Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [coord] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Productive activity was carried out by peasants , who lived on and cultivated the land which was controlled by the feudal lords . |
| 2 | He hopped in and unzipped the rucksack , taking out only the scope which he pointed back towards the lakeside . |
| 3 | I had spent four hours catching nothing and he simply swooped down and lifted a trout of at least 2lb from under my nose . |
| 4 | Charles got in and slammed the door . |
| 5 | He got in and pressed the button for the first floor . |
| 6 | ‘ I came to tell you something , but no one was here so I got in and took a look . ’ |
| 7 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
| 8 | I hauled back the wheel and the plane mushed down and hit the water . |
| 9 | Leila Williams ( a former beauty queen ) and Chris Trace were its virgin presenters , the show a seven-week experiment that caught on and gave the world John Noakes ' arse , the most famous shitting elephant ever , many an expedition to Ceylon , sticky-backed plastic , ‘ soldier dolls ’ , umpteen dogs , Sarah Greene ( cheers ) and a hell of a lot of jeeps paid for by old forks and ring-pulls . |
| 10 | In books , pamphlets and speeches women drew on and re-worked the languages of purity , religion , medicine and even mysticism to develop a critical feminist discourse . |
| 11 | But when he knelt down and tested the earth with his hands , some of the tracks seemed fresh . |
| 12 | The friar knelt down and tickled the cat between his ears . |
| 13 | At one point he knelt down and parted the heather with his hands , so sure was he that he had found it , but there was nothing but the scree and the tiny plants which grew amongst it . |
| 14 | Eventually they died and sank down and joined the compost at the base of the leaves which , in fact , helped nourish the plant . |
| 15 | They excelled in and developed the arts of building , of engineering and of town planning . |
| 16 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 17 | She bent down and took a grip of either side of a crate to steady herself . |
| 18 | The lad bent down and seized the foot but Beamish broke in . |
| 19 | Rosten bent down and wiped the sword on the back of Wolfe 's tunic , then straightened , facing Gosse . |
| 20 | The T'ang turned , then bent down and retrieved the book , finding himself strangely reassured by its familiarity . |
| 21 | When he reached the store he bent down and fondled the Labrador 's ears , his face softening . |
| 22 | Pushing up his sleeves over the elbow , he swilled cold water over his hands and arms , then bent down and sluiced the whole of his head . |
| 23 | Georgina bent down and scraped a piece of mud from her sturdy brown shoe . |
| 24 | Without warning , Lorton bent down and grabbed the edges of the duvet . |
| 25 | As the child turned her back to her , Aggie bent down and buttoned the top of the dress ; then she said , ‘ You hungry ? ’ |
| 26 | He bent down and put a hand in the water , and swore when an electric shock ran through his elbow and shoulder . |
| 27 | A khthon bent down and slid a tray across the floor . |
| 28 | I 'm not denying people 's right to do it , but politics is about power , and suppose the Social Democratic Party moved in and swept the board , what would we do then ? |
| 29 | Yet at the weekend , when the clocks went forward an hour at 1am , the police in Darlington moved in and closed the clubs an hour early . |
| 30 | While bystanders did nothing , Teresa , 12 , waded in and slapped a pair of handcuffs on the prisoner as he tried to escape . |