into the lead a quarter of a mile out and then galloped on resolutely to win by one and a half lengths . |
| 13 | The cart moved on downhill to the toll-gate . |
| 14 | Davenport took a pass from stand-in central defender Ian Sampson deep in the Boro half and moved on menacingly towards the edge of the box where he unleashed an incredible right-foot shot which flew , true as an arrow , into the top left hand corner of the net , inches outside the despairing hands of goalkeeper Stephen Pears . |
| 15 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 16 | For some time all three moved on quietly over the grass , while the shadows grew stronger and the wood-pigeons clattered among the distant trees . |
| 17 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 18 | As the regime 's dependence on the Islamic fundamentalists became more and more pronounced , it cracked down hard against the threat of opposition , whether from the left and the unions or from within the military ; following alleged coup attempts in April and September 43 officers accused of involvement were summarily executed [ see pp. 37367 ; 37703 ] . |
| 19 | Softly , he sighed , drew in deeply on the cigarette , blew the smoke languidly towards the leafy canopy and said : |
| 20 | She seemed to have dropped her voice and moved in closer to the phone as if to avoid the chance of being overheard . |
| 21 | We moved in closer to the stream and , attracted by something ( though now I have no idea what ) I went to the stream edge . |
| 22 | C. S. Lewis was given rooms in New Buildings and moved in shortly after the end of the summer term , 1925 . |
| 23 | Lynagh , helped off just before the interval , failed to score for the first time in 60 Tests , but new goal-kicker Marty Roebuck was cool as he amassed 17 points from three penalties and four conversions . |
| 24 | Chuck hesitated as his father moved off unsteadily towards the thicket , and at that moment Devraux and the Moi trackers entered the glade . |
| 25 | The rugged mountains rose up straight from the river banks and were shaded in greens and browns with gashes of copper where erosion has taken its toll . |
| 26 | Wild brown hills of heather and bracken rose up steeply behind the house , just beyond a red-jewelled fuchsia hedge and a grove of mysterious scrub oaks . |
| 27 | Guido drew up abruptly at the side of the road . |
| 28 | And he moved up here after the war , World War One . |
| 29 | The largest summering group is found at Beachy Head , where up to five were noted prospecting in 1961 , and numbers built up steadily to a maximum of 38 apparent pairs in 1972 . |
| 30 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |